If I can speak the tongues of ten thousand people and the words of angels, but have no love, I will be like a ringing gong and a ringing cymbal.
If I have the power of prophecy, and know all mysteries, all knowledge, and all the faith, so that I can move mountains, but have no love, I am nothing.
If I give all that I have to the poor, and give myself to be burned, but have no love, it will still be of no use to me.
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous; love is not boastful or arrogant,
Do not be rude, do not seek your own interests, be not easily provoked, be not reckless,
rejoices not in injustice, but in truth;
Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love is never ending. The power of prophecy will eventually cease to exist; the power of speaking in tongues will cease to exist; knowledge will eventually cease to exist.
There is a limit to what we know now, and a limit to what the prophets say,
When the perfect comes, the limited will be gone.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and thought like a child. When I became a man, I discarded the childish things.
We now seem to be looking in a mirror, blurred (original text: like a puzzle); then we will be face to face. What I know now is limited, and then I will know it all, as the Lord knows me.
Faith, hope, and love are the three things that persist today, the greatest of which is love.
------1 Corinthians chapter thirteen
*No knowledge of quartets and music
*No understanding of narrative angles
*Have not finished the trilogy
A good philosophical work may be like a Bergman movie, where everyone has their own interpretation.
love dilemma
father trapped in his circle
Karin trapped in her fantasy
Martin is trapped in the ambiguity of his self-knowledge of love and the object of his love
Minas is trapped in a cage of ignorance unique to youth
The four characters, as interpreted in some comments, constitute a quartet. The tension and compactness of the strings as if the struggles of the four characters are firmly tied together, but each plays a different melody.
The writer's father is obsessed with the completion of art, the death of his wife, the mental illness of his daughter, and his son's longing and concern. It seems that he does not move him, but it subtly makes him more and more trapped in his own circle, so he chooses not to face reality. Go to Switzerland and take your own life peacefully.
Karin's predicament is the most prominent. She has to decide which world to stay in. This annoying predicament and the environment she sees from time to time make her gradually lose control of her body and do things against her will. Karin is the clue character, and the moment she discovers her father's diary heralds the quartet's climax. In the modern Christian church, there are two terms, "Evil spirit possessed" and "filled with the Holy Spirit", when some viewers (such as me) thought it was a religious propaganda film about "everyone is drunk and I am alone" , Bergman can always bring people a spiritual turn. The moment the ending door opened, there was a huge roar of planes, and Karin started screaming. This scene is too absurd and dramatic, full of strong peculiarity and irony, will Karin, who has glimpsed the truth, be able to step out of the predicament?
blurry reflection
Some film critics say that Bergman has lost his faith in "The One Almighty God" in this film, but I feel that if we divide it by stages, Bergman is still in the same boat as "The Seventh Seal" and "Virgin Spring". ” the same exploration and questioning stage. He blurs the line between the devil and God once again, similar to the plot and the seventh seal in which the knight's bitter questioning of God was heard by death; the ignorant child who was killed after witnessing sin in the Virgin Spring. Combining the above viewpoints, I feel that the spider that Karin was waiting for was not "God was infected with evil and desire and turned into a spider", but it can be interpreted from two perspectives:
1. Karin seems to have made a choice in the battle between the soul and the flesh. In fact, this pursuit of almost completely abandoning the world is crazy and wrong, so she finds that the worship like desire brings her tightness. A tightly restrained spider. Just as Descartes used "madman" in his first meditation to describe those who think that the world they live in is absolutely false, this may reflect Bergman's criticism and worry about extreme beliefs, or a kind of alertness to himself .
2. The devil has quietly seized the seat of God, which is the blurring of the boundary between the devil and God as mentioned earlier. Does he exist? Does he not exist? Is there absolute evil and good in this world? As a system of thought, belief is difficult to prove, and absolute holiness and absolute evil do not seem to exist.
But maybe if you watch more movies and read more articles, you will change your mind.
5.9 Update:
They all want to live awake, so they try to do the same.
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