marriage landscape

Shaun 2022-03-23 09:03:28

Yesterday, I set foot on Xiaoma Lu on Anfu Road for the third time and went to the Shanghai Drama Center to watch the drama "Marriage Landscape", a performance to commemorate the 90th anniversary of Bergman's birth and the 1st anniversary of his death. Bergman is undoubtedly difficult and dull for most people, and I have had the experience of watching "The Seventh Seal" that I can't understand, but when the master focuses on more mundane and normal thinking, those Shouting, struggling, passion becomes accessible to us, or at least understands the story, perhaps until we are middle-aged.
I don't know how many people who have watched the film have a terrible feeling about marriage, why women deceive themselves and annihilate their hearts in order to obey men, and men get tired and even run away because of the trivial life day after day until they are exhausted. Only after trying to sign the divorce agreement will they cheat on each other in a free identity.
Frankly speaking, I'm not completely unable to understand any part of it. On the contrary, there are still many plot details that can be resonated, and this may be the scary part. Bergman is completely aware of the marriage between the man and the woman. Any situation that may happen in the relationship, although you deny that the tragic track will be played out by yourself, you will find a mark that coincides with yourself somewhere unconsciously.
The master who has experienced five marriages may be completely disappointed in marriage, so he is so sharp and insightful, but it is too cruel.

When I got home yesterday, I had a discussion with S about it. S explained his box theory, meaning that it was enough to figure out the outer shape of the box. , When appreciating literary and artistic works, the most important thing is to appreciate the appearance presented by the director and discover the various consequences that will be caused in various situations and environments, and it is not meaningful to dig the so-called "things behind".
Whether the theory is convincing or not, it is only applied in "Marriage Landscape", which may be a kind of inspiration for us.
Don't define whether Bergman is trying to teach us that unfettered relationships are the closest we can get, and don't generalize whether true love is about holding your breath or chattering. These too deep and decisive notions of judgment just confuse our own thinking and feeling.
So, all we have to do is observe the "landscape". Seeing the contradictions, entanglements, back-and-forth and pain of a wealthy middle-class model couple of ten years contains all the problems that we may encounter in a dozen or even decades. So huge and ferocity unfolded before us.
If this grand marital entanglement is a mottled box, then we can accept it as the box itself, and trying to find any evidence from the box to draw any conclusions is actually arrogant arrogance.

I hope that saying this can bring a glimmer of hope out of Bergman's despair, laughing.

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  • Kaia 2022-03-28 09:01:13

    Don't stop me from giving Bergman, Liv Ullman, and Erland Josephson full marks. It is also a high-integrity work completed by several actors. A few scenes of a happy and broken marriage express the joys, sorrows and sorrows of all marriages in the world, and the plot is also one of the few Bergman works that I can accept.

  • Isidro 2022-03-19 09:01:11

    The part where John broke up with Marianti and cried cowardly in front of her chest made me stop sneering at this rational deception and weep like him. Although Bergman is always indifferent and withdrawn, even in his view, a person who is incapable of love will never be full and tangible. And his warmth probably lies in telling us that in fact many people are like this, you are not particularly sad.

Scenes from a Marriage quotes

  • Marianne: I felt inadequate at work and at home, and I was a washout in bed too. I was hedged in by all the griping and endless demands! Goddamn you! Was it so strange that I used sex for leverage? I was outnumbered, having to fight you, both sets of parents and society! When I think about what I endured, I could scream! I tell you this: never again! You sit there whining about conspiracies. Well, it serves you right! I hope you'll have it rammed down your throat that you're a useless parasite.

    Johan: You're being utterly grotesque!

    Marianne: So what? That's what I've become!

  • Marianne: Sometimes you ask such goddamn silly questions.

    Johan: Sorry. Are you angry with me?

    Marianne: I'm not angry, but I'm on the verge of tears. The trouble with me is that I can't get angry. I wish that for once in my life I could really lose my temper, as I sometimes feel I have every right to. I think it would change my life. But that's not the point. You spoke earlier about loneliness. That bit about being strong on your own. I don't believe in your gospel of isolation.I think it's a sign of weakness.

    Johan: What's wrong, Marianne?

    Marianne: It's so... humbling.

    Johan: What's humbling?

    Marianne: I think about you... and I think about myself and about the future. I can't see how you're going to cope without me. Sometimes I think in desperation, "I must look after Johan. He's my responsibility. It's up to me to make sure he's all right. That's the only our lives will be worthwhile."

    Marianne: I don't believe people are strong all on their own. You have to have someone's hand to hold.