Bergman is not shooting marriage, but everyone's life, everyone's loneliness. The real resonance may be just the assimilation of aesthetic inertia and aesthetic consciousness, and what people really have to face can only be their restless heart. The so-called resonance is nothing but a system established by a set of human emotions maintained by history and modern times. Those remarks about "non-existence" at the end of the play are another kind of loneliness after people's real awakening.
Loneliness is the norm, and everyone has different degrees of loneliness, different reasons, and different directions. It is somewhat pessimistic, but after all, life is so cruel and beautiful, and it is not just the interaction between people. I do feel that work, travel, dialogue between people and self, meditation, have become more important in this world. And the real complex human nature has been presented in this film by Bergman. The dependence accumulated by falling in love for ten years is also love from another angle.
This kind of love is pulled apart by time and events. Looking back, both parties have changed, but this kind of love is difficult to pass over time, and so is hate. We have been forced to accept it countless times, and it has become a habit. "A person cannot completely become another person", if it changes, I believe it is a monk.
New ideas will inevitably breed new contradictions, and familiar feelings will return to the old way. Even if the two sides hugged each other without speaking, as said at the end, behind this seemingly the most reconciling way, there is a turbulence that cannot be calmed in the heart.
This film is a very good observation. For marriage, for people's social distance, for dialogue with themselves, what people should do in a social environment, to retain self and dedication, it is a historical level film. It transcends the medium of film, showing sincere nature and the real complexity of human nature, making us believe that love and hate exist at the same time, love is time and dependence, hate is the part that neither side can cross or even accept each other, both sides hurt each other but Reluctantly being unable to leave is the complicated part. It's just because the two sides refuse to give in, they want to keep themselves selfishly, and they think that the other party can give some more stimulation, but that kind of self is not the real self.
This is Apocalypse Now, everyone should find their true self, everyone should progress, explore, expand boundaries, and everyone should keep distance, everyone should love, and accept, but at the same time It should also be hated and hurt. This is the picture of modern society. It may also be Bergman's inability to change, so it's pessimistic, but happiness is always more than pessimism, isn't it?
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