From the dream at the beginning of the film, the scene of death appears. It seems to remind us that this film is a story about a certain trial and death. It is this psychological temptation that makes the audience consciously enter the film and follow the An old man goes to recall to dream. When everything is calm in the end, and an aging man falls asleep in the warm light of the director, what will we think? Isaac, who had experienced several events and had several dreams on one trip, seemed to have become calmer. Many people will be relieved that we have followed him on trips and dreams, saddened by his aging look, and understand his loneliness. But the source of the dream, his inner anxiety, was not removed, but was overshadowed by the soft, human warmth of the night at the end of the film (everyone was reunited, and there were beautiful songs from young people outside the window).
The stubborn old man in "Wild Strawberry" didn't change on this trip. Unlike some critics who say "confession, repentance and forgiveness, Isaac's exploration is to seek the possibility of love and friendship, and the result is to accept life happily". His loneliness is innate, and in the passage of the dream exam, Isaac's verdict that being alone forever is just a late verdict. From the beginning of the film, he quietly narrates his loneliness, and does not feel that there is anything wrong with such a life.
His daughter-in-law also sees in Ewald aloof, lonely, lifeless, and trying to change, which constitutes the conflict in the film. This kinship loneliness, in Ewald's description, was formed as a child in a family tragedy. In fact, this is from Bergman's own life: "I tried to put myself in my father's shoes and seek an explanation for the painful dispute between him and my mother. I'm pretty sure they didn't want to have me in the first place, I was born from a cold womb , my birth led to a physical and psychological crisis."
But for Isaac, he was aware of his loneliness but never looked for the cause. In the fear of death, one of his trips is accompanied by memories and dreams. We see that he does not accept his fate as safely as he describes. He has the recollection of the beautiful love that he cannot get and the confession of the failed marriage. However, His punishment of solitude was nothing but self-comfort. He will be tormented by these things again one day in the future, so we can say that "Wild Strawberry" is the manifestation of the deep psychological pain of a lonely old man at a certain occasional moment.
The root of the first dream (seeing one's own corpse) is the fear of death, which is the normal psychology of aging people. And the memories of Strawberry Fields Irazak were not present, it was his re-weaving of the past in the old place. His absence seemed to imply that the good times were never his, that he couldn't see his teenage image. All the beauty is concentrated in the girl, he begins to get lost in this story, the pain of broken love is replaced by another love story, everything is so beautiful, the child shows a quiet smile in the cradle, which should be what he should have life. Irazak was greedy for the scene he imagined, but he was old, and the girl held a mirror to show him his aging face, "You are old, and my life has just begun." The second dream was the scene where he failed the medical exam and was tried and saw his wife commit adultery. This was a shadow in his heart. He didn’t know how to face it. In the end, he accepted his wife’s accusation, but It's too late, the guilt will always be with him.
These dreams are actually not difficult to explain. They are not to peep into Isaac's inner world, but to constitute the inner logic of the film. The dreamer has no secrets, no order, no consideration, and no rules, he is just narrating, nothing will change for him, he has not forgiven others or himself, can't see anything clearly, only in the dream The melancholy can't be wiped away. However, the audience thought that they had seen his spiritual journey, and thus had deep sympathy for him, dispelling the trial atmosphere that had been pervading in the film. So far, we have seen how the narrative of scenes and events created by a psychological film and the psychological demands of the viewers are intertwined and dislocated. This is also the reason for the different opinions on "Wild Strawberry".
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