It turns out that the wiki has a very detailed plot summary, but I will write it first and then read it.
1. Innocence and Panic
are very normal on the surface, and they are a happy couple: Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson), both previously divorced, and the woman experienced the death of a baby in the first marriage. Both couples are professionals, the husband is a psychologist, and the wife is a lawyer, helping people with divorce. The lawyer. Has two daughters. The scene was interviewed and filmed, and two couples were interviewed. What a model couple. (Johan's father is a doctor, Marianne's father is a lawyer, both grew up in middle-class families)
Marianne, 35 years old , Johan, 42 years old.
The second couple is good friends of the previous couple: Katarina and Peter. The scene is that the four of them get together at Marianne and Johan's house. Katarina and Peter are a clearly problematic couple, and they talk Mentioned going to Marianne's office for divorce the next day. The couple's conversation was both "laughter" and worth savouring.
Peter said they were like a pair of crying babies in the house, Katarina needed love and comfort, and He himself, just waiting for Katarina to love him. (hahaha!)
The two have a factory business together, the factory is owned by the wife, and the husband messes up the business well. The couple have financial disputes. Katarina said, even if not because Money issues: you wouldn't let me go.
Peter: why you think you are so indispensable?
After dinner, Marianne and Johan are both talking about this pair of friends. Marianne said that they both use different languages to communicate and need a third language. M and J themselves because of Money, so that they can maintain.
Johan also has female colleagues in the workplace. When it comes to his poetry writing, he is not appreciated.
2. Sweeping under the rug
married life, Sunday is no longer a matter of two people, it is two people A family, it should be said that it is a matter of three families. My own family, the family's side, and the mother's side. Marianne wanted not to go back to her mother's house on Sunday, and talked a lot on the phone, and finally gave in to her mother. This scene At the beginning, the two of them just got up, Marianne looks like a cute girl, wearing pajamas, and acting like a baby with her husband.
A woman who is planning to divorce meets Marianne.
People who are planning to divorce, outsiders will always ask: Is there a third party?
Women ? Said: No.
In fact, it is not necessarily because there is a third party to get a divorce.
The woman said that the man has no lover, and he has no lover, Marianne asked her: Are you not afraid of being bored?
A woman would rather be lonely than a marriage without love. Also, she Finds that she may not even love her children anymore. She feels like a spoiled daughter.
Husband doesn't understand why she wants a divorce. She wanted a divorce fifteen years ago. Man, just never see the problem Where.
She said: life has stifled my potentialities.
Back to Marianne and Johan. In fact, they already lacked a little affection.
Johan: we don't and we don't give enough.
Marianne proposes a trip. Johan says: affection shouldn't be kept for vacation.
Their sex life is virtually non-existent.
3. Paula
Johan comes home earlier than Marianne expects, and Marianne welcomes him back happily (the two daughters in the movie are It never appeared on the screen, and there are no children in the whole film). They talked about Katarina and Peter as if they were not planning to divorce for the time being.
Then, it turned out that they might be divorced.
Johan came back early, in fact, because of the execution of Lee , ready to go to Paris tomorrow with my lover.
A bolt from the blue. A very sad night for both of them.
Ullmann's acting is amazing. The third part has seen several different levels of Marianne. Just talk, there is no chance for a man to talk.
Johan fell in love with a 23-year-old translator, whom he met at a congress. Her name is Paula. Since Paula is going to Paris, Johan said that it may be possible to go there. Six months, I don't know when I will come back.
Johan: Actually, I wanted to leave you four
years ago. Four years ago, talk about it?!?!?
Property, who will get the money... When a relationship gets in the way, a lot of men and women have a problem... It's the first time to talk about money.
Johan: I'll sell that boat, enough to support you three mothers and daughters...
And then Marianne begged him to give her a chance. Woman, don't ask! And this is not the time to beg! A lawyer who helps people get divorced is also guilty of this ill?
Marianne: Let me talk to Paula... maybe she will understand (haha! Face to face with a third person, why is everyone so stupid?!)
Women have another problem... just asking. Ask questions that shouldn't be asked. Maybe you and I (both couples have this experience), and even a lot of men have asked these stupid questions: Can I see Paula's pictures? And
then men Stupidly show her the photo.
Marianne: She has dyed hair... Her breasts are really attractive...
Twenty-three years old. More than ten years younger than her... Dead.
No. 3rd party Most clearly, because the wife is always the one who wins in the end. To a certain extent.
Paula has an erotic past. Twice engaged, many affairs. And know Johan will go back to his wife in the end.
Marianne's next stupid question is : how's sex? Not bad, right? ~ Oh, don't ask? But women always ask... and men always answer: Now it's good. All
these ignorance, can everyone resonate?
But at least Johan feels guilty. The two cuddled on the bed, Marianne: we both need some sleep. Very poor couple.
The next morning, Johan left. Marianne was very sad in bed. Not only one person knows. He was betrayed by his husband, and he was
betrayed by a friend. "Why didn't you tell me earlier?!" Marriage and life are turned upside down.
4. Pause ~ Vale of Tears
is also two parts of the movie. (The movie starts to divide this into the second part)
It's been a while since Johan left Marianne. When they came back, the two seemed to have a lot to say. During the conversation, Johan mentioned that he might accept a job at a university in Cleveland in the United States, and also said: I should go, nothing to keep me here.
Very Obviously, neither wife nor daughter is enough for him to stay in Sweden.
Marianne said: Then we're going to talk about divorce soon.
But men don't think that way. Willing to divorce, why?!)
Marianne took out a letter Paula wrote to her and handed it to Johan. Obviously, Johan and Paula are no longer in the crazy love stage.
Marianne felt that Paula "can't endure" hostility"
Johan: you believe in her?... you can say anything about someone, somehow it always fits.
This part is a turning point in the movie and another page in the relationship between the two. Old couples don't count, okay Friend? Ex-lover? Johan still has feelings for Marianne, physically. And Marianne has a love life of her own. But it's all erotic.
5. Illiterate the
divorce desk. Twice.
The madness of human life.
We are all illiterate, mental illiterate.
"lukewarm friendship"
"I'm free of you now"
mess? Or is it endless?
6. The middle of the night in a dark room is
another new page for the two of
them. Several years after the divorce. Everyone has their own other half and a new life.
It's very warm.
"The daughters have their own lives," Marianne told Johan.
Back at the old house, too many old things and contradictions have returned, it is better to find another place to spend a good time together.
Came to a dilapidated little hut owned by Johan's friend, Dilapidated and old-fashioned. But people are more important than place and environment. Marianne talks about her new husband.
Six main parts. Fortunately, it was written
. With so many levels, the interpretation of a woman in her thirties and fifties is so successful.
And the director is convincing again and again. It's really time to collect all his movies.
After the screening, outside the bathroom door When I was in line, I heard a woman in the back calling her friend: wow, the drama is so boring...
I immediately thought: she must have little experience in dating, and she must be unmarried! :)
Ingmar Bergman said that this film only It took four months to shoot, but it was his whole life. I don't think the movie should be missed.
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