What is the opposite of red? First question: what does red represent? Cruel bloody? Orthodox thinking? Gorgeous flames? A tingled nerve? Or, or something else?
Red is so unique. If the opposite of black is white, and the opposite of good is evil, you cannot explore the opposite of red. The red in "Shouting and Whispering" gives people a sense of explosion - an explosion released, but there is no sense of relaxation after the release, it is a kind of high tension. It feels like a peak experience. For myself, it is an inescapable tension. Black and white red tones, red is particularly dazzling.
Then, what is the opposite of indifference? Of course, there is another question: what is indifference? Indifference is to face a terminally ill sister but have no love? Facing her husband's suicide but avoiding it? Or, disguised when facing yourself? Maybe, maybe something else?
Indifference is horrible. If the opposite of love is hate, and the opposite of tolerance is blame, what is the opposite of indifference? Indifference is repression, indifference is non-participation, and indifference is even more terrible hate. Love or hate, tolerance or blame, at least, she still cares, or just pays attention, but indifference is to completely shirk responsibility and care - she told her sister, "whatever you do, it has nothing to do with me." You don't have to groan, you don't have to cry, you don't have to cry, because no matter what, I won't come near you, even though you are my sister, even though you are so miserable - look, how cold, how high you are, it's none of your business . Indifference makes the heart die, and the heart is dead to death.
What about the reverse? The opposite is warm. Anna hugged Agnes with a slightly stronger body. In her eyes, Agnes was just a sick child - fragile, eager to be noticed, and hoped for love. Looking back on the past, the three sisters also had a wonderful and warm time. At that time, the sky had warm rays of light, and the earth had gorgeous color residues. At that time, their lives were simple. At that time, they were still young.
The most ironic thing is that the three sisters who are the most elegant and the most sophisticated, the three sisters who have received high education, and the three sisters who wear fancy clothes, have such a hard heart; Anna, who has read many books, is dressed in rough servant clothes, but her heart is so warm and soft.
Red is just a color, a sting, a reminder, a consequence - is it telling us that death is sometimes not the most terrible thing, at least Agnes doesn't have to bear the indifference after death Consequences, you don't have to use shouting and pain to get the attention of others, and you don't have to be so humble and extravagant to ask for love, "No love, or death!"
Indifference is just a state, an attitude, an escape, a process— It may also remind us that the disease of the body brings pain and death, but at least it can be cured, but the disease of the heart can never be cured. Maria's indifference brings depression, death, and "darkness" to herself. and "despair", when in fact we have nothing but sunshine and hope.
Warmth is actually just a kind of temperature, it is healing, hugging, and light—it may not bring about a complete relief of the pain, just like Anna couldn’t let Agnes out of the pain, but at least, Anna let Agnes find Warm, feel the feeling of light.
A silent embrace has a silent power. Never asking for too much, just a hug at any cost. No matter how independent, everyone is a species that loves the sun. The world is already turbid, but as long as there is hug, as long as there is tenderness, as long as there is light, it will give us warmth. Go further, build a bridge, pave a path for each other, come to your heart. Whisper and fall in love.
A good movie is like a good book: when you enjoy or read it, it will be boring, even a little boring, but when you look back and taste it later, there are too many ideas and too many feelings— —A lot of pictures just appear, and the pictures you thought you had forgotten or ignored were originally stored in our minds, as if they were engraved, and they hurt us so much.
Bergman uses strong contrasts to show beauty and ugliness, good and evil, but he does not hesitate to sting us in the most cruel way - dazzling red, as gorgeous as fire, but it brings unbearable depression; wanting warmth Agnes, but she could only struggle to the death; Maria, who longed for more love, lost her love because she was dealing with it; Karin, who hoped for comfort, could only choose to abuse herself.
Depressed to the point of madness, in madness, but unable to shake off the indifference.
The sisters who should be whispering, are shouting, the terrible consequences of long-term repression, revealing bottomless disappointment and even despair, but there is also such a warm hope as Anna, the director at least left us a way to survive.
Director Bergman told us evil, told us indifference, and then created two cliffs without bridges, with no connection, no communication, let alone love, and even at the end of the film, no bridge was built. He didn't have to say what was the best, he just showed the bad side and we got scared - the bad side was too cruel.
He tells us bad things in a naked way, and stings us with blood-like red; but fortunately, he leaves us room for thinking, using "the opposite of bad", reminding us of good and good, whispering and communication .
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