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Jaunita 2022-03-24 09:03:02

This film is absolutely bragging when I understand it now, and I can understand it with the help of the "story". To say it myself, the answer I can give now is this: in the isolated and simple environment of the island, picture the states and interactions of each member of a family struggling with various mental illnesses.

The translation is very good, and I feel that the degree of restoration is very high. Extract a few lines.

[Last paragraph]

I'm scared, Dad! Reality shattered when I held Karin in the wreck.
do you understand me?

I understand that

reality is shattered, and I stumble out. Like a dream
Anything can happen, anything

I know

I can't survive in this new world

No, you can, but you have a reason to hold

on What is that? God? Prove it to me! you can not!

No, I can! You have to listen.

Yes , I would love to hear

. I can only outline my hopes. In this world, love does exist

A special kind of love?

All love, Minas. The highest, the lowest, the most absurd and the sublime All
kinds of

love The desire for love?

Desires and denials, trusts and doubts

And that love is proof of God's existence?

I don't know if love proves the existence of God, or is love itself God?

For you, love and God are one?

This thought saved me when I was empty and hopeless.

Go on , Dad. The

emptiness became wealth, and despair became hope.
Like probation, Minas The
death penalty is postponed

Dad, if it's true as you say. That God is always there for Karin because we all love
her Can that help her?

I believe so.

Dad , can I go for a run?

Go, I'll make dinner, see you in an hour

(Dad leaves)
Daddy finally talks to me

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Extended Reading
  • Winona 2022-03-21 09:02:46

    The small environment dominated by indoor plays and the time in the story within a short day form a closed and short-term effect. The external world is in conflict with the subconscious "two worlds". From family ethics through Freudian psychoanalysis to the ultimate question of the existence of religion and God, it can be seen that Bergman's answer to this proposition at that time was still affirmative. God is "love", which is the breaking of the cage of self

  • Jace 2022-03-15 09:01:05

    The wrestling in [Still in the Mirror] mainly comes from the two brothers and sisters. One of them represents the trend of regressing toward childhood, toward the womb, toward the mysterious and chaotic unknown, and the other through incest and undergoes a gradual artistic process. Mature. The father was trapped in a loveless emptiness. So the emptiness is deified as the spider god in the daughter, and the father finally juxtaposes love and God in the son. This first part dealing with the state of human existence after God’s silence finally uses love as a remedy for the pessimistic situation of mankind, and subsequent Bergman works no longer see such a happy ending.

Through a Glass Darkly quotes

  • Karin: Funny, you always say and do the very right thing... and it's always wrong.

  • David: We draw a magic circle and shut out everything that doesn't agree with our secret games. Each time life breaks the circle, the games turn grey and ridiculous. Then we draw a new circle and build a new defense.

    Karin: Poor little daddy.

    David: Yes, poor little daddy, forced to live in reality.