And this estrangement started from the warm concern at the beginning.
Karin cared about Maria, or Maria cared about Karin, and she stayed up all night. Agnes, who was lying on the hospital bed, thanked the sisters tenderly.
But something was wrong, too quiet and empty room, revealing the secrets of the three sisters.
Actors who played Agnes often played heartless and hot girls when they were young. And Agnes is also a rare and pure one in the play. The other two sisters are complicated.
On the surface, they are very harmonious and care about each other, but they are not. After being together for a long time, taking care of patients, the so-called look up and see, they can't control themselves gradually.
Maria seduced the doctor and killed herself with glass with Karin. The former was her husband's blood, gurgling from her neck, and the latter was her own blood, which spread from her lower body in front of her husband.
Even with the blood-red walls in the room. It is an unstoppable undercurrent.
The huge tension of the drama is leaking from time to time.
She, or she, cannot accept herself. hate yourself. want to destroy myself. Therefore, the other party cannot be accepted. Disgust has become a deadly knot, imprisoning their souls, each unable to play by itself, and unable to enter the other's world.
They hate each other, and they hate themselves. Because they are sisters connected by blood, what is the difference between them. When one despised the other, my heart was crying. When one rejects the other, I feel a cold heartache.
It's a man, the drama of a split inside. With several roles, the performance is clearly an inner secret battle. This person, Bergman, is also you and me, this is the depth a soul can reach.
Close-up of the face, unable to hide the secret face that fills the frame.
I can't bear to be stared at like this, even on the screen, I imagine countless imaginary enemies, and my thoughts come from all directions, and there is no escape.
Faced with such a close-up of scenes that are frozen and segmented with human faces from time to time, I instantly bring it into myself.
So when watching, it is inevitable to think of yourself. Think of the barriers that will never be broken between people.
The hardest thing for a person to know is himself. That being the case, why not others, and how to close the distance.
As Agnes became seriously ill, the conflict between Karin and Agnes was gradually exposed. The sickness of the patient becomes a metaphor, a footnote for the real sister relationship, and finally there is no cure for it, and it runs away.
Agnes' revival is a cruel trial. Besides, love is also separated from ghosts. The sisters turned around and fled without hesitation, not to mention the furious scolding. The soul is only stunned. The audience watched another real chapter. This continues to be a metaphor for the irreversibility of the relationship.
Bergman is a bit cruel, isn't it, relatives have no true feelings, only a servant, to comfort the wounded soul, without fear, with firm eyes.
Agnes' actor played the servant in "Smile on a Summer Night", who is sincere and bold and more glorious than the hostess. This role is now another servant's turn to be gentle. The servant Anna is like a virgin, with few words, just contribute silently. Bloodline, was eliminated cleanly. This is human love.
At the end, a few sisters used to play in the countryside. The freshness of nature swept away the repressed blood red in the room and replaced it with a dreamy green. There, that is where the memories finally stop, and it is also the director's yearning. It is only in nature that they become harmonious. This is natural love.
The blood relationship has become so heavy that it has become an unbearable light in life. Lower down, lower down, look far away, go farther, into nature, into the infinite human beings, and love again, and love is alive again.
Bergman's films are so cruel, yet so compelling. Distant misses, not speculative words when we meet, this is the lifelong riddle of Bergman and his parents. He is not even familiar with the children of his several marriages, and considers himself a failure, the origin is not from his childhood. With many movies, I have repeatedly tried to bridge and understand, but there is no prescription, but many people have resonated.
What is precious, is it blood? Seeing that it was repeatedly released contemptuously in the film and spewed out from the body. But it is indeed precious. Hot blood, bloody, blood is always red.
The red wall implies that this is a movie about family and blood.
But it was naked and bloody.
There were no answers, only shouts, only whispers, saying what Maria said over and over again - "Look at me, understand me, if possible, forgive me", which is what Bergman wrote in the book, he wanted to tell his parents.
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