When I browsed the short comments, I found that many people comforted the warmth of the ending, but because of the different understandings, I felt that not only could there be no warmth in the ending, but also made people feel the subtlety of love - a little mistake will turn into more hatred Terrible.
It should be said that the structure of this film is circular, and Eva's letter to her mother both leads and ends the whole story. In the middle, I have experienced all kinds of discord between the mother and daughter until it can be called a fierce confrontation, and the climax is the departure of the mother.
List these, and then look at the letter at the end of Eva, you can find that it is abrupt, or more accurately described, is a kind of emotional illogical. It's a bit like a fight between children. One moment they're bloody, and the next moment they try to stuff each other with candy.
Of course, it can be considered that this is because the relatives do not have overnight feuds, and the quarrel is not intentional. But? At least the estrangement between mother and daughter in the film (let's not discuss Helena for now) is literally protracted, and even when they meet one day after they haven't seen each other for many years, they have to take the opportunity to break out and clear up the love account. It would be too inappropriate to say that there is no overnight feud.
If one explanation doesn't work, change to another. For example, will Eva, with the help of imagination and reason, realize that what she did is inappropriate because her mother left, so she wrote an apology to her mother. It's the same mentality as when she first invited her bereaved mother to live there. Just imagine, at that time, she was no closer to her mother than when she talked about everything with her later, and her resentment was not much. At that time, she invited her mother to live with her in a friendly tone, which logically could not be explained. It was this unanimous "unreasonableness" that explained everything - it turned out that she could only love her and live in harmony with her mother when she was separated from her by a certain distance.
Hypocrisy, yes, that's the word you probably think of. Enthusiasm is not really enthusiastic, and it can't support the three days of face-to-face interaction. Only when hiding behind the text can you put on a smile and say good things. But thinking of this step, I have to be surprised - how similar she is to the mother she is accusing.
She was right that her mother Charlotte was a hypocrite. For example, before entering the door to see Helena, Charlotte was still very resistant, but the moment she stepped into the room, she seemed to wish to see Helena earlier, even a second earlier; Wa described how interesting a certain detective writer is, but in a blink of an eye, she sighed at the writer's books and sighed rubbish. etc.
Charlotte's first dinner at Eva's house is a long montage of contrasts. What confronted each other was their dissatisfaction with each other, and these dissatisfactions contrasted with their affectionate words and behaviors when they met. It's a pity that the first-time viewers often only read the estrangement between mother and daughter, and forget to pay attention to how similar their gestures, tone and mood are, which is almost to the point of tacit understanding. It's just that this kind of tacit understanding is not a pair of links, but is like a magnet with the same pole, repelling each other.
In Eva's accusation against Charlotte, a very important point is that Charlotte maintains her demeanor, but does not notice that this is also keeping a distance from her. Charlotte gives me the feeling that she concentrates on playing the piano and doesn't care about anything other than the piano. Many artists have this temperament, so many appear ruthless. They feel that everything else is a distraction, and they insist on keeping it to a minimum. Charlotte presets her two daughters as distractions. Her politeness is not only self-comfort, convincing herself that "I'm okay, not a bad person", but also telling her daughter "I'm good to you, don't complain about me."
Eva is sensitive, see through this. With this knowledge, she hates everything her mother does, and she hates more when she does more. And vice versa, no matter what Eva gets, she will never be satisfied. In this vicious circle of intimacy (Eva's close gaze and observation of Charlotte turns it into another sense of "intimacy"), she is not destined to grow healthily.
The husband once recounted Eva's confession - "I have never loved anyone, nor would I love anyone," which is true.
The resemblance between Eva and her mother is not only reflected in her attitude towards her mother, but also in the way she gets along with others. With her husband, she was never close to him. Bergman made this clear with the composition of the shot—the scene where her husband peeked at her writing from behind the door seemed familiar, but it was actually the way she looked behind the door to see her mother playing the piano when she was a child.
Her husband's love for her is deep, and the loneliness that comes from it is also a lot of money. Otherwise, she wouldn't be discussing Eva with Charlotte, who is a mother-in-law and not very close to her, in the middle of the night. This behavior is a bit neurotic, and it is a means of choosing to be close to a person and have no choice. Such caution and side-talking is also similar to Eva's attitude towards her mother, so this is equivalent to a counter-evidence, proving that Eva really loves her mother deeply. (I can’t help but say that many people read the warmth in the ending because, when the husband saw the letter of apology written by Eva to his mother, he was kind to others and imagined the smiling faces of Eva and Charlotte’s reconciliation. .But this is entirely from his perspective, not the truth in the story, but here it shows that he doesn't know the mother and daughter.)
As for the son who died, Eva's attitude is even more revealing. The husband mentioned that the birth of her son made her cheerful and optimistic, and she began to write to Charlotte on her own initiative; she also mentioned that she was unexpectedly strong after the death of her son. I guess the logic is that it wasn't the birth of the son that brought Eva joy, but rather the fact that the son disgusted her, and that's how she realized how much she resembled Charlotte. She begins to put herself in Charlotte's shoes, diluting her years of feud. When her son died, she was not as sad as others imagined, because what was really important to her was her understanding of Charlotte, which cannot be taken away by death. On the contrary, in the end, after Charlotte left, Eva went to her son's grave like a mother who had lost her beloved son for the first time and said something to see through life. , by imagining the performance of a lover. She doesn't understand lovers, like Charlotte.
I believe that if you love someone, you will love to become her. Why not? I stay with her all day long, observe her, watch her, and unknowingly learn how she laughs, crys, speaks, and treats others. Why not?
In fact, the biggest shadow in Eva's growth process is not that Charlotte doesn't love her, but that she loves Charlotte too much and can't get a response. Not getting a response only shows that Charlotte is cold-hearted; too much love is a real tragedy, indicating that cold-heartedness will become her own end.
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