95 points, the first movie with over 90 points this year. I said a long time ago, that this New Year's Eve finally had the opportunity to spend a night in the room watching the cat, and by the way, I also watched the documentary about shooting it. After watching the introduction of the film, I realized that there is a three-hour version. I watched the director's cut version of more than 5 hours. It doesn't matter how long the film is, and the rhythm is indeed a bit slow, but you should think that I was fooled by the background of the film. Anyway, I didn't feel that time passed slowly when I was watching it. Compared with Bergman's "The Seventh Seal", "Virgin Spring" and "Wild Strawberry", this is a much faster-paced film. Children chasing and fighting, uncles' interesting life stories, constantly interspersed theater rehearsal, various births, old age, sickness and death, the mysterious life behind the grocery store, the eerie horror inside the church wall, of course, my favorite is the two children. The negotiation scene between an uncle and a bishop is a classic among the classics.
I heard that the film is also a semi-autobiographical film of the director. Everything the boy experiences in it is nothing more than a story between several family members, but what the director tells in this space is complex, about love , education, responsibility and belief, etc., etc. all appear in one scene. The director often suddenly uses a character's mouth to say some words that seem to have nothing to do with the plot. Those words are probably the director's perception of life after they are stripped away.
Because of its stage presence, the entire film feels like a stage play, but if you think about the art films of that era, and they were made by Bergman, the shadow of this kind of stage play is unavoidable. It's an obvious style.
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