I don't understand art, but this work gives me the feeling of tiredness and hurt, although I don't really understand it after all.
The harsh sound at the beginning of the film is as uncomfortable as the 20 minutes at the end of "2001 A Space Odyssey", plus the montage technique of editing multiple tense, thrilling and painful pictures together. That's when the tone of the whole movie was set.
In an absolutely silent and lonely environment, nurse Alma gradually explores and exposes her inner self, and human nature is gradually revealed. From here, I even think of the powerful lethality that cold violence can bring.
In such a large number of long and large-scale dialogues, the slow-paced, long-term unchanged facial expressions, the ambiguous but intense relationship between the two, and the indistinguishable story fragments, all deliberately hide the plot through the Bergman style. With various details, the characters who seem to be torturing the movie are actually torturing the audience's spiritual world; either guessing or over-interpreting makes me, as an audience, not far from madness .
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