Bad girl?

Amiya 2022-03-24 09:03:19

If you're honest enough, you should admit that there is a longing for freedom in our hearts.
We hate the rules of society, whether from family, from social, from career, they all torture our spirit.
We long for physical liberation, and the best reflection of that liberation is sex.
For Monica, she has undoubtedly revealed her inner yearning for physical and spiritual freedom, which is the so-called "do whatever you want", which has led to social rejection.
For Monica's husband, it is in his nature when he gives up his job for freedom and gains passion in sex with Monica.
At the end of the film, Monica escapes the family that binds her hands and feet and returns to a free life.
Monica's husband is in front of the mirror, holding the child, thinking of his wife's beautiful body in his mind, but he feels ashamed for such a thought.
We live in society, inseparable from it, and our body and spirit's desire for freedom is incompatible with society. The original animal nature has never disappeared, it is only because of the formation of society that we must suppress our inner desires. Without income, we'll starve, use violence, we'll be criminals...A lot of what we do, we don't want to, but we have to do it, we have to pretend, otherwise, we will become bad.
Monica is not bad, but she lives too real.

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Extended Reading
  • Elenora 2022-04-23 07:03:54

    "I'm going to try my best to make money to buy you movie tickets" The audience laughed~ The utopian boat under the Industrialization Bridge, Madame Bovary's heroine, the short-lived ideal love in summer, Bergman made the heroine so good , full of the wild and hormonal air of a young carcass. Monica's gaze turned from the other side to the camera, and the most classic gaze in the history of the film, where the background gradually darkened, was the first time she could not shy away from looking directly at the audience. It seems that the audience is also questioned

  • Tillman 2022-04-24 07:01:22

    Deeply ruthless and sad moments fill those savage and sensual close-up long shots, shattering idealistic freedom and, more importantly, the best fantasies of a woman for whom all beauty is willful The irony of selfishness and laziness, but also the eternal helplessness of the relationship between men and women, it is really sad to pick up the broken things. Bergman makes the most terrifying aspects of humanity moving, twists and turns non-negotiable.

Summer with Monika quotes

  • Harry Lund: You see - I've always been so lonely. My mother got sick when I was five. She was sick until she died. I was eight by then. Dad went a bit funny after that. He got all quiet. He and I would sit at home all evening, neither saying a word. We'd just sit there.

    Monika Eriksson: I've never been alone. There's so many of us. The brats fight and wreck everything. Dad's always drunk and kicking up a fuss.

  • Monika Eriksson: Harry, why do some people have all the luck while others are miserable?

    Harry Lund: Monika, we have each other.