When the film progressed to 1/3, he still thought that his father was the center of the whole play. It was only in the second half that it was discovered that a woman was the real core of the whole play, and various mirror images were projected around her for the audience to reflect. The first is the mirror image of the woman and the father. Bergman, in his usual sharp style, ruthlessly pointed out the arrogant and narrow mentality and personality characteristics of the father's quintessential intellectual - who regards his daughter as more of his literary works. A Camusian outsider who has no likes and dislikes, only an ambiguous coolness and a blank and blank human nature. In pursuit of art and philosophy, we forget a basic fact - any kind of transcendental existence must be based on an ordinary perspective and mentality, and such transcendence can go through storms and reach eternity. The second is the woman and her husband, an expansive, completely unspiritual populist love that is imposed on a woman in the name of love and realism. What the husband wants to maintain is more of a social function. The third is the mirror image of the younger son's confusion about youth. Under the pressure of the first two mirror images, the younger son's thoughts can only be manipulated by him, but there is no specific person who manipulates him.
The fourth layer is the self-mirror projection of women and their own spiritual illusions. The symbol is the empty house of the siege-style symbol, the house of women's self-spirit. This resistance is more profound and vague, not targeting anyone but everyone. , under the appearance of schizophrenia, the director conveys the final allegory of the film itself—perhaps the biggest mirror is the proposition of sociality itself, any kind of pan-socialization, pan-politicization, pan-rightization, pan-function The philosophical thoughts, political ideas, and religious beliefs of these people will destroy their original wisdom and beautiful nature and go to the back of their value, making them look hideous.
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