Movie Watching Notes 01

Antwon 2022-03-26 09:01:13

At the beginning of January 2018, I found that there is a place in Nanjing that shows free literary and artistic movies. It is a lovely movie fan who shows some classic old movies in his rented apartment. The apartment is very close to the bustling and bustling Xinjiekou Metro Station Exit 15. It is also very interesting to show some literary films that few people catch a cold in a place very close to the lively.

At that time, I was also bored on weekend nights and went to the movies to pass the time. One screening was Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's "Autumn Sonata," a 1978 film starring Ingrid Bergman (she also played "Casablanca," but I haven't seen it yet) . The story of the film is relatively simple. Ingrid Bergman plays a well-known pianist who has toured everywhere. After her husband passed away, her daughter married to a priest invited her to live there. Before that, the mother and daughter were two. People have been there for many years. During the small stay, the weak daughter couldn't help venting the complaints she had held in her heart all these years, and was dissatisfied with the damage her mother had caused to the family by traveling all over the place for so many years. At the same time, the mother also felt helpless. She felt that it was not her intention to understand love. The story ends with an aging mother and her agent heading to the next show, while her daughter is still living in pain she can't get rid of. Fortunately, she has a man who understands her, Victor, who has been taking care of her. , Victor is a nice guy.

This scene is about the life of a Swedish family. Most of the filming locations were completed in the living room and bedroom. Family conflicts and conflicts do not respect national borders. Even in China, every family has a difficult scripture to read.

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Extended Reading
  • Laverna 2022-01-29 08:08:08

    Bergman is really good at exploring alienation, misunderstanding, hatred and hypocrisy in family relationships. This time, even the selfishness, vanity, arrogance and paranoia that may be hidden in the mother-daughter relationship are also exposed on the screen. The interior furnishings in warm yellow can't stop the biting cold in the family. Ingrid Bergman in her twilight years and Liv Uman in her prime, the Bergman-esque close-ups and close-ups repeatedly uncover people's souls and capture the audience's emotions. On the whole, it is more stage-dramatic than the previous work [Shouting and Whispering], especially the way of introducing (and ending) the story with the husband facing the camera directly (with the wife playing the piano in the background), and one by one fixed shot with multiple door frames. (9.0/10)

  • Meredith 2022-03-27 09:01:20

    A film about love, although it is the love of mother and daughter, but in terms of the way, nature and harm of love, each kind of love is actually not much different. No one can save those who do not have the ability and courage to love. There is no reconciliation at the end of the movie, what a cruel director, but perhaps helpless. I can't help but feel indignant. People with flawed characters are not qualified to be parents. Please take responsibility for bringing children into the world!

Autumn Sonata quotes

  • Eva: There can be no forgiveness.

  • Eva: But one thing I did understand: not a shred of the real me could be loved or accepted. I didn't dare to be myself even when I was alone because I hated what was my own.