Still in hell, yearning for heaven

Kaylee 2022-03-26 09:01:10

CC Bergman suit, 8.4 points.

Dramatic to the full depth of the character's heart/spirit.

Nordic weather, Bach music,

A lost island, a world of introspection,

The relationship of the four people corresponds to the different parts of the string quartet. When the instrumental music is equally famous, it is close to the most thoughtful form of exploring God.

The scene within the play not only corresponds to the father's authorship (the son is also the creator), but also brings out the word and intention of death.

A quiet (deliberately quiet?) world, corresponding to the noise of auditory hallucinations in mental illness, sexless marriages yet manifesting sexual violence in apocalypse (at least Karin thinks so), imaginary gods/beliefs so powerful and brazen ?

The indomitable selfishness and undisclosed dark desires in everyone's heart (the father used his daughter's illness as the theme, and fled twice when his wife and daughter needed it).

Is God a hideous thief?

If love is neither a proof of God's existence nor an embodiment of God himself, where is God (even the slightest trace) in a world where we think the human voice is full of love?

The son closed the door and rushed out of the imprisoned hut (a metaphor for the spiritual cage).

end,

Is the faint sunlight that connects the sky with the rippling lake in the distance outside the window, the dawn of hope in the life of ashes?

The photography is really excellent, and it is a masterpiece that uses light and shadow to express the state of mind.

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Extended Reading
  • Mylene 2022-03-20 09:02:23

    The director outside the camera is the novelist and father in the camera, observing and recording the collapse of a woman. Everyone lives in their own world and resists the connection with outsiders (AT Field in EVA), even the close relatives are no exception, so they long for a god to lead them through the pain and darkness of connecting with others. Both the father and the neurotic daughter are projections of Bergman’s spiritual world. Whether he is cured or not, he is trying to reconcile himself

  • Winona 2022-03-21 09:02:46

    The small environment dominated by indoor plays and the time in the story within a short day form a closed and short-term effect. The external world is in conflict with the subconscious "two worlds". From family ethics through Freudian psychoanalysis to the ultimate question of the existence of religion and God, it can be seen that Bergman's answer to this proposition at that time was still affirmative. God is "love", which is the breaking of the cage of self

Through a Glass Darkly quotes

  • Karin: Funny, you always say and do the very right thing... and it's always wrong.

  • David: We draw a magic circle and shut out everything that doesn't agree with our secret games. Each time life breaks the circle, the games turn grey and ridiculous. Then we draw a new circle and build a new defense.

    Karin: Poor little daddy.

    David: Yes, poor little daddy, forced to live in reality.