The cry of life drizzle blooming
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Grandma gave birth to three sons, of which my father Oscar was the weakest, and his two brothers, Karl and Gustav, were drinking and drunk all day long. Then she stayed with her German wife who was disgusted by the whole family, and the other was often wrapped up with beautiful women. Strangely, Gustav's wife indulged her husband in every possible way.
On Christmas Eve this year, Stockholm is still shrouded in heavy snow. It is rare for the family to get together in a year. Grandma is always the first person to get up on this day. She will supervise the servants to arrange the holiday house on this morning every year. The candles were shining at the moment, converging into a long and colorful dragon. When she walked by, she would carefully straighten the crooked candles.
Before Christmas dinner, the crappy actor's father expressed his emotions in his theater for a year. He spoke like a sick priest. Grandma always hoped that his father could have a better rest, but as a crappy actor's father, he never had much chance. Resting, a few years ago, the theater lost money every year, and the expenses were borne by the grandmother alone, and perhaps she was better than Yuta before. Although my father was not superb in acting, he finally made the theater self-reliant.
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Stockholm Christmas Eve the whole family gathered in my opinion, divide borders and cultures have long since vanished in a Bergman film princess dim in memory of the family, kindly grandmother, elders, Western desire for harmonious family And the love and compassion for life are the same as the essence of Eastern culture, so when you watch "Fanny and Alexandra", you will deeply feel that "they" are the family members you once loved. Those shouts and the drizzle His days have also become tough and mature in the nostalgia for his childhood beauty.
In the first half of the movie, Alexandria’s father Oscar’s fragile theater speech seemed to have predicted the separation soon. Prior to this, the director used the first few minutes, empty luxury villas to create Alexandria fearing loneliness. Until grandma appeared in front of her, in the Mandarin dubbed version, grandma's kindness was even more prominent. At this time, she was decorating the room for the Christmas party. The long and narrow aisles in the room were the footprints of her vigor, but she looked a little sad on her face. .
"Alexander, are you there?"
Grandma spotted Alexandra who was still hiding under the table. The camera was switched to Alexandra's lingering face. He didn't seem to hear grandma's call. He seemed to have doubts and distrust towards the family.
Bergman apparently incarnates himself as Alexandra, the precocious, intelligent boy, and his appearance is very similar to the childhood Bergman. It’s just that the childhood part of the movie has a little more French literature. It’s a pity that the French director does not have the talent of Bergman. The luxurious house in Stockholm, if you have read "Reminiscence of the Passing Time", the audience will quickly think of it. In Proust’s early life in the countryside of Combray, Bergman’s success lies in his accurate grasp of the classical atmosphere and the fragility of the doted aristocracy in dealing with life.
The movie is based on the perspective of Alexandria, but is not limited to it. Bergman tried to show the upper class of Sweden in the early twentieth century, but most of the protagonists were given to women. The grandmother of Alexandria is obviously the backbone of the family. The family will turn to her for help in any difficulties, but she is by no means a parent who indulges her children. She treats her three sons vividly, but without losing sternness. Of the three brothers, Carl is the least capable. Not only did he owe a debt, he also asked a German daughter-in-law, and the family hated Germans. When Karl opened his mouth again to ask his mother for money on Christmas Eve, his mother politely refused, and later he asked his mother’s old lover to borrow. Yutai seemed to have colluded with her mother and asked: You still pay off the previous usury, and
the old mother and family members did not leave the living room after the Christmas night. Who knows her melancholy? When the old lover approached her, the aging girl looked in the mirror, no longer kissing her as she did when she was young, but recalled the past and said: You see, I still have to apply makeup on my face.
The men in the movie seem to be jerks, and the women have become the center of the family. They do not have the stinginess and unreasonableness of men, but work silently to support their families. Alexandra grew up in such a harmonious environment. Although he saw a lot of falsehoods, it was still sweet. He had a respectable father and a kind grandma.
What was Sweden like at that time? In the film several times there are shots of the turbulent rapids of the rivers near the city. The white water splashes, everything quiet and noisy are submerged in it. When one scene is connected to another, the rapids become a new life. Possible.
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A new life might be a good sign, but after Oscar’s death, his mother married an indifferent bishop. In the eyes of the children, this choice is really incredible, but there is only one way in front of Alexandra:
go. In the past, or jump into the cold rapids.
From the friendly and warm grandmother's house to the bishop's cold castle, everyone will stop advancing in front of anyone, let alone the bishop's former wife who died in the rapids below the castle. First day here. The mother was stunned by the newlyweds, she smiled and persuaded the children to give her some time, and then prayed to God together.
The audience here thinks that the mother is a rascal and thinks too much about herself in the treatment of the newlyweds. She is more confused by the handsome appearance of the bishop, and even naively thinks that it is a world where he can re-graft and grow, and he should live on. .
And here is obviously the director’s own emotional expression, but his bishop’s father is the biological father, so what is described in the film is only a small part, even the director’s utopian structure, because in reality, the mother always has no custody rights for the child. Leaving his father, despite how cruel and violent the devil buried in his black priesthood.
Bergman is very concerned about the depiction of family affection. As early as in "Wild Strawberry" and "Shout and Drizzle", there was a yearning for a beautiful childhood. However, reality has always been at odds with it. The contradictory childhood experience inspired the director to metaphysical The enthusiasm of the world, shouts and drizzle are the best summary of this contradiction.
"Fanny and Alexandra" ultimately "destroyed" his stepfather in the fire of God's punishment, because his ruthlessness had already deviated from humanity. After leaving the cold and terrifying castle, Alexandra and his sister Fanny returned to grandma's kindness. In this world, the cordial uncle Gustav gave a loud speech at the welcome banquet, and his incoherent excitement revealed his praise and expectations for the new students. And this is also the last shot of the movie. What grandma read about Strindberg's play.
That moment of leaning in grandma's arms is also a very pleased memory of Alexandra.
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It can be said that the first half of the film is the best memory of the author’s childhood, the lively and harmonious banquet, the ubiquitous humor, and the gimmicks that make the childhood look colorful, and this is also the scene of the first chapter of Proust’s novel, "Combre". After being edited by the director from the TV series version, "Fanny and Alexandra" appeared to be perfect. Although the narrative is too simple on some levels, the attentive audience can still understand the original intention of the author. And the birth of this film further proves Bergman's true ambition for literature, and the film is not a popular way.
The film once again uses the stream of consciousness in literature. Returning to the language of the film is memory or time montage. After his father’s death, Alexander always felt his father’s existence, especially when he needed light, the light of the soul, Although I can't see it, it becomes the embodiment of courage. Interestingly, the bishop who hated Alexandra also appeared near the end of the film. Compared with the bright father, the bishop warned him on the other side of the world: You can’t escape
the love of life in my palm and became the film. Shouting all the time. It is a pity that father Oscar can only shout in heaven. On the night after escaping from the bishop’s castle, his father once again flashed in front of him. He slowly approached Alexandria and said to him: This is the end of the matter, and that’s all I can do. NS.
After escaping from the castle, he was obviously reborn, but he bid farewell to his childhood innocence.
He became more suspicious, but he became more and more expectant for love, even if it was just the temperature when he was close, his mother's innocence and passion and his father's cowardly and timid character successively showed on him.
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at the time of Combray, lush green, the women wore white umbrella body moving slowly on the narrow country lanes, which will have my mother.
On the outskirts of Stockholm, her mother was reborn and said goodbye to the cold castle. She was walking towards the country, with firm and beautiful steps.
Bergman's "Fanny and Alexandria" ended with a dreamlike ending, giving people the feeling of raining and clearing, and once the sea is difficult. This is the same as "Shout and Drizzle" more than ten years ago:
the three sisters wearing white low-top hats are rippling in the spring breeze. The diary of the dead Agnes wrote:
How good is this moment, We are together, as if we have returned to our happy childhood.
At this time, the drizzle of childhood was in the memory: Sasa, like a breeze.
06.07.28 Hankou
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