The Silence Comments

  • Asha 2022-03-23 09:02:49

    The last thirty minutes were finally able to sink in. Full of projections from Bergman's personal experience, the episode of the hospital bed's confession was horrific. Is it a confession, is it a satire? Reminds me of the episode in the documentary: "I'm lonely, can you hug me?" (after a few minutes) "Enough is enough, you can...

  • Theodore 2022-03-23 09:02:49

    The last note with "soul" written on it is a chicken rib that destroys the overall idea. After all, he has never grown up in the long film time...

  • Katlyn 2022-03-23 09:02:49

    Very few works have observed the strange feeling in the hotel corridor, and they are very fascinated by the magical passive situation that repels every person who has no way to enter and has to keep walking away from embarrassment. "It's comfortable to have sex with you, and you don't need to understand each other to be...

  • Dell 2022-03-23 09:02:49

    Rewatch. The delicate relationship between sisters turned into wounds torn each other in the ineffective communication, the balance collapsed in the estrangement, the excess lust was dug out of the ground and exposed to the sun, no amount of words was futile. A favorite old...

  • Skylar 2022-03-23 09:02:49

    If you're a lay person like me, don't watch a movie where fans only talk about philosophy and not plot in the comments. Otherwise, if you are sitting in the cinema and listening to the sound effects of entertainment films in the cinema next to you, it will feel like: you have married a wife who is very rich but indifferent, and the wife of the old king next door does not understand the philosophy of literature and art, but her family style Thousands of...

  • Angelo 2022-03-23 09:02:49

    "I have tried to be independent, but in the face of loneliness, it is meaningless." Except for the bartender who has no lines, the male characters are only children, old people and dwarfs; although there is a creative background of war, the moment when the tank appears is very brief and Precise...

  • Obie 2022-03-21 09:02:47

    Bergman's double grievances, the elder sister drags the sick body but has a cold soul, the younger sister is alive and eager to indulge and fears the majesty of the elder sister, there is always a closed door between the sisters who lack communication. Under the cold eyes of God, physical and spiritual struggles finally lead to eternal...

  • Julia 2022-03-20 09:02:24

    People become unable to communicate with each other, so they can only taste the pain deep in their hearts; if a person does not commit suicide, he has to accept life. The enlightening value of Bergman’s movie is not to determine the existence of God, but to raise an eternal question to the audience: after God is "killed", how should humanity face this sinful world? How to face the reality that loneliness and isolation still hold all individual...

  • Shaun 2022-03-20 09:02:24

    Don't communicate if you can't communicate with someone. You can't hang yourself on a tree. If you can't communicate with everyone, it can only be your own problem. People are gregarious animals, while others are solitary animals. It’s actually good to be alone. No kind of life is perfect. Love means selfless dedication and bondage. Freedom means loneliness, which can only be obtained by giving up something. Greedy perfectionists always lead to split and pathological...

  • Ethel 2022-03-20 09:02:24

    The trilogy has the least discussion on theology. The spirit wants to control the body, and the body wants to ask for the spirit. God is not in the service area. You can solve it by...

Extended Reading
  • Name 2022-03-20 09:02:24

    the tenderness of strangers

    In a train box, a pair of sisters and sister's children, along the way are the army and tanks, the wandering children saw the soldiers and officers in other cars, as if war was imminent, at the same time, the sister fell ill in the car. This opening reveals a connection, such as the end times, such...

  • Dashawn 2022-01-12 08:01:36

    If Gods are silent, what will the world be like

    Bergman has always been a director with a philosophical temperament, and his works often carry religious thinking and introspective feelings. From 1961 to 1963, Bergman filmed the three films "Through the Dark Glass", "Winter Light", and "The Silence", which were full of moral anxiety and doubts...

The Silence quotes

  • [first lines]

    Johan: [points to a sign] What does that mean?

    Ester: I don't know.

  • Anna: I went to the cinema and sat in a box at the back. A man and a woman made love right in front of me. When they were finished, they left. A man came in, someone I'd met at the bar. He sat down next to me and started stroking my thighs. Then we had intercourse on the floor. That's how my dress got dirty.

    Ester: Is that true?

    Anna: Why would I lie?

    Ester: Right. Why would you?

    Anna: It so happens that I was lying.

    Ester: It doesn't matter.

    Anna: I sat and watched that couple make love. Then I went to the bar and this man left with me. I didn't know where to go, so we went into a church. We had intercourse in a dark corner behind some pillars. It was cooler there.

    Ester: I see.

    Anna: This time I'll make sure I get my clothes off first.