Very symbolic film, but I was so touched that at some point I almost burst into tears. I don't know if anyone in the world understands this movie in its entirety the first time around. Anyway, I'm watching it for the second time now. I think these two women are clearly two incarnations of the same person. But what are they trying to express? Self-split, self-examination, self-love, self-resistance, self-compromise...?
Of course, we live in a world full of lies. Not only are we not true to others, we are not even true enough to ourselves. In this sense, do we still exist? Are you still alive? The scene at the beginning of the film, one body after another, and they still blink, they're not dead. Is that what it means?
In addition, monks who self-immolated on TV, women and children who surrendered in photos, wars, riots, do they want to express and communicate the macro consequences of failure?
The lighting in this film really impressed me. At the beginning of the film, I meditate on Elisabeth, who is still and sparkling in the music, and Elisabeth, who is both true and false, comes from the bedroom, and half of the faces of the two women repeating the conversation. Such a slow and still long shot is simply beautiful photography Effect.
When the little boy got up from the bed and stared straight at the camera, and when the two women were intertwined, staring at the camera, he felt that they were not performing, but that they could see through time and space into the hearts of the audience in front of the TV. It feels strange because this is a fairly self-conscious film, and Bergman focuses on expressing his own thoughts and feelings without caring what the audience and others think and think. But in such a few moments, I feel that I am very close to the film, and it seems to be a part of the film.
A good work of art may have a thousand different interpretations. This is the first time I've seen a Bergman film, and the above are purely personal opinions.
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