Do you love human beings, or do you love specific people?

Dion 2022-04-20 09:02:33

Bergman's "Autumn Sonata", the oil painting-like picture, the color matching is so beautiful! The face is shot, and the actor's expression is in full view. The film tells the story of the mother-daughter parent-child relationship. The confrontation between reason and passion, pure reason and practical reason is fully demonstrated in the climax of the film—the mutual accusation of mother and daughter. We often hear people say, "Love concrete people, but don't love human beings." "Humanity" is an abstract concept, and people who are good at constructing abstract concepts are indeed easy to become tyrants of their minds. What is the result of pure rationality or cognitive rationality going to the extreme? For a nation it may be Hitler; for a family, it may be a mother's desperate control or abandonment of her daughter, both of which are extreme violence. But my mother was right, "It takes talent to feel the truth." Loving specific people and participating in specific mundane life requires talent; just like logical deduction of abstract concepts in your mind, talent is required. But what's wrong with my daughter? She loves her mother and wants to please her in every word and deed; she loves her relatives and takes her sickly sister to take care of her; she believes in the immortality of the soul and the existence of God, even if she loses her beloved son, she feels that he has never left; even if she is full of hatred She wanted to sue her mother, and finally did not want to convict her. She wanted to find a way of forgiveness; she approached God step by step through her own practice. The strong will laugh at the warmth of the human world, yes, that short-lived, tempting, self-moving emotion is not worth mentioning to them; they are only willing to interpret the repressed pain in their minds and in great works of art with strength. For the weak, they are down-to-earth, looking for emotional and moral support in secular life, eager to complete self-redemption in love and being loved. Yes, often those who crawl on the earth are the people of God. Man, there is both divinity and humanity, and balancing and reconciling between the two may be mediocre, such as you and me, a lifetime issue.

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  • Dorthy 2022-03-25 09:01:21

    Deep love, hate all. The estrangement between mother and daughter for two or seven years, they greeted each other at the first moment of meeting, but cursed behind their backs. When each other's inner emotions are vented, in fact, love still arises spontaneously, knowing that they should not hurt each other, but tolerance is always long overdue. The whole movie is an emotional confrontation between two women, a movie plot supported by acting skills. Why do you have to watch Bergman? I still don't understand it till now.

  • Ignatius 2022-03-19 09:01:09

    #新看# All the deepest hurts will only happen between the closest people, after talking or repenting, forgiveness will not happen, everything goes back to the original point, indifference continues indifference, gully still gully; large orange & red and cold The pale inner drama forms a strong contrast, bright and dark light & front and back, front & back; Uman's acting skills are really good, worthy of the royal use.

Autumn Sonata quotes

  • 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.

  • Eva: I will never let you vanish out of my life again. I'm going to persist. I won't give up, even if it is too late. I don't think it is too late. It must not be too late.