Wild Strawberry is actually what we call bayberry. Another translation is "The Year of the Bayberry Tree". "Wild Strawberry" is a classic work of stream-of-consciousness movies and a representative of a surrealist film. The biggest feature of the film is that Alternating back and forth between reality and dream, the film became 2 million yuan on the available information, but it seems that it may not require too much expenditure on the scene. The film mainly tells the story of a day when a medical professor awarded an award. In the morning, he temporarily changed his plan, changed the mode of transportation to the award ceremony, and encountered various things along the way. It can be said to be the ancestor of road films. Accepting and reflecting on what you think and what you hear from the outside, and then to the change of the final characters, this road to redemption can be regarded as a drama that contains a strong sense of human loneliness.
There are four clear dreams in the film. For Isaac, the first three dreams are nightmares. The background of the first dream is the first dream at the beginning. There is only one person in the dream. This dream is enough to make everyone pay attention. I am afraid, because what people are most afraid of is strangeness. When a person is in a completely alienated situation, it is like a clock in a dream that has no hour and minute hands, and a horse runs a coffin all over the street. The person in the coffin is still himself, these mirror images. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a very successful nightmare. This is not the same as horror movies. It is not a dream of zombies, vampires, etc. It is a nightmare. To be precise, the nightmare is the embodiment of the fragile inner heart. It only creates fear. In terms of dreams, the director and screenwriter have a very solid foundation. This statement is called "Apocalypse" in the West, and it is also recorded in "Zuo Zhuan", which is a form of dreaming. What brought Isaac to this dream was unease and weirdness. When he woke up, he ordered his servants as usual and insisted on driving to award the award. It could be felt that Isaac was a very stubborn old man who had a monologue with the previous part of the film. It doesn't match his introduction at all, Isaac is a professor of medicine, he has a dog because of his advanced age, this is a very important clue, he is lonely, there is no pointer in the dream, the faceless person, the coffin The self in him is the fear in Isaac's heart. It is his inner mirror image of an old man who is slowly aging but cannot escape. This initial dream is the beginning of Isaac's transformation, which is mainly reflected in his indifference and selfishness. And to express the father's love that he lacked when he was young and what happened when his childhood sweetheart was robbed, the old man himself was only protecting himself in self-defense, which was in line with the concept of good nature in both China and the West. People who hate holding grudges can't bear to hurt even flies, let alone Miss Aegda? This love-hate old man used his lack of fatherly love to cause his son to have nothing to do with him, and the daughter-in-law called him "uncle" at the beginning, which also directly pointed out Isaac's estrangement from women. The horse face just brings out the fact that Isaac's mother is still alive but in vain.
In the following journey, the characters are very clearly shaped. When he first set off, Isaac confidently told his daughter-in-law the shortcomings of men and women, and at the end he became a listener step by step. After their first conversation, Isaac entered a second dream, where he saw Stergert "seduce" his fiancée for the first time, and he saw what his peers were saying about him, but he himself Needless to say, this surreal expression made Isaac feel pain and joy, seeing his goddess Sarah in front of him, in fact, beyond the real sense of distance between old and young, this yearning for life and unreachable life. The alienation made Isaac very painful. The relationship in the dream was very clear. The dream at the beginning was just a reappearance of the inner subconscious, and this kind of nightmare without the truth was the most terrifying. It is only after a dream that his inner thoughts become concrete. What Isaac lacks is the basic connection between people. He is selfish and cold. He knows that people will discuss and comment on people's characters and behaviors. Insulated relationship", this scene made Isaac feel very incompetent and frustrated, and he took a seat with the former dream "Apocalypse" and began to reflect.
Later, I met five people on the road, two car accidents and three specializing in taxis, representing irritability, obedience, rationality, sensibility and happiness. When Sarah, Victor, and Anders were having fun, Isaac Lu Smile, he has a strong yearning for youth. The two young people who want to be an official and a doctor are constantly pursuing a happy life. Victor, who does not believe in religion, has been staring at Marianne, just like the fourth brother back then. Welfare, the relationship between Sarah and Isaac, the couple happened to be similar to their son and daughter-in-law, because of boredom and other emotions, they ignored each other, but they couldn't leave each other. After seeing the old mother, I thought again, Isaac began to be judged. This dream is so real that the dream of ordinary people is a dream that is a messy combination of a bunch of different situations. Bergman also added a living soul to the dream, which is Issa Ke's redemption, he discovered that the doctor's duty was to ask for forgiveness, misjudging the test questions and other scenes made him feel humiliated, let him re-understand himself, and see if she was willing to redeem himself, although his father was a godfather, he lacked respect for him. Caring, but starting from the truth, Isaac does not hate religion, but still believes in religion. Seeing the third dream plot begins to change, one is that he accepts redemption, the other is to continue, as the judge said In the end, Isaac accepted the change. In the Bible, redemption is a very important philosophical topic, and gradually changed his view to the supremacy of human nature, devaluing medical technology and other means, a person who even It's a professor who can't tell whether he is alive or dead, and what kind of unreasonable capital is there?
The last dream is also the only warm dream in the whole film. In the dream, Isaac completed his redemption and gave the "father" for the first time. He began to know how to love, but one thing is very Certainly, no one can change the face of old age, but it is fortunate that he found the missing image of his parents before he died.
In fact, in terms of surrealism, "Wild Strawberry" was represented by "An Andalusian Dog" before, but the difference is that "Wild Strawberry" is more organized, with a very clear story line, connecting dreams with reality, "A Dog" "Andalusian Dog" is more primitive, and "Mechanical Dance" also has a sense of chaos in the stream of consciousness. In terms of artistry and authenticity, "Wild Strawberry" is very orderly, and finally Isaac achieves self-awareness and life. cognition.
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