How we lost our ability to love

Garett 2022-03-21 09:03:26

Bergman really prefers this kind of theme of gradual love and incompetence. At first, watching The Coen Brothers "The Absentee" failed to evoke such feelings in me: empty politeness can't be exchanged for love, and hypocrisy and restraint can't be embraced; "Realize with reason" lingering around things; I am alive but I am dead, such a numb society exists. "I don't know where the world is in a dark room in the middle of the night", maybe the comprehension of true feelings requires talent. At first I tried my best not to be mediocre, trying to make life fun and pleasing to the people around me, but then I found to my dismay that all I did was to complete a little fantasy life on the cloud. People always want to be unique, and they desperately long for love and understanding. People are always too small and easy to be proud of, and easy-to-get love is also the easiest to squander. Afterwards, I regret that others don’t understand me, but how much of it is because I have lost enough reason to stop, stop fantasizing, express it in time, and accept it. Cover up your own facts, this is the truth. There was a very popular saying before that most people like you, they just want to like you in a normal way and be with you. Touch your leaves, kiss your flowers. At this time, you can't uproot all the intertwined roots in the ground, put it under the light of the sky, put it in front of him, and say, look at it, please love me with them, this is what I am. Unfortunately, you just can't do that. This is what Malloy Sandor explained in "Leaves of Grass" long ago that you can't expect a person in the world who can accurately understand your language, behavior, and understand and explain your thoughts. You just need to know what you really want; the world will only receive and see your will processed and reflected by that mysterious and twisted mirror of human consciousness. People don't blame their pretense, but they suffer from self-deception , "We both love each other deeply, in that vulgar and mutilated way", such a love life, dangerous and interesting.

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  • Amber 2022-03-29 09:01:09

    What Bergman wants to say is that this form of marriage binds human emotions and buries them. Liv Uman's performance can be completely described as "outstanding", showing the emotional experience of the heroine Marianne in every time period in extreme detail.

  • Hazle 2022-03-24 09:03:48

    "We are all emotionally illiterate." Marriage has made "sex" a sensitive word, and if you want to avoid it and avoid it, you will replace it with trifles, duties, morals, and even great, inclusive, guilty love. The two husband and wife "grow up together and grow old together", and eventually become old friends who stay warm and comfort each other after the banquet. ps feels that women are much stronger than men after liberation...

Scenes from a Marriage quotes

  • Marianne: Are we living in utter confusion?

    Johan: You and I?

    Marianne: No, all of us.

    Johan: What do you mean?

    Marianne: I'm talking about fear, uncertainty and ignorance.Do you think that secretly we're afraid we're slipping downhill and don't know what to do?

    Johan: Yes, I think so.

    Marianne: Is it too late?

    Johan: Yes. But we shouldn't say things like that. Only think them.

    Marianne: Have we missed something important?

    Johan: All of us?

    Marianne: Yes...

  • Marianne: I felt inadequate at work and at home, and I was a washout in bed too. I was hedged in by all the griping and endless demands! Goddamn you! Was it so strange that I used sex for leverage? I was outnumbered, having to fight you, both sets of parents and society! When I think about what I endured, I could scream! I tell you this: never again! You sit there whining about conspiracies. Well, it serves you right! I hope you'll have it rammed down your throat that you're a useless parasite.

    Johan: You're being utterly grotesque!

    Marianne: So what? That's what I've become!