Bad girl?

Amiya 2022-03-24 09:03:19

If you're honest enough, you should admit that there is a longing for freedom in our hearts.
We hate the rules of society, whether from family, from social, from career, they all torture our spirit.
We long for physical liberation, and the best reflection of that liberation is sex.
For Monica, she has undoubtedly revealed her inner yearning for physical and spiritual freedom, which is the so-called "do whatever you want", which has led to social rejection.
For Monica's husband, it is in his nature when he gives up his job for freedom and gains passion in sex with Monica.
At the end of the film, Monica escapes the family that binds her hands and feet and returns to a free life.
Monica's husband is in front of the mirror, holding the child, thinking of his wife's beautiful body in his mind, but he feels ashamed for such a thought.
We live in society, inseparable from it, and our body and spirit's desire for freedom is incompatible with society. The original animal nature has never disappeared, it is only because of the formation of society that we must suppress our inner desires. Without income, we'll starve, use violence, we'll be criminals...A lot of what we do, we don't want to, but we have to do it, we have to pretend, otherwise, we will become bad.
Monica is not bad, but she lives too real.

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Extended Reading
  • Aida 2022-03-14 14:12:27

    [Summer with Monica] is not pure realism, it is a film text that Bergman has moralized and allegorized as a moral leader and finally surpasses realism. Through this tragedy Bergman guides the audience not to repeat the mistakes of the people in the film. Superstition in luck, indulging in dreams, will eventually usher in his own tragedy. Many shots are reminiscent of later works.

  • Greyson 2022-04-23 07:03:54

    Actor scheduling. Actors create characters. Watching more Bergman films, you should be even more desperate for marriage. The heroine who pushes + looks directly at the camera. The outlawer couple is really a classic theme: male and female thieves, madman Pierrot...Most of the sports shots are panning.

Summer with Monika quotes

  • Monika Eriksson: Now we can go wherever we like.

    Harry Lund: Like you said that time at the cafe: "Let's go away!" Let's forget about all those bastards.

    Monika Eriksson: I hate them. Everyone who holds us back, who wants us to grovel.

    Harry Lund: Let them scurry around like rats - - we won't be there.

  • Harry Lund: Imagine them slaving away at Forsberg's now.

    Monika Eriksson: And down in that old cellar, carrying crates around in the dust and dirt.

    Harry Lund: We've rebelled, Monika, against all of them.