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Unfortunately, everyone, including me, was wrong.
The status quo is that shit is fucked.
According to Bergmans ethos, youre genuinely lucky to find one or two moments of happiness per lifetime.
In many ways, they now reflect everyday life.
Each film runs either a tight 90 minutes or a languid five hours long, with very little variation.
And as an almost unnecessary bonus, Swedish is a very calming language with a sort of ASMR effect.
Allow yourself to feel relaxed by that symmetry!
Why do Maria and Karin despise each other so deeply?
3.Hour of the Wolf
When to Watch:When your partner starts openly talking to themselves.
Johan begins hallucinating (OR DOES HE?)
freaky island dwellers, including a woman whose face comes off with her hat and a young demonic child.
But other people will destroy you, too.
Are you soothed yet, or …?
You in your cage, me in mine, each in his own little cube.)
Why must life go on?
asks the spiritually devastated Jonas.
Tomas has no reply, and this sends him into a fit of conflicted self-loathing.
Maybe you wont feel the same way, and thats okay there are other pastors with lighter vibes!
If there is no God, would it really make any difference?
wonders Tomas at one point.
Life would become understandable.
And this death would be a snuffing out of life.
The dissolution of body and soul.
Cruelty, loneliness, and fear all these things would be straightforward and transparent.
Suffering is incomprehensible, so it needs no explanation.
6.Wild Strawberries
When to Watch:When you start hallucinating visions of your hot cousins.
I mean, what is he trying to tell us here?
9.Autumn Sonata
When to Watch:When you consider creating a pod with estranged family members.
I guess my primary point is that your quarantine pod could be a lot worse.
I dont want to leave you feeling too despondent, and neither did Ingmar.
