Original Title: Tystnaden
Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten, Håkan Jahnberg
Run time: 96 minutes
Two women and a boy travel into a strange land. They share the same compartment. From the initial scene we can tell that they are in tense. Are they running from something? Or are they just some tourist? So this is the last of faith trilogy after Through A Glass Darkly and Winter Light. I feel like; Mission Accomplished.
One is Ester (Ingrid Thulin), who looks tense and tortured, then there's Anna (Gunnel Lindblom), the younger one who is more vibrant than Ester. They were together with a boy; Johan (Jorgen Lindstrom). heir destination seems strange. It looks like a European country but with no distinct language or culture that we know off. It seems like a fictive country.
They stayed in a hotel where they must face their problems. Johan cannot understood the situation, Ester is getting more tortured and Anna is living her life. I didn't know what cause the sisters to seem to have siblings issue but their conflict is the one that drives the film.
The lonely Johan finds some refuge in making 'friendship' with an old waiter while wander aimlessly at the hotel's hallways. Does the whole story is an allegory/metaphor for something else? I read from Ebert's review that Anna is Body and Ester is Mind (the sufferer). I still don't understand what Johan is. Is he just a child or representing innocence or hope?
Just like some of Bergman's film I have seen, the face and body language get more attention. The black and white emphasize the contrasting characters between these two woman character. I still have to connect this one with the other two faith trilogy movies. Does this one still question faith? I think this one is about how we are always conflicted inside our mind after we settle into some so called permanent worldview, which in this film represented by the strange country as the destination.
I am not a philosopher but I like this one too and I think, the trilogy is amazingly satisfying. It is not heavy with pretentious dialogue or artsy fartsy stuff, but manage to deliver the messages clearly.
Starring: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten, Håkan Jahnberg
Run time: 96 minutes
Two women and a boy travel into a strange land. They share the same compartment. From the initial scene we can tell that they are in tense. Are they running from something? Or are they just some tourist? So this is the last of faith trilogy after Through A Glass Darkly and Winter Light. I feel like; Mission Accomplished.
One is Ester (Ingrid Thulin), who looks tense and tortured, then there's Anna (Gunnel Lindblom), the younger one who is more vibrant than Ester. They were together with a boy; Johan (Jorgen Lindstrom). heir destination seems strange. It looks like a European country but with no distinct language or culture that we know off. It seems like a fictive country.
They stayed in a hotel where they must face their problems. Johan cannot understood the situation, Ester is getting more tortured and Anna is living her life. I didn't know what cause the sisters to seem to have siblings issue but their conflict is the one that drives the film.
The lonely Johan finds some refuge in making 'friendship' with an old waiter while wander aimlessly at the hotel's hallways. Does the whole story is an allegory/metaphor for something else? I read from Ebert's review that Anna is Body and Ester is Mind (the sufferer). I still don't understand what Johan is. Is he just a child or representing innocence or hope?
Just like some of Bergman's film I have seen, the face and body language get more attention. The black and white emphasize the contrasting characters between these two woman character. I still have to connect this one with the other two faith trilogy movies. Does this one still question faith? I think this one is about how we are always conflicted inside our mind after we settle into some so called permanent worldview, which in this film represented by the strange country as the destination.
I am not a philosopher but I like this one too and I think, the trilogy is amazingly satisfying. It is not heavy with pretentious dialogue or artsy fartsy stuff, but manage to deliver the messages clearly.
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