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Immediate (instinctive) reactions at the end

posted 12 years ago by tylermed
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Anyone else have a strong emotional and, likely irrational thought or reaction directly following the movie? I just yelled swears at the TV and I'm not sure if it was because I wanted to know more and felt gypped or if I felt too much sympathy for Ester. Either way I'm interested if anyone else has any immediate reactions to it.

[–] Strausszek 12 years ago

The overall situation with its lack of contact, underlying despair, nervousness and dissolution really pulls me in. It's a very sensuous film (the cinematography!) but there's a deep sense of fear and breakdown at the heart of it. To Bergman it was liberating though, in many ways.

You are a lunatic, Sir, and you're going to end up on the Russian front. I have a car waiting.