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Europe has a small coastal city. There was a young girl in the city, and this time her name was Monica. Where there were maidens there was a youth, and later they became a story.
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Unable to stand the pressure of her family, Monica (Harriet Andersson) decides to run away from home, and she finds her crush on her, Harry (Lars Ekborg), hoping to live with him. Monica's arrival ecstatically delighted Harry, and after losing her job, the two spent a leisurely time in a dinghy.
However, the increasingly strained economy made the two young people realize that this life was not a long-term solution, and at the same time, Monica's pregnancy also brought a qualitative change to the relationship between the two. Monica and Harry are married, Harry is out of work, and Monica has a lovely daughter. However, the arrival of the child did not make Monica happy, but made her feel bound and unfree, and in the daily dry work, Harry and his former lover rekindled their old love, and an otherwise happy and harmonious family began to fall apart. ”
The opening shot of the seagulls chirping at the port side, and on one side of the picture is the soft water. On one side of the land was a stiff lifting maneuver: the city was being built.
The two different areas of the sea and the land are a shallow demarcation of the director's moral.
As long as people on land are not too lazy (good things and bad things as long as you are willing to do it), the basic needs of food and clothing are not a problem. Idle, there are a variety of options to consume your desires, the street function refinement of a variety of shops, bars, theaters... As part of this life, the young Harry was required to arrive at a warehouse full of porcelain every day on time for inventory inspections and endured the strict and stereotypical accusations of his superiors. Monica, on the other hand, loves the fantasy of the romantic life of an urban man and a woman in the movie: "Beautiful house, everyone is good to them, wandering around in a brand new car, going to a high-end club to dance." She hated the men who wantonly took advantage of her, but did not understand that their existence was the inevitable secretion of the world she longed for. Thanks to her ignorance and reckless youthfulness, we followed the couple to the beach, away from cranes, rules, and constraints.
"Going to sea, in Melville's view, is a good medicine to get rid of earthly suffering, world-weariness, and melancholy. The sea, as a geographical concept opposed to land, in Melville, is a refuge for all romantic, melancholy and absent-minded young people. ”
Here, happiness and lightness spread in the air, and existence itself makes people sing with joy. The sound of the tide of the sea faded the clothes of the active and muscular maiden, and she jumped into the sea to play and catch the salty sea with her mouth as salty as tears. As if listening to the siren's singing, Harry and I both laughed.
"The relationship between the sailor and the sea contains a simple and ancient fable. The meaning of life itself when whaling sailors face the boundless ocean is both concrete, direct, abstract and symbolic. ”
And what destroyed the Garden of Eden was the time when the Garden of Eden existed. Hungry and need food. It's getting cold, and you want clothes. Another thing happened: Monica's former boyfriend found them and set fire to their boats and supplies. Jealousy and anger pitted the two young men together, and even Monica took a pot from the ship and knocked it on the head of the "invader" in the confusion, and the speed of the process was almost too late to think—no different from the animal's struggle for life and territory. When the "invaders" are knocked down in the water and Monica is about to fight with the oars again, Harry stops him with his hands (or reason) and drags the man out of the water.
Monica's pregnancy was a clear line that forced them to return to shore. The little details are Monica's pot of annoying fried mushrooms that Monica snatched and dumped, and it was her complaint about how long it had been since she had watched a movie. The sea does not give them a sense of security, and happiness passes with the summer.
Monica's departure is related to her rash and one-sided understanding of her parents, which is her consistent style.
When Monica left the baby in Harry's aunt's care and went on her own, the director gave a close-up of her face, the background darkened, and tears poured out. It was as if she saw the imperfection of her own destiny, self-inflicted and helpless. This moment is Bergman's warm gaze across the line of morality and dogma: she is flawed, but she is sometimes beautiful and moving. Perhaps this was a question of his own time, a meltdown.
Melville believed that "in the struggle between man and fate, life on land is not the ideal place to compete, because the truth of this fight is wrapped in many disguises...". The fight here may mean that man is in a struggle against the impermanence of nature, and the "truth wrapped in heavy disguises" is a more imminent fight for modern people: the "civilized" world created is sometimes bright and lovely, and sometimes becomes a stupid joke that mocks itself.
Melville added that "the sailor is a chaser of commercial profits, but also a philosopher and a poet." They are both melancholy and happy. They are melancholy because the sea lets them know that fate is immutable, and happiness stems from their total acceptance of fate. Melville once admired his sailors this way: He would swallow all the results, all the creeds, all the beliefs and persuasions, all the tangible and invisible things, like a very digestible ostrich swallowing bullets and lead pills. ”