It didn´t touch me , maybe since I am not religious at all. I feel like I spent the whole movie waiting in vain , in fact I forced myself to sit through it until the end. The questions raised , the dilemmas , so artificial , uninteresting , irrelevant . Few times I found myself simply staring @ facial mimic of the actors , out of boredom. It felt like someone you do not know is trying to amuse you talking , with passion , about something you never cared to hear or even think about. PS sorry.
I found this one to be the most interesting/compelling out of the few films I've seen of Bergman's. The cripple's monologue here at the end was really great.
What's the hymn in this scene? It seems to be #4 from some Hymnal according to that list of hymns that churches traditionally post for each service, seen in front of the altar on either side. But Hymn 4 in what hymnal? The old Lutheran if there be such a thing? The new Lutheran? The Missouri Synod Hymnal? Some Swedish thing? Was, was was? I don't care which, just tell me the hymn! *collapses in despair* It is an important artistic question, because that hymn has words.
@retread01 That's the end. Why shouldn't it be? It's perfect, because it underscores Bergman's lifelong struggle with the question of faith, a struggle that seems to beset most human beings I think if they are honest at least. I do not mean specifically the question of faith as regards a Christian god, but faith in anything or anyone. Life is hard, perhaps even impossible, without some kind of faith. Bergman's dad was Lutheran minister, so there is that too.
It didn´t touch me , maybe since I am not religious at all. I feel like I spent the whole movie waiting in vain , in fact I forced myself to sit through it until the end. The questions raised , the dilemmas , so artificial , uninteresting , irrelevant . Few times I found myself simply staring @ facial mimic of the actors , out of boredom. It felt like someone you do not know is trying to amuse you talking , with passion , about something you never cared to hear or even think about. PS sorry.
blavisha 2 weeks ago
The most profound ending in cinema history, in my opinion.
mrdisco 5 months ago in playlist More videos from TheMagicLantern1
I found this one to be the most interesting/compelling out of the few films I've seen of Bergman's. The cripple's monologue here at the end was really great.
klbasey 6 months ago
Gorgeous. Bergman's finest sequence in his finest film.
newsradiohead 9 months ago
What's the hymn in this scene? It seems to be #4 from some Hymnal according to that list of hymns that churches traditionally post for each service, seen in front of the altar on either side. But Hymn 4 in what hymnal? The old Lutheran if there be such a thing? The new Lutheran? The Missouri Synod Hymnal? Some Swedish thing? Was, was was? I don't care which, just tell me the hymn! *collapses in despair* It is an important artistic question, because that hymn has words.
acbulgin2 1 year ago
@acbulgin2 I wish I knew too. I played Blom the organist in the Demon Theater's reading of this in LA. I had to transcribe the ones at the beginning.
tillerman1 11 months ago
That's the end?
retread01 1 year ago 2
@retread01 That's the end. Why shouldn't it be? It's perfect, because it underscores Bergman's lifelong struggle with the question of faith, a struggle that seems to beset most human beings I think if they are honest at least. I do not mean specifically the question of faith as regards a Christian god, but faith in anything or anyone. Life is hard, perhaps even impossible, without some kind of faith. Bergman's dad was Lutheran minister, so there is that too.
acbulgin2 1 year ago 7
Thanks for upload.
ErnstJoy 2 years ago