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Through a Glass Darkly

Yesterday (11/02) I watched a movie called "through a glass Darkly", it is movie made by the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman (one of my favorites).

This movie is part of "trilogy" of movies that he filmed. The trilogy is made up of this movie (1961), Winter light (1963) and The silence (1963).

They all have common aspects, and they talk about similar ideas, they are mostly related to the existence of a God and  "the silence of God". Religion, anxiety, doubt, ill, meaning of life, existence, these are essential points in these movies.

These are movies which are slow for some, but that is because the point of his movies is not necessarily to entertain but to help to face the big problematics of men, those questions we all face once in our lives. "Is there a god?" "What is point of living?" and so on. That's why some people call Ingar Bergman "the last existentialist".

In this particular movie, the plot goes around a family of four: the father, his two children and the husband of one of the children. The girl had been at a mental hospital because she had had schizophrenia, so she starts to hear voices which tell her to do things and that God is coming, so she waits for his come.

But the movie (which was fine) wasn't the only cool thing, besides that, at the end of the movie there was a little talk with Carlos Bonfil, a film critic who writes in "La Jornada". He is a very smart person, and he knows a lot!!! The talk lasted around one hour more after the movie finished. I think I would have lasted even more if there had been more time. But it happened that when he was talking, suddenly the screen and the sound turned on, it was a "subtle" way to tell us "Hey it's 10:20 already, we want to go home, please leave now". So, yep, we had to leave, what a sad and funny situation, I wish it had lasted more!


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