5/26/2023 0 Comments Ingmar bergman strawberry![]() ![]() ![]() Still, he can save someone else (the juggler Jof and his wife, Mia) and thus replace his own salvation with that of another, a partial fulfillment of this essential project of return and reappropriation. It is in this return that we find our second chance.įor knight Antonius Block in The Seventh Seal this would be to restore his marriage, but his time is up, and he can only rejoin his wife to await their end together. ![]() For Bergman, this represents a central task of adult life to return to one's past and in some way retrieve something essential in life that has been lost. But in fact what appears to be linear is part of a more complicated journey that in essence starts at home, wanders far away, and finally returns to where it began. It is a trip from one place to another, occupying a single very long day (approximately dawn to dawn). Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal both recount a “final” journey by their central characters. ![]()
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