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Ingmar Bergman

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CercatoreDelDio
Apr 14 2004
07:40 pm

Ingmar Bergman’s A Film Trilogy.

What are your thoughts on:

a) their message

b) their spiritual value

c) their validity as an actual trilogy

Feel free to talk about any other Bergman experiences in this thread. I love him and am interested in anyone’s ideas about him.

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GandalfTheory
Apr 16 2004
07:37 pm

a) their message: I like the whole idea of portraying the search for God in that style. It was really unique. It speaks to people on many different levels too, Christian and not.

b) their spiritual value: I think that they can really speak to a Christian these days. The second one is the most powerful in that way. The idea of seeking God through the interactions of others is a great concept and Bergman expresses it so beautifully.

c) their validity as an actual trilogy: I don’t really think they are horrifically valid as a trilogy. They’re too loose. Bergman himself, in his later years, said that he could no longer consider them to be one.

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Wilberto
Apr 16 2004
10:48 pm

talking to yourself…………….tsk tsk

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GandalfTheory
Apr 17 2004
12:36 pm

You really should feel stupid Will, that’s not me, but you’re not going to listen.

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grant
Apr 21 2004
10:33 pm

I may be steering this conversation away from its intention, but I’m not enough familiar with Bergman. I saw “Wild Strawberries” and “Persona”. Those were Bergman films, right? Oh, and the one where the guys play that high stakes chess game. Good stuff. Bergman was a former Lutheran, do I have that right? What is his relation to Tarkovsky?(this is the part where I steer off course)

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grant
Oct 13 2006
02:08 pm

Time has passed and I’ve seen many more Bergman films and have developed thoughts on the subject. Just saw The Virgin Spring and thought it was a far cry different from Bergman’s position on God later in life (the trilogy, scenes from a marriage etc.)

I actually like his later approaches much better, though Virgin Spring has such a clear positive message of hope.