Sunday, October 21, 2007
HETERO CONFUSION
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Films was Ingmar Bergman's
This is said to be Bergman's best but I don't think so.
It is OK but filled with men and women missing the point with one another and only getting it after it is too late to resolve with the person—in life—instead mindfucking it and rehashing.
Liv Ullman and Erland Josephson play a couple who can't get it on and can't end it. They keep seeing one another through affairs and marriages with other people.
It is fascinating because it is Bergman and his actors but it is also nonsense.
Lives wasted on useless games.
And so on.
It starts with the 'men don't get women and v.v. and is complicated with 70's ideas about spontaneity which, in this case, ends up looking more like mental cruelty.
I can't get on board with it.
I see the individuals as basic failures in the spiritual and mental sense.
Maybe that is the point.
Settling for less.
If so, I ain't sympathetic.
And the movie is long. Almost 3 hours.
I will give this a 3 out of Netflix5.
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