The Persona of Ingmar Bergman by Barbara Young

Author:Barbara Young
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2012-07-17T16:00:00+00:00

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In creating this film, Bergman was preparing himself for a reunion with his parents. Karin lovingly shares her intense yearning to go into her peaceful world behind the wallpaper with her brother Minus, but as he leaves her, she angrily dismisses him: “Get out!” This is Bergman’s early relationship with his mother: times of intimacy in bed with her, and then an icy “Get out!” And Minus’s delight, “Father talked to me!” is Bergman’s reminder to himself of his constant longing for his father ever since he exiled his parents to Siberia when he was in his early twenties. However, by stubbornly punishing them for the damage they had caused him, he had frozen himself in his own Siberia.

Now Bergman was back in Stockholm. His mother was appealing for his return. His parents were getting old and needed his assistance; his brother lived in Greece and was seriously handicapped with the progressive muscular degeneration he had inherited; his sister was married and living in England. And—because they were his parents—they knew that their son needed them. Before they died, they wanted an opportunity to apologize to him as David did to Karin. They knew that their son could not heal himself as long as he could not understand why they had been as they were, as long as he could not understand that they were fallible human beings who had had their own childhood misfortunes. In his heart, Bergman knew this as well. He had been making notes in his diary for Through a Glass Darkly over a considerable period of time before he wrote the script—girding his loins for the reunion with his parents.

The same year Through a Glass Darkly was released, his mother had her first heart attack. From that time on, Bergman began to spend more time with his parents as they aged. “Gradually they were transformed into human beings of normal proportions, and the infantile, bitter hatred was dissolved and disappeared. Then we were able to meet in a mood of affection and mutual understanding.”[11]

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