Thursday 29 July 2010

Bergman and Scenes from a Marriage

Let me just release this thoughts hovering in my head.

I'd had such an outburst relief and gratitude of the film, Another Woman, by Woody Allen, and followed his inspiration for the film, Wild Strawberries by Bergman, which I loved most amongst Bergman’s other well-respected films that bored me and failed me to watch them to the end. However I got very excited about this film titled, Scenes from a Marriage.
After watching some of his best known films, despite being so curious about the film for its title I hesitated to see this for months. It was just because, I got so sick of this woman, Liv Ullmann.
I think, for now, I will have no regret to see her face in any kind of film or any other media. I totally totally hate her face. She has this, such an irritating artificial layer that prevents my emotional appreciation of the person she impersonates. Her acting is overrated.
And I am thinking it may be the reason why it didn't worry me at all when I thought I wanted to watch 'Wild Strawberries' again. She is in almost every film of Bergman but he hadn't found her just yet at the time.
However, anyway, tonight, I thought I was being absurd not watching the film if I really wanted to know what my favourite film director had to say about marriage or possibly any kind of committed relationship. It doesn't matter who's in it, does it?
I am not sure if it is quite right to say that I loved the film. But I must say that it was very well executed. I would say that I enjoyed comparing my view and Bergman's. And the pathetic story of, probably, most people's marriage as I gather, reassured myself that my assumption and understanding about most marriages are fair.

There is this girl I have known for a year and an half or so. I think she is good at making good first impression on people and also makes an effort to be in continuous contact with you. And this is how I got into a 'keeping in touch' with her up until now. I am not saying she is no good after all. In fact, she is polite (in her own way and in most commonly expected and acceptable way) and kind (also in her very own way and in most commonly expected and acceptable way). She is an upbeat driven artist, who makes abstract paintings which are about 'spiritual, physical and literal containment of improvisational moments of creation'. She is obviously 'concerned with the representation of the inner world and attempts to harness the inner movement of life, which is inspired by the realm of nature and spirit, in order to create image from the inner world, that lies somewhere between creation and existence'.
At first I was slightly zealous of her being happily married and doing very well to pursue her career as a professional artist.
The more I get to see her with her husband the more sceptical I have become. (To be continued)