Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by tinear (A) on January 17, 2009 at 11:32:32

In Reply to: RE: Pauline Kael brilliantly puts Bergman into perspective in her posted by Cosmic Closet on January 17, 2009 at 10:16:10

and for attempting to place great, ponderous, importance upon second-rate philosophizing. His self-absorbed, self-pitying characters which change names from film to film (during a rather long middle-period in his career) but carry on with leaden angst, lead to a dead end, both emotionally and philosophically. It is as if Hamlet had committed suicide and not valiantly confronted his ghosts. It is this pessimism, this nihilism, which undermines many of his films.
I'd like a little sugar if I'm forced to drink battery acid.