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In Reply to: Wild Strawberries… “A – Swedish – Christmas Carol”? A “Scrooge” of the soul? Or…? posted by sjb on March 18, 2007 at 18:36:11:
...if you look at many of his films through that light, you´ll get a hint of his search, which certainly was honest and coming from the deepest of him.Now, if you look at "Wild Strawberries" again, this time keeping in mind how the Anima contributes to enrich a man´s soul and life, and how barren both can become when the Anima is repressed or, at times worse, neglected; and how, in our psychic life, those aspects of our psyche that we leave aside, or which we repressed during our development, will come back once and again, under different guises, until we finally either accept them and pay them what is due, unless we become dry and die, then your vision will be enriched, and the old man´s dreams, visions, pentimenti, and whatever happens to him in that wonderful film, will make sense..., as the resonances it awakes in your own soul will, too.
A road movie in search of Isak´s soul, with his Anima leading the way would be a fitting description of this gem. And his final surrender of his ego, which doesn´t result in the catastrophe he always feared, but in him becoming a better, deeper, richer man, is depicted in a simply magisterial way, with the confluence of both the external situation and what is dwelling its way towards the light inside him being perfectly timed...
In short, one of the best films ever done. And one I sincerely expect Hollywood never to put its hands on to "remake"it.
There´s more in it, of course. But these were my 2 cents.
Regards
BF
Follow Ups:
I focused more on my idea that, externally he wasn't actually this cold hearted and cruel person... just that the repression of his psyche (and failures in love) made him believe that he was -- in that shadow side (those words, of course, being left unsaid).I just believe that for this particular story it was the rejection by Sarah that was central to his psychic repression (and that this shadow was a more internal self perception than an external perception of others towards him).
He clearly HAD to go through that pshycic journey or - closer to what I wrote - journey of his psyche.
I may well be wrong about the idea that the shadow side of him which was leaping forward out its repression was more about his perception of himself (from the part of him that was damaged) than the perception of him by others... and that in the confluence of the external and internal he discovered that he was in fact loved and not viewed as some monster (from the external) and that he was really okay, a decent human being (from the internal) but I definitely saw that this - this shadow illuminating journey - was what was occuring.
It's a big part of why I liked the movie so much (and am looking forward to the next one of his I see).
Don't piss on my shoe and tell me it's raining.
f
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