Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Bergman - Revisited_ Dreams (Kvinnodröm) – 1955

Life is mechanical and predictable. You come to this world, you grow up, youth passes by, get an education and a job or a ‘dream’ career, leave middle age behind, retire, get old and contract some diseases – then die.



Perhaps in the very beginning, ‘Dreams’ {1955} the 15th film by Ingmar Bergman, relates the mechanicalness of life to the tick-tock of a clock. It also symbolizes that like time, life ticks away. Meanwhile between on and off of life, a series of anecdotes are experienced.

The work portrays men as weak and the women suffer. It also shows people trying to escape from their present existence to form newer relationships, if not in reality then through their dreams and fantasies, resulting in failure and humiliation.




Ultimately people make the best of their situations and continue to exist. 






One can’t live on dreams - you have to scurry back to reality.









Here is another slice of life by Ingmar Bergman.





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