Bergman - Revisited_‘This Can't Happen Here’ – 1950 (Sånt händer inte här)

‘This Can't Happen Here’ – 1950 (Sånt händer inte här) is somehow an odd, eighth, un-Bergman film throwing in conspiracy, connivance, endeavoring to bump off people, and secret envoys.

No wonder, Ingmar Bergman being a serious man, this film looked like a joke and the title suits the film. Expected much from Bergman – but this was a stupid movie. Period.

Bergman - Revisited_Thirst (Törst) – 1949

Inescapable, difficult and doomed human relationships, the title “Thirst” (Törst - 1949) interprets human being as thirsty for anything which will alleviate his existential restlessness.

Human beings trying to escape the drudgery of existence in brief moments of miserable relationship, with extra marital affairs ending in abortion, frustration from existence, Lesbianism, hysterical women, dominant men, threshold of nervous breakdown and suicide reflects an ongoing pattern of Bergman plunging himself into the hopelessness of life

In the middle of the film we see at last a little bit of joy from Bergman when he displays ‘joie de vivre’ in the theatre whilst the girls dance to old ragtime music. Probably the only piece of radiance so far leading to his 7th film.

Bergman - Revisited_Prison (Fängelse) – 1949

Prison (Swedish: Fängelse) – 1949, by Ingmar Bergman was the 6th Film where he exposes us to an idea that a film can be made on hell; the sentimental and fearful can always look for consolidation in the church; the bored, tired and indifference can commit suicide; the devil will support the people’s interest in religion and the church which anyways has for a long time worked in his interest; life from birth to death is a great work of art – beautiful and terrible at the same time, without mercy and meaning; the devil is nothing but a symbol, reigning in the hell that is earth.

With melancholic scenes, failed romance, forced prostitution, attempted suicides and finally suicide, along with the Studio Lights going off - Prison scrapes through time and mind treating us like rabbits in a magician’s hat.

A message blasts out - "Life Itself is a terminal illness"


A great film with an awesome dream sequence, except a feeling creeps in that the script was heavy and some of the actors were not able to bear the burden of the film.

Bergman - Revisited_Port of Call (1948) (Hamnstad)

The 5th and a claustrophobic film by Bergman - Port of Call (1948) (Hamnstad) immediately delves into the unpleasantness of life, into a suicide attempt caused invariable by depression and the past, the everyday struggle of man for bare essentials, the manipulative-dysfunctional-dominating mother, the familial disconnect, Sardonic thoughts against women and justice, insensitivity of human beings, drunken rampaging rage, the intricacies of human existence, a desire to sail away and to see ‘a lot of things’, working on jobs that you don’t like just to maintain existence, dissenting against social authority, abortion, broken home, correctional house, endeavoring to eliminate loneliness, the pursuit of personal freedom and from loneliness.

Being a loner is not a terrible thing, but feeling lonely is an appalling thing to happen to any human being.


Bergman takes us to his cinematic world, a place where the stresses of the world can be relieved – a medium where the pressures of existence is alleviated

Bergman - Revisited_‘Music in Darkness’ (1948) (Musik i mörker)

The 4th Film ‘Music in Darkness’ (1948) (Musik i mörker) by Ingmar Bergman shows in the beginning, Birger Malmsten having a nightmare and being groped by several arms into a swamp like puddle.

This is a reminder of a scene from Satyajit Ray’s Nayak (1966) when in a dream sequence Arindam (Uttam Kumar) sinks in a quicksand of money.

Melancholic scenes of despair, misery, disability, helplessness, suffering, exploitation, class difference, inconsequentiality, blindness leading to alienation, bitterness, the breaking down of upper class ego, pleading, plummeting into darkness callousness !

Revisited - Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) .

Only three films into Ingmar Bergman's Crisis (1946) (Kris) / It Rains on Our Love (1946) (Det regnar på vår kärlek) and A Ship to India (1947) (Skepp till Indialand) and he has delved into isolation, poverty, desperation, loneliness, cruelty, brutality, manipulation, fear, anxiety, remoteness, spitefulness, wretchedness, humiliation, rejection – 42 movies yet to go !!!

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