Wild Strawberries
Movie: 1957, b/w, 91 min. (Sweden)
- Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Victor Sjöström
Tiny synopsis: A bitter aging professor has come face to face with the reality of the emptiness of his life.
What is the theme of Wild Strawberries?
The theme of Wild Strawberries is about how life can become sort of withered and shrunken, a bit dull and uncreative, something that is habit from generation to generation. Bergman’s kind of message about this is kind of ironic and humorous even though the film is far from that sort of tone. What Bergman is saying is that in almost any case in which this empty life theory is applicable to a person, the person has no idea it is happening to them.
What triggers Isak’s journey of self-recognition?
The trigger of Isak’s self-recognition journey is the coincidental pairing of Marianne, Isak’s daughter-in-law and himself in the car for a long journey in which Marianne confronts him of his values and family traditions. Her honest confrontation sets off this realization that his life is in fact vacant and dull.
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