The Virgin Spring |
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[Jungfrukällan]
Director Starring |
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(This one’s spoiler-heavy.)
Although the rape and revenge scenes are tame by today’s standards, I found them deeply disturbing because of the raw emotion and blind innocence Bergman imbued in them. The ending is kind of a maddeningly simple pro-Christian argument, but a) I think it’s interesting that Tore is disinterested in religion, perhaps is even a quiet atheist through most of the film (he doesn’t consider it for a moment when Ingeri says she literally willed the rape and murder to happen), and then his brutal revenge brings him back to God — sick, very interesting: the girl’s “sacrifice” so her parents could learn valuable lessons; b) whatever, it’s the Middle Ages anyway. Anyway, exquisite, powerful film. One of Bergman’s best, and certainly my favorite before he changed focus with the ‘trilogy.’
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