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The time between midnight and dawn when most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are most palatable. It is the hour when the sleepless… - Ingmar Bergman
" "The time between midnight and dawn when most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are most palatable. It is the hour when the sleepless are pursued by their sharpest anxieties, when ghosts and demons hold sway. The hour of the wolf is also the hour when most children are born.
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About Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish director, screenwriter, and producer whose unique cinematographic style made him one of the most notable directors of the twentieth century.
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Humiliation
Abasement of pride
An artist whose work explores human existence will sooner or later arrive at the theme of humiliation. For Bergman, it did not take long for him to approach the leitmotif. Already present in his 1944 Torment screenplay, the theme of humiliation can be found in most of his work. “To humiliate and be humiliated, I think is a crucial element in our whole social structure,” he told Swedish critic Torsten Manns in an 1970 interview published in the book Bergman on Bergman. His way of tackling the subject is often to show characters being denigrated, like the unsparing emasculation of the clown Frost in the opening scenes of Sawdust and Tinsel or the exam to which Isak Borg is subjected in his final dream in Wild Strawberries.This latter scene is a kind of dressing down of Isak as he is unable to to make any sense of what is asked of him.
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