And, we don’t have to wait until old age, as Isak Borg ( Victor Sjostrom) had to do. We see that if we face the dreams and memories living in our child self, we can find our way out. A loneliness predicated on the need to stop emotional time so not to feel anything.Īs we travel with Isak back to his childhood home, we see the chilling effects of his cold mother (and too many siblings in the way.) Yet, Wild Strawberries also brings us a hopeful note in vivid black and white. Every psychoanalyst knows how our childhoods slumber within each waking and dreaming moment of our lives, creating their repercussions. And, some live inside the echoes of a cold mother. “One sleeps in one’s childhood’s shoes,” Bergman remembers Swedish poet Maria Wine, saying, and “that was the real starting point of Wild Strawberries.” (p.
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