Comparing Wild Strawberries And Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Wild Strawberries is a really interesting film. It starts out with the protagonist Dr. Isak Borg. He has a strange dream that is just the beginning of many dreams/journeys that he’ll go through during the film. The film has a lot of religious undertones and can be compared to another of Ingmar Bergman’s films Seventh Seal. They both show tests of morality and dealing with things that have gone on in the main characters lives. The nightmare at the beginning of the film really shows the depressing life that Isak Borg has been living. He hasn’t been living for anything happy. He’s just been living. He has no enjoyment in his life anymore and spiritual he is already dead. He doesn’t try to reach any sort of enlightenment or fulfillment from his life. This is most likely because of the situations that we see during …show more content…
This is something that helped him get some sort of happiness in his life. It’s like a old person getting a dog. It brings a nice breath of life back into things. After spending more time with them, we start to see a new Isak. He becomes more child-like. This helps him become more prepared to die, or more prepared for the ending of his life at least. He makes him mark on the people that he was traveling with because at the end of the film they come to his house and talk to him outside of his balcony. A film that I believe had a lot of influence from this film was Citizen Kane. I think this because in that movie, It starts off with the death of Charles Kane. Then it goes back to the early memories of him and then goes all the way through his life going through everything that he went through in his life. They both have dark feelings of them. And in Wild Strawberries, Isak watches over his life as he walks through his subconscious. He walks through all of the events of his life and I believe that Orson Welles got a lot of his influence from this
Wild Strawberries is a really interesting film. It starts out with the protagonist Dr. Isak Borg. He has a strange dream that is just the beginning of many dreams/journeys that he’ll go through during the film. The film has a lot of religious undertones and can be compared to another of Ingmar Bergman’s films Seventh Seal. They both show tests of morality and dealing with things that have gone on in the main characters lives. The nightmare at the beginning of the film really shows the depressing life that Isak Borg has been living. He hasn’t been living for anything happy. He’s just been living. He has no enjoyment in his life anymore and spiritual he is already dead. He doesn’t try to reach any sort of enlightenment or fulfillment from his life. This is most likely because of the situations that we see during …show more content…
This is something that helped him get some sort of happiness in his life. It’s like a old person getting a dog. It brings a nice breath of life back into things. After spending more time with them, we start to see a new Isak. He becomes more child-like. This helps him become more prepared to die, or more prepared for the ending of his life at least. He makes him mark on the people that he was traveling with because at the end of the film they come to his house and talk to him outside of his balcony. A film that I believe had a lot of influence from this film was Citizen Kane. I think this because in that movie, It starts off with the death of Charles Kane. Then it goes back to the early memories of him and then goes all the way through his life going through everything that he went through in his life. They both have dark feelings of them. And in Wild Strawberries, Isak watches over his life as he walks through his subconscious. He walks through all of the events of his life and I believe that Orson Welles got a lot of his influence from this