The Touch (1971)
Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
This is one of Bergman's movies that bombed in the box office. Perhaps because its storyline is somehow bizarre, but then it does not create the kind of cerebral exercise that his films generally generate. It is said that the story is self-explanatory with a sort of poetic justice attached to it. The audiences are left as passive absorbers of the narration.
Andreas, a doctor, (Max Von Sydow) and Karin (Bibi Anderson), a homemaker are happily married with 2 preteen daughters.
Andreas invites his patient, David, for dinner. David, an American archaeologist, was in town to excavate an ancient statue of Mother Mary. Slowly, for no particular reason, Karin, a devoted mother starts a scandalous affair with David. We soon discover that David is a neurotic, abusive individual with baggage of disturbed childhood growing escaping the Holocaust.
Pretty soon, Karin (and David) become obsessed with their relationship, acting like teenagers in love. Her husband and children discover her clandestine activity, and on top of that, she is pregnant.
The irony of the whole scenario is how Andrea reacts to the news of her affair. He states that they should be civilised about the entire issue and go separate ways.
I thought that to be civilised means to understand one responsibility and to respect that respect should be reciprocated. Unfortunately, more often than not, to be civilised is often construed as having total freedom to express oneself, emphasising more on individual needs than the consensus of the age-old, albeit arcane beliefs. These appear primitive, but at least it managed to maintain equilibrium and assigns duties and responsibilities to one for their action. No one is neglected and is somebody's headache! To be uncivilised means to be not man (or woman) to wise up to your duties or to own up to the mess you created.
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Pretty soon, Karin (and David) become obsessed with their relationship, acting like teenagers in love. Her husband and children discover her clandestine activity, and on top of that, she is pregnant.
The irony of the whole scenario is how Andrea reacts to the news of her affair. He states that they should be civilised about the entire issue and go separate ways.
I thought that to be civilised means to understand one responsibility and to respect that respect should be reciprocated. Unfortunately, more often than not, to be civilised is often construed as having total freedom to express oneself, emphasising more on individual needs than the consensus of the age-old, albeit arcane beliefs. These appear primitive, but at least it managed to maintain equilibrium and assigns duties and responsibilities to one for their action. No one is neglected and is somebody's headache! To be uncivilised means to be not man (or woman) to wise up to your duties or to own up to the mess you created.
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