Winter Light

What do I say, just wow. Bergman is a genius, a highly intellectual human being, and he explores faith like no one else. Like The Seventh Seal, this film explores God's silence and faith. It is a part of Bergman’s faith trilogy, which all are about God's silence. I can’t wait to watch the rest. I myself believe in God, and I have started believing from myself, not from my parents, any family or friends, but from myself. One thing I have thought about before is God’s silence and everything about this world, how so much suffering and pain could be fixed, yet God still stays silent. And I still believe in God, and I still have questions, questions I won’t have answered on this earth. Bergman portrays this in such a poetic, real, human way, yet it still feels empty, almost silent. Silent like God. It shows the pain and the suffering of the world, the doubt we carry both for ourselves and others, and the doubt we have for God. How someone wants to believe but can’t, how someone loses their belief, how someone struggles with their belief. Either way, whatever relationship or situation a person has with faith, it’s always filled with questions, and probably the most important is about the silence, the silence from God. I have heard people say it juxtaposes my belief or tries to deny faith, and the same goes for The Seventh Seal, but I don’t see them that way, not at all. I see them as a highly intelligent and poetic exploration of faith. The exploration doesn’t give us any answers but asks us questions, questions that might never be answered, at least not while we are alive. Bergman did it again. He impressed me on every level possible, and I can’t wait to see more of his work and the rest of the trilogy. This was an experience I won’t forget, a film I won’t forget, a piece of art I won’t forget. This was an insanely profound piece of cinema, an insanely profound piece of art. 5/5 ⭐