Cries and Whispers
Agnes’ unconditional appreciation and joy towards what she assumed was genuine support from her dear sisters and Anna, before slowly, loudly and painfully dying while still forcing herself to believe she isn’t alone as her bedroom is always filled with someone she loves so much was just so heart breaking to see.
But dying Agnes witnessing just like us how lost her close ones are, how alone that makes her, but refusing to also believe that she is because why would she be ? After all her sisters and her grew up together and loved each others for years so surely she shouldn’t be alone during the most painful time of her life.
Karin, whom I highly felt sort of seen in, drowning more and more as the days passes in anger—and it getting stronger the more she sees her sisters who are both oh so blinded by different things.
Her unable to contain her now so strong emotions, being forced to believe witnessed while in her most vulnerable moment.
And her just allowing herself to feel her emotions for once, sharing them with Maria, thinking maybe she’s not that unworthy anymore as she’s her sister who’s also human like everyone else, who perhaps changed after seeing Agnes pass—before realising she also was blinded (just like the two she despised for) as Maria keeps on ignoring her so strongly while reassuring her with words that ache with hypocrisy.
And Maria, Maria—who’s constantly lost, really. Especially in a situation where she’s powerless but also doesn’t really mind being as she doesn’t care for Agnes that much. But she cares about trying to force herself to, so much that she managed to make herself believe she was a good person, and she did everything she could for her dying sister. Maria, who seek Karin’s vulnerability, venting her feelings to her while waiting for hers to come out too.
And Anna drowning in sorrow and grief, unable to comprehend how sisters could give up on one of their own, before her mind gets drowned by the silhouette of her daughter and seeing her in Agnes.
All four sincerely loveable characters. All four committed wrongs and all four were able to get a taste of the other’s pains and weaknesses, some were just refusing to see them, others to feel.