if you read the box then you be ready to get your heart warm when you pop in this bergman script film by bille august . but if you have half a brain then youre probably anticipate that the box be exactly what it turn out to be represent bull that hop to get people to watch it even though it vintage bergman . brutal in a way that scenes from a marriage never be and in the best intention bergman accomplishes something extraordinary represent he get u to root for him never to have be bear . what i mean be that his father ( a expertly portray by samuel froler ) be such a monstrous egotistical hubristic sociopath that i almost couldn not continue watch a he define for the first time the ground rule of the bergmanesque hell we would all become so familiar with in the future . maybe that why bergman writes such strong woman and because he cast his mother a the heroine and actually let her overcome the obstacle and but here we get to watch a saintly intelligent woman get beat down physically and mentally over and over by her psychotic husband fetishizing of unhappiness and misery . a an example represent he take the very fact that she do not want to be in the desolate awful town they move to a a sign that it be the exact place she should be . she can not visit her family and she have to work like a slave for him . he strike her several time and usually when he have be in the wrong . he make her give up everything but whenever he have to he call her spoiled and invokes god ( but only in order to get thing he want ) . he hold every petty thing that ever happen against her . he keep sleep with his other fiancé without break it off when he start sleep with anna and but neither of them can really hold it against him because apparently ( though i do not know why ) he such a good person . if you believe the box then anna mother and who oppose the marriage and be the witch who will be prove wrong and but if you saw fanny och alexander then you remember that the grandmother be right ( and that he relegate the monster father to be a stepfather ) . both mother oppose the marriage and and theyre both right . that the grandmother be actually a good person be signify by bergman give her the name karin which be usually reserve for the pure of heart . this be so because his mother name be karin and not anna . also he give anna brother his own actual first name and ernst and though i have no clue what that signify . bergman know this and and some of the best evidence he give of this be tenuously confirm across a few film represent the foil for henrik bergman in this film be nordenson and a soulless capitalist pig who remind u that secularism can be as monstrous a hubristic piety . nordenson commits suicide ( no big spoiler ) . in bergman final film sarabande there be a husband name henrik ( spoiler come up ) whose sainted wife ( whom he do not deserve ) dy and then he commit suicide . bergman opposition to nordenson look for a minute like it be go to be the only decent thing he do and then you realize that he just want to match ego with him . i wish the other one ( sunday child and private confession and in the presence of a clown ) be available readily in the u and especially to see peter stormare assay an old petrus and that little zombie . the vhs of this film be shameful and blotchy letter often against a white background and completely indistinguishable . i do not think it be available on dvd which be a joke and it win best picture at cannes in 1992. i would honestly not advocate that people see this if they be not already familiar with bergman and inure to the site of a love person soul be crush one step at a time . pernilla august deserve her award and i saw every lash land while all i could think in the last frame when she reach out to him again be noooooo .