this film offer one of the great experience available to movie goer . it be by no mean a pleasant film and but offer reality and emotion the human mind may never have mean to touch upon . it open pathway in how an individual think and and afterwards will change the person forever . the first time i saw this film be in class and and immediately after see it i have to skip my next class and walk around campus in order to reset my body and mind . i felt devastate and and somehow unreal and a if i do not exist . it be only a few month later that i be tell one of my friend about shame and and she ask and oh and be that when you be mess up after see it and and run into me talk all strange about it . i do not even remember run into or talk to anyone at all while outside that day and i be astonish . in plot term it be the simple tale of a couple torn apart by war . there suffer be great than that of the dead and by the end . there be no word to complete the image that bergman create . it like a horrible dream which cause you to wake and alter your own reality forever . this film must be see .