Ingmar Bergman on his movie "Shame" - “For a long time before making this film I had carried around the notion of trying to focus on the ‘little war’, the war that exist on the periphery where there is total confusion, and nobody knows what is actually going on. " Ingmar Bergman - Shame (1968) Eva and Jan for example, they’re both artists, they’re well educated people. What did they do when war broke out on the mainland, did they pick a side? No, they ran. Absolving themselves of the war? No, because they’ve ignored their social responsibility and done what most people would do under the circumstances. Things wouldn’t be any better if they had joined a side; neither the authorities nor the rebels are shown in a good light, and both commit atrocities. Even if they protested against the war, by continuing to not take a side eventually they would have to let an innocent person die indirectly through their non-involvement. Basically in war, and a decaying society, no one wins. Humanity in both a literal and metaphoric sense dies and wars flourish because of the indolence of the population.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 05:54:20 +0000