Ever wonder what it would be like to have burning oil dumped on your head? This film would have cleaned up at the 1472 Cannes Film Festival. If you’re religious or at least appreciate a good moral bludgeoning now and then, by all means, this sermon is for you.

Lessons include:

1) Don’t make your parents stay up at night worrying about you.
2) Don’t lose control, especially when you’re enacting your revenge.
If you’re not of the moral persuasion, then this is a hard pill to swallow. You’ll say, “this movie was worse than one of those big, uncooperative rolls of public toilet paper, the ones where you have to pull off one square of tissue at a time.” You do know that is on purpose. Nevertheless, I suppose everyone must see at least on Bergman film in their lifetime. Now it’s your turn.

Note: This was the first Bergman film I saw. My opionion has since evolved a bit.



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