What Bergman does so well is to offer us, the audience, a kind of blatant truth with his filmmaking. All along the line, there's nothing but cold and death and loneliness. And Evald is growing just as lonely, cold, and dead. And this is her son, and there are light-years between them. An old woman, cold as ice, more forbidding than death. In this scene, the similarities between the three generations become all too clear, and Marianne proclaims: During their exchange, his daughter-in-law Marianne observes a sense of emotional detachment, recognizable too in Isak and her own husband, Evald. Bergman then offers us an exquisitely dreamlike transition into the past, revealing that Evald has refused Marianne a child, providing her with a cruel ultimatum. There are evident parallels to be drawn here with the conversation had between Isak Borg and his daughter-in-law Marianne, played by Ingrid Thulin. Towards the end of their journey, Isak visits his 98-year-old Mother.
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