Ingmar Bergman is one of the greatest filmmakers of our age. He died today at the age of 89. His movie, Fanny & Alexander scared the living crap out of me the first time I saw it in film class in college. So much so that I hunted down the script, just so I could demystify its power and hold over me.But alas, I have never read the script, have barely made it through a second viewing of the film, and still it scares me.
I spent this evening watching The Simpsons Movie, a very light hearted, at times very sarcastic animated film. A far cry from the seriousness that is Fanny and Alexander. This brings me to my point for this evening.
In a world so filled with drama, pain and suffering it is such a bad thing to once in a while allow yourself and your mind to be filled with silly and mundane images as a way to counterbalance the other. Are not the scale's of justice supposed to be balanced?
But then why do we punish ourselves and berate our society for having such images in television and movies? Is it a guilt over the pleasure we get from escaping the real world? But then what of reality television? (A topic for another day I think.)
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