The Internal Power To Resist Abusive Treatment By A Family Member, A Stranger Or An Anti-Democratic Society Grows Together With The Very Experience Of Resistance – From Ingmar Bergman’s “Fanny and Alexander” (1981)
06 Jul 2018
Posted by Victor-Katia as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Examples of Semantic Richness of Cinematic narrations, The Internal Power To Resist Abusive Treatment Grows Together With The Very Experience Of Resistance From Ingmar Bergman’s “Fanny and Alexander” (1981)
The Psychological Dynamics of A Young Or Even An Older Person’s Resistance To A Repressive Or An Oppressive Society Is Similar To That Of A Child’s Resistance To The Despotism Of An Adult Family Member Alexander (Bertil Guve) (in the part of the film, dedicated to his confrontation with the Bishop Edvard Vergerus – Jan […]
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