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...area hit by the quake contains scores of churches--none of which is singularly important on a world scale--that collectively demonstrate Christian ornamentation development," Robert P. Bergman, associate professor of Fine Arts, said yesterday...
Directed and Written by Ingmar Bergman...
...fact, these people with their sometimes boring, occasionally self-serving ruminations and reminiscences are not characters in the conventional sense. They are instruments through which Ingmar Bergman, employing the device of an "investigator," who is mostly an offscreen voice, contemplates an enigma much larger than the causes of a sordid crime. What he is meditating upon is nothing less than the fundamental unknowability of the human soul...
...Ingmar Bergman is nothing if not thorough when he sets about one of his psychological workups, and his title here hints at deeper conclusions than most of his characters reach on the subject that they ponder. If they are "marionettes," then it follows that they are controlled by invisible strings, by forces that the individual himself cannot perceive and that must elude even wise analysis. If this is so, then the whole effort to possess someone else, even in the radical way that Peter used, is absurd, as is the effort to understand it in conventional moral and emotional terms...
...Bergman makes himself very clear on this point in two monologues delivered by Tim, a man who appears, at first, to be a peripheral character. He is Katarina's homosexual business partner, who introduced the murderer to his victim, and who, in examining his motive for so doing, discovers that the strings that moved him are far too tangled for rational explanation. In these arias an actor named Walter Schmidinger does protean work. The rest of the cast is excellent too, but because Tim is the only one who fully grasps Bergman's philosophical idea...