Word: papagena
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...mouth shut and persevere--Tamino's technique of closing his eyes worked much better. When Papageno learns he will not be allowed to enter the Order, he merely shrugs his shoulders and says that instead of wisdom he'd much prefer a glass a wine. He does get his Papagena; they are the picture of bourgeois happiness as they twitter and kiss and plan a large family...
...Mozart meant to celebrate the common man's virtues as well as the prince's, to suggest that a certain kind of lofty nobleness of character is not for everyone. Bergman took this view so much to heart that he ended the film with his own vision: Papageno and Papagena embracing in a circle of lively, tow-headed kids...
...times of stress provides comedy relief. The two men, sensing they have been duped by the Queen of the Night, give themselves over to Sarastro's trial of honor. Their reward is true love: Tamino is immediately enamored of Pamina, Papageno swept away by a fey creature named Papagena (Elisabeth Eriksson...
...from being just directorial legerdemain - though they are that - such touches reflect Bergman's continual preoccupation with the stuff of illusion. This obsession links such disparate films as The Magician (1959) and Persona (1966). There are soft shadows of many other Bergman scenes and themes: Papageno and Papagena's indomitable exuberance recalls the peasant couple at the end of The Seventh Seal (1956); the air of blithe innocence and sudden mystery evokes the elegant reveries of Smiles of a Summer Night...
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