Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
Lars Passgård: Minus, son
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Fredrik : Father, I'm scared. When I was hugging Karin in the boat, reality was revealed. Do you know what I mean?
David : I do.
Fredrik : Reality was revealed, and I collapsed. It's like a dream. Anything can happen. Anything.
David : I know.
Fredrik : I can't live in this new world.
David : Yes, you can. But you must have a support.
Fredrik : What kind of support? You mean a God? Give me a proof of his existance. You can't.
David : I can. But you gotta pay attention to what I say.
Fredrik : Yes. I need to listen.
David : I can only tell you a thought of my own hopes. It is to know that love exists for real in the human world.
Fredrik : A sort of special love, I suppose?
David : All kinds of it. The bigger and the smaller, the most absurd one and the most sublime one. All kinds of love.
Fredrik : What about the desire for love?
David : Desire and denying. Trust and distrust.
Fredrik : Then love is the proof?
David : I don't know if love is the proof of God's existance or if it's God itself.
Fredrik : To you, love and God are the same thing.
David : That thought makes me feel less empty; Makes my desperation less worse.
Fredrik : Go on, dad.
David : All of a sudden, emptiness turns into abundance, and desperation turns into life. It's like a temporary death's sentence strike.
Fredrik : Dad... if it's like how you say it is, then God is all over Karin. We love her so much.
David : Yes.
Fredrik : Can't that help her?
David : I think so.
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[last lines]
Fredrik : Papa spoke to me.
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[Fredrik rejects Karin's attempt to console him]
Fredrik : Thanks, I can give myself all the pity I want.
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Fredrik : Hey! Be careful now. Keep away from me. Stop hugging and kissing me. Stop sunbathing half naked. You disgust me. You know very well what I mean. Women are horrible. How they smell and move around, how they stick out their stomachs, how they comb their hair and talk. Makes me feel like a skinned rabbit!
Karin : Poor boy.
Fredrik : Thanks. I can give myself all the pity I want.
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Fredrik : Oblivion shall own me and death alone shall love me.
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Fredrik : [during the play] l face the moment of ultimate perfection. l tremble with anticipation. Oblivion shall own me and death alone shall love me. l will go. Nothing can stop me.
Karin : l am waiting.
Fredrik : Ye devils, what am l about to do? Sacrifice my life? For what? For eternity? For the perfect work of art? For love? Have l gone mad?
Karin : l am waiting.
Fredrik : Who shall see my sacrifice? Death. Who shall gauge the depth of my love? A ghost. And who shall thank me? Eternity.
Karin : l am waiting.
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Karin : l must choose between him and the others. l've made up my mind. l've sacrificed Martin.
Fredrik : ls all this for real?
Karin : l don't know. l'm caught in the middle, and sometimes l'm uncertain. l know l've been ill and that my illness was like a dream. But these are no dreams. They must be real. They must be real.
Fredrik : They're not real for me, not in the least. Karin. They're not real for me.
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Karin : l enter a large room. lt's bright and peaceful. People are moving back and forth. Some of them talk to me and l understand them. lt's so nice, and l feel safe. ln some of their faces there's a shining light. Everyone is waiting for him to come, but no one is anxious. They say that l can be there when it happens.
Fredrik : Why are you crying?
Karin : lt's nothing. Nothing to worry about. But, sometimes l have this intense yearning. l long for that moment... when the door will open, and all the faces will turn to him.
Fredrik : Who is coming?
Karin : No one has said for certain. But l think it's God who will reveal himself to us. That it will be him coming into the room through that door.
