FREE ESSAY ON WILD STRAWBERRYS

WILD STRAWBERRYS

Wild Strawberrys has a special technique that is used in it and this thchnique is the use
of a dream sequence. In these dream sequences Isak walks through a desolate city, and is
approached by a faceless man, he sees a clock without hands, and watches a funeral wagon
crash and leave a coffin in the middle of the street. As he nears the coffin, it opens,
and the corpse , being Isak once again, emerges and attempts to pull him into the
afterlife. The visual and audio symbolism is disturbing, and the entire scene is
perfectly incorporated into the 'reality' of the rest of the film. One level of the plot
is the dreams representing a journey that takes Isak back home to his past summers
In the first dream, there is a representation of hearts as clocks beating and
stopping.there is a coffin image as powerful as the shower scene in Psycho, the dream
announces the end-of-life in which Isak finds himself.