Stockholm, Arlanda International Airport, Zhang Ran met Marinilou, the director of Swedish television. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Bergman is a reclusive and does not like to meet guests, she is one of the few people who has gained Bergman's trust, and the documentary "Bergman's Island" released in '04 is her work.

From Arlanda Airport, the pair flew southeast in a small twin-propeller plane to Visby 40 minutes later, and then drove north from Visby Airport to the ferry terminal on the Faroe Strait after more than 50 kilometres.

Standing on the pier, Zhang Ran saw the island in the middle of the sea, which is the holy place in the hearts of many filmmakers, Faroe Island. In my memory, Tang Wei's wedding took place on this island.

In 1960, for the film "Through the Dark Glass", Bergman and the photographer came to Faroe Island to see the scenery. At that time, the island was a secret Swedish military base, and visitors were not allowed to visit the island. He had planned to shoot in Scotland's Orkney Islands, but in order to save money, the producers asked him to come to Faroe Island to see it. Bergman came with the idea of "just going to see, coming back to explain, filming or going to Orkney", but fell in love here.

He then filmed four feature films and two documentaries on the island, bought some old houses and converted them into residences, studios, and cinemas, and settled here in his later years, where he was buried after his death.

Crossing the strait on a ferry, Marinello drove around the island, and after a long turn, finally stopped in front of a shaded courtyard.

The courtyard has the feel of a farmhouse compound in the countryside, and the outside of the yard is a stone fence with barbed wire. In front of the courtyard was erected a sign that read "Private Domain". As soon as Zhang Ran and the others approached the courtyard, the radio sounded: "This is private territory, please leave!"

Marinilou led Zhang Ran to the front of the courtyard and stopped, picked up her mobile phone and made a call.

After three or four minutes, an old man in a coffee-colored jacket came out of the courtyard on crutches. When Marinilou saw it, she immediately smiled: "Mr. Bergman!"

Zhang Ran looked at it intently, it was indeed Bergman, but he was much older than the photos he had seen, and he was in his old age, and even his body was a little rickety.

Bergman got closer and closer, and soon came to the two of them. He looked at Zhang Ran and asked Marinilou, "Is he the director Scorsese said?"

"Yes, Mr. Bergman!" Mari Nilou hurriedly introduced, "He is Zhang Ran, the director of "The Aviator"!"

Zhang Ran hurriedly stepped forward to say hello: "Hello, Mr. Bergman! I'm Zhang Ran, it's a great honor to meet you!"

Bergman looked at Zhang Ran, turned around and walked towards the house on crutches, and said as he walked, "Come in!"

Zhang Ran and Marina followed Bergman, walked into the courtyard, took off their shoes in the antechamber, and walked into the room. The hall of the house is large, but when there is a lot of furniture in the room, it gives people a cramped feeling.

Bergman beckoned Zhang Ran and them to sit down, half-squinted his eyes, and spoke to himself: "I don't like to meet guests, but I want to see you, do you know why?"

Zhang Ran shook his head: "I don't know." To be honest, I never dreamed that I would have the opportunity to come to Faroe Island to meet you. I know a lot of people want to see you, but they've all been denied!"

Bergman looked at Zhang Ran and said, "I see my own shadow in you!"

Zhang Ran felt inexplicable, whether it was his film style or his style of doing things, he was very different from Bergman, and couldn't help asking: "Why do you say that?"

Bergman didn't answer, but smiled, "I had a very stupid dream that I didn't know how to fiddle with the camera when I showed up on set. The point is, I've been making movies for years, so how can I not know how to fiddle with the camera? I've had this dream many times, have you ever had a similar dream?"

Zhang Ran's heart almost stopped beating, and it took a while for a sentence to pop out: "I've done it!"

Bergman looked at Zhang Ran, his eyes were as sharp as a sword, and he could penetrate people's hearts: "So I saw my own shadow in you." ”

Zhang Ran said in a deep voice: "But I still don't understand. ”

Bergman's expression became serious: "Your heart is full of fear, but you are running away from it. In fact, it is not terrible to have fear in the heart, but only those who have no fear are terrible, such people are not hindered, but they are prone to do extreme and paranoid things, and only with fear can there be restraint and awe. ”

Zhang Ran's body trembled slightly, and he looked at Bergman in horror, yes, his heart was full of fear, but he buried this fear very deeply and never refused to disclose it, even Zhang Jingchu didn't know. He always thought he was hiding well, but Bergman had never met him at all, but he had seen through his heart. At this moment, the first reaction in his heart was that this old man was a monster! His eyes couldn't help flashing, and his expression was a little panicked: "How do you know?"

Bergman smiled faintly: "It's the feeling that your film conveys to me." Almost all of your films have one intention, and that is dreams. Actually, there are a lot of dreams in my films, and at first I thought that some of my movies were dreams, and some of them were dreams. When I turned 60, I suddenly realized that all my works were dreams, projections of my inner fear and loneliness!"

Zhang Ran stared at Bergman for a long second, and said in a trembling voice: "I don't know what your fear is?"

Bergman did not hide: "My fears came from my childhood, and the world of my childhood was devoid of love. My father talked about God's love in church all day long, but at home he didn't talk about it. There is only resentment between the family. My mother's red apricot went out of the wall, and my parents' fights and quarrels destroyed my faith in God and love. So, all my life, love was absent. I don't feel love for anyone or anything, and I don't feel the same for myself. I lived with hatred for decades. Bergman looked at Zhang Ran and asked, "What about you, what are you afraid of?"

Zhang Ran breathed a sigh of relief, not what he thought, Bergman is not a reborn! He hesitated for a few seconds, and said slowly: "There was a philosopher named Zhuangzi in ancient China, and one day Zhuangzi dreamed that he had become a butterfly and danced, not knowing that he was Zhuangzi. When he woke up from a dream, he found that it was Zhuangzi lying stiffly in bed. So Zhuangzi was very puzzled, I don't know whether Zhuangzi dreamed and became a butterfly, or if the butterfly dreamed and became Zhuangzi. That's the biggest fear in my heart, like in The Matrix, not knowing if everything in front of me is real. He sighed slightly: "Maybe the real me is lying on the verge of death in the hospital bed, and everything in front of me is just a dream of mine." ”

Zhang Ran is a reborn, and his fear comes from being reborn. Is the so-called rebirth real? Is everything now just a dream? Just like in the movie "Life and Death", everything is just a hallucination that I saw before I die, or I am lying in the hospital, and everything is just my own dream.

In fact, for a long time, he was not afraid, but excited. The memories of the next ten years can make it easy to succeed on your own, which is simply a dream thing. But as he became more and more successful, he slowly became worried. The fear of all this is not real, the fear that the so-called rebirth is just a dream.

People are like this, the more you have, the more you are afraid of losing!

Bergman was a little surprised: "This is a big philosophical proposition, I can't answer it." But for a long time I was afraid, afraid of death. As an image, the Grim Reaper often appears in my films, and that is a projection of my inner fear. After the death of my wife, Ingrid, I came to believe that death is a reunion and not a permanent departure. Whenever I think of what Ingrid will be waiting for me on the other side of the world, I become no longer afraid, but full of faith. Bergman stared at Zhang Ran: "Do your family love you? Do you love them?"

"Yes, my father and mother loved me and I loved them. ”

"What about lovers, do you love them?"

"I have a girlfriend who is a very nice girl and I love her. ”

"Then you are happier than me, I have been angry and questioning all my life, and it was only at the age of sixty that I realized that in fact, I had been looking for love in another way. I spent most of my life in a resentful relationship with my father, but in the last years of his life, I became a real good friend. Before my father died, I went to see him in Sophia's hospital, and he grabbed my hand, read the Gospels, and struggled to ask God to bless me. In fact, my father's love for me has always been there, from the beginning of my life, I have always been by my side. I understood too late. Zhang, this is the advice of an old man to you, God cannot save us, but love can give us salvation. You have to love your loved ones and love those who love you. ”

Zhang Ran bowed and saluted: "Thank you, Mr. Bergman." He understands what Bergman means, you have so many people who love you, and you love them, whether you are a Zhuangzi or a butterfly now, for the sake of these people you love and those who love you, you have to live happily, what do you care about the rest!

Bergman looked at Zhang Ran and said: "You are a very talented director, you have to understand that a really good director must have full courage, be honest with yourself, dig out the biggest shortcomings, desires and fears in your heart, and spread them naked in front of the audience." You don't feel it when you're filming now, in fact, you close your heart. ”

Zhang Ran couldn't laugh or cry, he also opened Norah Jones a few days ago, but he didn't expect that he was also this problem, he was really a fan of the authorities!

Bergman and Zhang Ran talked for nearly an hour, first about Zhang Ran, about himself, and later about the film.

Bergman said: "Among the living directors, I think the best ones are Spielberg, Scorsese and Coppola. They're the kind of directors who say something, and they're full of passion. Several of them have a realistic attitude, and the films they shoot are always improving. Your "Aviator" has this trait, and I love it. Your films all have the air of Akira Kurosawa, but the closest thing is you. Soderbergh's "Drug Network" is also excellent. The other two American movies that I think are good are "American Beauty" and "Magnolia". ”

Marina looked at Bergman in surprise, she couldn't believe her ears, and she actually put Zhang Ran and Coppola together and said, this evaluation is too high, right?

Zhang Ran was also in good spirits: "Mr. Bergman, I recently made a short film. Just finished editing, dubbing is not yet complete. I don't know if you're interested in checking it out, it's only a few minutes!"

Bergman smiled and nodded, "Yes!" He stood up: "Follow me!"

Bergman's cinema on Faroe Island was originally a storehouse for grain storage, which he later converted into a cinema. Bergman has a collection of 4,500 video tapes, and every day at 3 p.m. he comes to the warehouse to watch movies, mostly Swedish films, especially silent films.

The theater is small, with only 15 sofa chairs. On one of the seats in the first row rests a gray wool cushion, which is Bergman's permanent seat. The theater is plain, and the only decoration is a giant tapestry called "The Magic Flute on Faroe Island".

The lights go out and the movie is about to start. (To be continued.) )