Christina Reviews *Through a Glass Darkly*

          This is one of Ingmar Bergman’s masterpieces about an insane woman who imagines that God is incarnated in the body of a spider. 

          This is a weird little foreign movie.  I don’t remember much about it accept for its claustrophobic feel (there’s only about four characters in the whole movie) and the spider-god. I once wrote a paper on connection and disconnection in short stories, and I think that's kind of what this movie is about----connection and disconnection as opposed to conflict.  The family members are disconnected from each other.  The main character, Karin, is disconnected from reality.  You get the picture.  Foreign movies seem to be about connection and disconnection more often that not, because c/d is more artsy fartsy than conflict.

       I suppose I shouldn't review a movie I barely understood, but hey.  I'm broadening your horizons here.  Maybe you'll watch it and like it better than I did.