What makes it different from others?

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

An unexpected masterpiece

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Bergman's "Cries and Whispers" confronts the fears and anxieties of life in such an excruciatingly unfiltered way. It is an utterly depressing film, but a fantastic one. Agnes is dying of cancer. The film begins with a shot of a lone statue in a large field, shrouded I'm fog, then it cuts to a clock, slowly ticking away the seconds, and minutes, and hours. Then it cuts to Agnes. She is sleeping. Her lips are dry, and her breathing is short. She wakes up, tries to go back to sleep, but can't. She begins to cry. She gets out of bed, looks outside, and seems afraid. She writes in her diary that she is in pain. All of this shows the main themes of the movie in the first few minutes. The lone statue, shrouded in fog, represents the loneliness of all of these characters, and truly, most of us. The ticking clock is often a background noise to many otherwise silent scenes, and it represents how time is slowly passing, and we are all slowly fading into our deaths. Agnes attempts to go back to sleep, showing her fear of the pain she is experiencing, but since she can't, it also shows her helplessness toward it, and how her only haven towards it, is unconsciousness. Yet she still fears death.I could go on and on analyzing the rest of the genius of this film: how Karin is afraid of relationships, because she doesn't believe anyone can truly connect to her mostly because of her distant husband, but also she doesn't want to open up to anybody because she secretly hates herself; how Maria acts happy on the outside, but underneath she is just trying to search for a meaningful relationship just as everyone else, and David shows this when he describes her as just trying to find excitement in her existence which consists of boredom and apathy; how their mother was just the same as them; the genius of the color palette, such as how Anna wears white throughout the film, symbolizing her connection to Agnes, while after Agnes dies, both Karin and Maria begin to wear black, symbolizing their disconnect from her, as well as their connect to each other, and Maria wearing red to show how she always has the capacity for love, but only on the surface. Since when the opportunities arise, she always chooses the easy way out, rather than stinking with the people she should love. I just went on for way longer than I expected to there, but there are so many more subtleties in this film that explore how we interact with others, how we'd like to interact with others, why we don't, and the many other fears of ours.

This film is memorable. The close ups of this film makes this movie. I loved how Bergman portrays each of the sisters problems. The acting and edits in this film makes the movie come alive. When the sister is in pain, just the close ups on the faces really makes the audience feels the pain they go through. Yet it's interesting how the cuts really show the space and distance each of the sisters have for one another. Yet in the ending, the cuts show how the sisters start to slowly mend their relationship with each other. I find some of the scenes a bit disturbing and exteme, such as when the sister decides to hurt herself to not have sex with her spouse. That is a bit extreme, but the movie goes through many extremities. The red that is always shown throughout the film really draws the audience into the film because every time there is a red flash, the audience know it's going to get more intense than before. Overall, it's a movie worth to watch! :) It starts off a bit slow but it starts to pick up, even though it's a sad movie.

Cries and whispers showed us siblings that don't get along are brought together by the death of their sister Agnes. Bergman used the color red brilliantly throughout the film. I believe that the color red not only symbolizes inferiority of the human soul but also the pain each individual character carried. This film also in a way related to the passion of Christ by Agnes' death leading to redemption to her sisters, and by her maid Anna sort of representing May the mother of Christ. Maria (Agnes' most beautiful sister)wanted more attention from her husband but since she received a little bit of attention she searched for it through the doctor. her other sister wanted to receive less sexual attention from her husband so she made herself bleed to see if he would still want to touch her still.

Another great film that you shouldn't watch if you are feeling down or depressed. There is no happy ending, no "bright side," or feeling that the movie will pick up. I believe this movie is not the typical Hollywood 3 act structure. There was nothing that was looking like things were looking up. It was as if you were in a family's most troublesome time. There were themes of salvation and redemption in certain characters. I felt that each character was well thought out and carefully used to further the story along to show the audience who they truly were and their fears. That being said, this films composition is so beautiful.