fateful a collision course, the impact of these two heavenly bodies.
met was stupendous-and unavoidable. Sometimes, it's true, God .
intervened and averted it. But mostly His mind, alas, seemed to .
have wandered to other matters. And then, between these to .
diametrically opposed morning temperaments, arose an unbearable .
tension. Controlled at first by Mother's yawns and Father's even.
more forced and brittle cheerfulness, it gave rise to sooner or later,.
to an-for us children-unbearable silence: a silence which in turn, as.
the meal approached it's end, would explode into a grandiose quarrel, .
of which Malin and I would be doomed to be witness or-even worse-.
be dragged in as participants; cross examined as to who had said this .
or who had said that-who was in the wrong and who was in the right?
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Eventually the tension broke between the two and Karin began an affair. In 1925 affair came out into the open and the Bergman's talked about divorce. However they did not because of the social stigma and consequences for the children. Ingmar's father Erik became pathologivally jealous and suffered a nervous breakdown that affected his health for the next five years. Margretta recalls
•both parents were frequently absent for longish periods of time, my father in nursing homes; likewise my mother. The szchitzophrenic storms must have been terrible indeed.
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However after a time things began to return to being somewhat normal. Erik was installed by the Queen to the parsonage at the private hospital of Sophiahemmet. This implied great future prominence for Erik and furnished them with their first parsonage in Stolkholm with idealistic park like settings. However Ingmar's recollections of these 10 years are very opposite to what one might think. He recalls aching lonlines, feeling different from other children, a sense of dread, and unhappiness with the submission to protocol required by his fathers office.
This essay will look at many similar as well as contrasting themes between the movies Citizen Kane (1941) and Casablanca(1942). Citizen Kane and Casablanca were produced a year apart, but each came to the screen from different places. While Casablanca was based upon an earlier screenplay, Citizen K...