How Bergman’s vision changed a writer’s view of the novel
I used to subscribe to the view that one of the novel’s strengths compared with film was its ability to take you into the mind of its characters. In a film, I used to tell my creative writing students, you can’t know what a character is thinking unless you use a clunky voice-over. Watching Bergman’s movies I realised the camera could capture both thoughts and emotions without spelling them out, leaving an imaginative space for the viewer to inhabit. In other contexts, it could leave thoughts and emotions compellingly ambiguous.
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