Winter Light — Algot

This is the third post on Winter Light, Ingmar Bergman’s remarkable film from 1963. We’ve so far considered two of the characters, as vehicles for considering significant points of the movie.   The first was Jonas Persson, who killed himself after the pastor’s (Tomas’) clumsy ministering.  Persson wanted to know that there was a purpose to […]

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Winter Light — Jonas Persson

If you haven’t seen Winter Light, a 1963 Ingmar Bergman film, you should.  It’s available on youtube.  You can invest an hour and fifteen minutes now, and have a distillation of the views that many have of Christianity today. The primary figure in the movie (“protagonist” doesn’t seem apt) is Tomas, a disaffected and disillusioned clergyman […]

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