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Maybe all and none: Bergman had a pretty deep knowledge of Jungian psychology, and...

Posted by orejones on March 20, 2007 at 04:44:32:
...if you look at many of his films through that light, you´ll get a hint of his search, which certainly was honest and coming from the deepest of him.
Now, if you look at "Wild Strawberries" again, this time keeping in mind how the Anima contributes to enrich a man´s soul and life, and how barren both can become when the Anima is repressed or, at times worse, neglected; and how, in our psychic life, those aspects of our psyche that we leave aside, or which we repressed during our development, will come back once and again, under different guises, until we finally either accept them and pay them what is due, unless we become dry and die, then your vision will be enriched, and the old man´s dreams, visions, pentimenti, and whatever happens to him in that wonderful film, will make sense..., as the resonances it awakes in your own soul will, too.
A road movie in search of Isak´s soul, with his Anima leading the way would be a fitting description of this gem. And his final surrender of his ego, which doesn´t result in the catastrophe he always feared, but in him becoming a better, deeper, richer man, is depicted in a simply magisterial way, with the confluence of both the external situation and what is dwelling its way towards the light inside him being perfectly timed...
In short, one of the best films ever done. And one I sincerely expect Hollywood never to put its hands on to "remake"it.
There´s more in it, of course. But these were my 2 cents.
Regards
BF