Wild Strawberries

Discussion Questions

pp. 81-end

Please compose your own substantive responses to the questions below. No length requirement. Print out the responses and bring them to class

1. Over the course of the film, we learn about many negative events and relationships in Dr. Borg’s life and he experiences two very distressing dreams. Yet somehow by the end he seems to have been transformed in some important way for the better. How is this so?

2. How many generations of people are represented in the film? Think about the relations between them; how does the film portray the ways in which one generation influences another, for better or worse?

3. Why do you suppose Bergman ends the film with Borg finding his parents?