ABSTRACT
Dr Izak Borg's beautiful cousin, Sara, is in the wild strawberry patch picking the fruit, a birthday gift for her uncle. She goes for a swim, while Izak seats himself on the ground near the old wild strawberry patch and, in a visual memory, recalls the events of another special day, his father's birthday. As Wild Strawberries, Ingmar Bergman's classic masterpiece, unfolds, through dreams, reminiscences and the events of that single day, we come to know and understand the central character with a penetrating insight, the kind that, as a rule, comes only from long and arduous psychoanalytic treatment. Then came Marianne's experience of being disturbed by the noise of the quarrel between Izak and Miss Agda at the breakfast table and, finally and unmistakably, Izak's re-viewing in his mind the seduction in the wild strawberry patch that the obnoxious twins had observed.
