"...Come over here Maria. Look at yourself in the mirror. You are
beautiful... but you have changed. These days you cast rapid,
calculating, sidelong glances. You're gaze used to be direct, open, and
without any disguise. Your mouth is an expression of discontent and
hunger. It used only to be soft. Your complexion has become pallid, you
use make-up. Your fine, broad forehead now has four creases above each
eyebrow... And this fine contour from the ear to the chin... it's no
longer quite so evident. That's where complacency and indolence
reside... Look here, at the bridge of the nose, why do you sneer so
often, Maria?... Beneath your eyes, those sharp, barely visible wrinkles
of boredom and impatience."
Viskningar och rop (Ingmar Bergman, 1972)
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