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Wild Strawberries (1957)

★ 8.1 · 1,798 ratings on TMDB
Wild Strawberries poster★ 8.1

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

The emergence reading

Wild Strawberries keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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