Bergman pushes this logic even further in the scene which follows inside the house, where Isaac as an old man wanders in the present through the living past like a ghost, flowing unseen through the same plane of existence as the characters before him. Isaac, himself an old admirer of Sara’s, sees them now, even though he was not present at the time.
Next, after zooming in on Isaac’s face, the journey to the past continues as we see Sara, his young cousin, picking strawberries whilst followed by a young suitor. First, we see an image from his youth, of the house in the past, superimposed over the top of the house as it is today, beckoning us into the past.
Drawn at once to the “wild strawberry patch” he lets his mind wander off on a melancholy tangent, and his voice over, which has been present since the start of the film, draws us further and further into his memories. On his way, he makes a detour to take in his old family home. After a nightmare where he sees himself standing in front of his own corpse, he decides to travel to his destination by car. Isaac, an old misery-guts, has been given an honorary award that he has to make a journey to receive.
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