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Hour of the Wolf

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Hour of the Wolf	comment	A darkly minimalistic, surrealistic ghost story by Swedish director Ingmar Bergman from 1968 (original title Vargtimmen), starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann. The former plays Johan, a painter with a torrid romantic life behind him and Ullmann plays his doting wife, Alma. They live together in solitude on a deserted island when their bleak, windswept domestic bliss is intruded upon by a coterie of very crass, totally realistic looking, upper-middle-class spirits with a taste for fine art.On the whole, the film relies on subverting common visual storytelling conventions to craft a rather complex Psychological Thriller with little to no special effects. To give some idea what's going on here, take the upper-middle-class spirits: On one level, they could be read as pointing to Johan's contempt for the shallow consumers of his art. They care only for the social currency it imparts. Being in society with these people saps Johan's artistic energy (metaphorically). Or, you might see the beings as supernatural beings that nevertheless are as physical as Johan and Alma. In which case, they are ghosts there to suck his life force. The film leaves both interpretations open for not only the viewer but also the characters. Johan and Alma are as terrified of their inability to fully discern between reality and figments of their imagination as the viewer unsure of what's going on. What's more, at one point, we're also wondering whether Alma, who finally begins to see the characters her husband sees, might even suffer from a shared delusion arising from her being too wrapped up in his strong-willed, charismatic artistic world. That adds a pretty heavy relationship dynamic to the whole thing, which touches somewhat on ideas about women's self-definition (such as in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House).
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Hour of the Wolf / int_105d50b1	type	Psychological Torment Zone
Hour of the Wolf / int_105d50b1	comment	Psychological Torment Zone: Many of the interactions with the spirits seem to be elaborate attempts on their part to torment and consume Johan psychologically.
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Hour of the Wolf / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Hour of the Wolf / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: We're seeing everything through Johan's and Alma's perspective, but it's implied that Alma has started to believe in his hallucinations, so Alma's account of Johan's story is difficult for us to believe. Finally, because The Director has written him — or herself into the story, we're faced with another unreliable narrator.
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Hour of the Wolf / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Hour of the Wolf / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: According to Johan, the "hour of the wolf" is the time when the most babies are born, the most people die, and people are visited by nightmares.
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Hour of the Wolf / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Hour of the Wolf / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: It's ambiguous how much of the film is real, and how much is Johan's hallucinations.
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Hour of the Wolf / int_25e18c14	type	Haunted Castle
Hour of the Wolf / int_25e18c14	comment	Haunted Castle: Much of the interaction with the ghosts takes place in the castle.
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Hour of the Wolf / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Hour of the Wolf / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Johan kills a small child who he thinks is a specter haunting him.
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Hour of the Wolf / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
Hour of the Wolf / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: The audio running during the title credits contains dialog from the actual film set, reminding the viewer that they are seeing a film.
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Hour of the Wolf / int_52bf67fc	type	Nordic Noir
Hour of the Wolf / int_52bf67fc	comment	Nordic Noir: More of a Surreal Horror film than anything else, but it can be seen as the closest Bergman came to this particular genre, with the creepy atmosphere and disturbed characters.
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Hour of the Wolf / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
Hour of the Wolf / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: Johan or Alma both could be hallucinating or they might be completely lucid.
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Hour of the Wolf / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Hour of the Wolf / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Bergman admitted that Johan was based on himself, and of course Liv Ullmann was his Real Life partner at the time.
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Hour of the Wolf / int_6bf93fc7	type	FanService
Hour of the Wolf / int_6bf93fc7	comment	Fanservice: Ingrid Thulin flashes a breast in one scene, and appears completely nude in another, but the creepiness of the story might place it more in Fan Disservice territory.
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Hour of the Wolf / int_72d31973	type	Surreal Horror
Hour of the Wolf / int_72d31973	comment	Surreal Horror
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Hour of the Wolf / int_884e513b	type	Medium Awareness
Hour of the Wolf / int_884e513b	comment	Medium Awareness: The frame story is an interview with Alma from the film director in which she tells Johan's story. However, we never see him and he doesn't speak. He wants the audience to think we're seeing Alma through his eyes.
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Hour of the Wolf / int_bdbfd01c	type	Perfectly Cromulent Word
Hour of the Wolf / int_bdbfd01c	comment	Perfectly Cromulent Word: Bergman claims the "hour of the wolf" referring to the hour of night when you're most vulnerable is a centuries-old concept. Linguists have been completely unable to find a single reference to it before 1968.
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Hour of the Wolf / int_c5ef2d50	type	Cringe Comedy
Hour of the Wolf / int_c5ef2d50	comment	Cringe Comedy: The dinner scene is played for this.
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Hour of the Wolf / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Hour of the Wolf / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Are the ghosts real or not? The audience cannot know definitively one way or the other.
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Hour of the Wolf / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Hour of the Wolf / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: A creepy child stalks Johan on the rocks near the sea.
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Hour of the Wolf / int_f96f8980	type	Love Makes You Crazy
Hour of the Wolf / int_f96f8980	comment	Love Makes You Crazy: Johan's sexual longing for a former lover is exploited by the ghosts to ensnare him.
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