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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Best Intentions is a 1992 film from Sweden, directed by Bille August, with a screenplay by Ingmar Bergman.Bergman, who retired from directing films after Fanny and Alexander in 1982 but still wrote for film and television, wrote the screenplay about the early years in the marriage of his parents, although he changed their first names from Erik and Karin to Henrik and Anna, possibly to justify Artistic License. (He didn't change their family names of Bergman and Åkerblom respectively.) Henrik Bergman is a penniless divinity student who is invited for dinner at the ultra-rich home of the Åkerblom family. Despite the fact that he's engaged to a sexy waitress named Frida, he falls for Anna, the vivacious young Åkerblom daughter. Anna falls in love with Henrik as well, but her domineering mother Karin, disapproving of Anna's romance with a poor divinity student who has another girlfriend, forcefully intervenes to put an end to the relationship.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Eventually, however, Anna and Henrik find their way back to each other and get married. Henrik gets ordained into the Lutheran Church and gets a job as a minister in the remote northern village of Forsboda. Anna, a child of privilege and a city girl, is not too thrilled about living in a remote countryside village but makes the best of it. Time passes and they have a son, Ingmar Bergman's older brother Dag. Their marriage is stressed when Henrik declines a plum posting to a hospital in Stockholm sponsored by Queen Victoria (this Queen Victoria) herself, and stressed further still when they become foster parents to a creepy orphan boy named Petrus.Max von Sydow has a small role as Anna's father Johan. Pernilla August, who stars as Anna, later played Shmi Skywalker in the first two Star Wars prequels, The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })The Best Intentions was released as a six-hour series for Swedish television and a three-hour theatrical cut for international release. This trope page is based on the theatrical version. Ingmar Bergman continued to chronicle his parents' marriage with the screenplays to films Sunday's Children and Private Confessions. | |
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Incurable Cough of Death | |
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Incurable Cough of Death: First played straight, in that yes, that cough Anna gets is tuberculosis. Then subverted when Anna gets better. | |
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Daddy's Girl: Anna, very much so, setting up her fraught relationship with her mother after her father's death. | |
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May–December Romance | |
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May–December Romance: Anna's parents, with her father being a good 20 years older than his second wife, and his adult sons from a previous marriage being ambivalent at best about their stepmother. In his last scene, Johan explicitly begs his wife not to alienate her children even more since he knows he'll die soon and she'll be all alone. | |
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Time Passes Montage: At one point in the film a montage covers some years of their life in Forsboda—Henrik preaching, Anna nursing the sick, Henrik and Anna having sex, Anna with a pregnant belly, then baby Dag. | |
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Honor Before Reason: Henrik's main character flaw, a fixation on honor above all else. He prefers living in Forsboda because it is hard and unpleasant, and so he passes up the awesome chance to work directly for the Queen. Anna calls him out on this, saying that hardship is supposed to be for a higher goal and is not an end in itself. | |
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Adult Fear: Oh look! The Creepy Child you've been keeping in your home has run off with your toddler and is about to chuck him in the river! | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Frida, sensing that Henrik truly loves Anna, invites Anna to lunch and says that she's leaving town and that Anna should take Henrik back. A variation on this trope in that Frida makes sure to point out that she's doing this as much for her own sake as for Henrik's, since she doesn't feel she deserves to be treated like this. | |
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A Storm Is Coming | |
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A Storm Is Coming: A thunderstorm at night directly proceeds the arrival on the Bergman doorstep of orphan Petrus, who eventually causes a separation in their marriage. | |
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Glasses Pull: Karin does this in Italy, when receiving the telegram informing her that Johan has died. | |
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Wedding Day | |
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Wedding Day: Cause of the first nasty argument between the couple, when Henrik tries to get Anna to forgo the fancy cathedral wedding and settle for one in the small church in Forsboda. Anna wins, as she always does sooner or later in their disagreements. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
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Establishing Character Moment: The opening scene has Henrik summoned by his grandfather, who begs Henrik to visit the bedside of Henrik's dying grandmother. Henrik, nursing some sort of grudge against a past injury done to his parents by his grandparents (the film is vague), flatly refuses. He is established as stubborn and honor-bound. This scene is later made more tragic when another relation reveals that Henrik's grandmother was sympathetic to his parents. | |
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Betty and Veronica | |
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Betty and Veronica: The first third of the film has Henrik torn between fancy, aristocratic Anna and hot waitress Frida. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: Several to Fanny and Alexander - for obvious reasons, since this is a less fictionalised story of the same family. | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Uptown Girl: A broke-ass divinity student living in a single shabby boardinghouse room romances a daughter of wealth and privilege who lives in a mansion. The class conflict plays both ways, with Anna's family being none too thrilled of her hooking up with a poor guy, while Henrik is greatly sensitive to their snobbery and sometimes accuses his wife of being spoiled. | |
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Introdump | |
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Intro Dump: When Anna's brother Ernst invites Henrik to dinner, he introduces Henrik and the audience to the rest of the family. | |
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Hollywood Atheist | |
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Hollywood Atheist: Nordenson the businessman goes way over the top in his hatred of Henrik, yanking his daughters out of Henrik's church, calling the worship "blood rites" and likening the confirmation classes Henrik's giving to "emotional rape". | |
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Artistic License | |
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Artistic License: Bergman happily admits that a lot of the film is fictionalised - he never spoke to his parents in-depth about this part of their lives, and letters and diaries only reveal so much, so he had to embellish. | |
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Kubrick Stare | |
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Kubrick Stare: Creepy little Petrus gives one to even smaller Dag after overhearing Anna say that she's never liked him and wants to get rid of him. Then he tries to drown Dag in the river. | |
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I Never Got Any Letters | |
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I Never Got Any Letters: Anna's parents intercept a letter from her to Henrik, and her mother decides to burn it. Anna never really forgives her for this. | |
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Creepy Child: Petrus, the orphan that Anna and Henrik take in as a foster child. He's very pale with wispy blond hair and dark eyes; he stares intently but rarely talks. Anna tells Henrik straight-up that she doesn't like him and wants him gone. This is followed by Petrus nearly murdering little Dag. | |
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