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Ingmar Bergman changed the face of filmmaking -- and may have been the 20th century's greatest artist.
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    His films tell us who people can become,

    Hollywood offered no hope after war paranoia,

    Sending the audience intimately inward...

    He dangles our mutual existence with craft,

    And so

    His work remains among the pyramids of image,

    Discovered again and again by those so weary,

    Of beatings and trouncings galore,

    End the stupidy of ill-expressed humanity...

    You whore.

    Imagine what his plays must have been! Now the audience focuses on the face of the little boy who... .