Traveling with him is his daughter-in-law Marianne (the beautiful, mesmerizing Ingrid Thulin) who has spent the last month visiting Isak (though she admits in the car she finds him rather coldhearted and is really there to be away from her husband.) Along the way, he picks up two sets of hitchhikers, visits his decrepit mother, and encounters several vivid flashbacks and dream sequences. In it Isak Borg (played masterfully by Victor Sjöström) travels by car from Stockholm to Lund to receive an honorary degree. Perhaps most magnificently so in Wild Strawberries. Ingmar Bergman made more than a few films where his characters do much the same. It has certainly been the muse for many an artist’s work. Most people, nearly everyone who reaches a certain age have moments where they look back at their life and wonder what might have been. Some nights though, I lie awake at night and wonder what I might have done differently. I have a wife, and a child, and a few friends, not much else to call my own. I have no trophies to place on my mantel, no awards have been granted. Any career I imagined having went off the rails years ago. I do not possess any graduate degrees, nor great wealth. The man I dreamed I would be as a child is many fathoms away from the man I became. At the middle of my life, I try not to partake of the crisis that effects so many at this age, but I do admit to periodic bursts of looking back – at the things I’ve done, the places I’ve seen, the accomplishments I’ve achieved, and the people I’ve known – and comparing them to where I thought I’d be when I first began. With luck, I’ll live another 37 before I die.
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