![I was riffing off of Jimmy Kimmel’s idea that part of the show was Jack’s test when I mentioned Wild Strawberries last night. I can’t find the clip online, but I was thinking of the scene where Isak Borg wanders into a building where he is forced to take a test he is not prepared for —
Teacher in dream: Would you please diagnose this patient, professor Borg? Isak Borg: But, this patient is dead. [the patient bursts into laughter]
and then — after failing it —
Professor Isak Borg: What is the punishment? Sten Alman: The punishment? Well, I guess it’ll be the usual. Professor Isak Borg: The usual? Sten Alman: Yes. The punishment is loneliness. Professor Isak Borg: Is there no way out? Sten Alman: Don’t ask me. I don’t know anything about these things.
— encounters his wife and his lover talking to themselves and about him in a nameless grove surrounded by nameless trees in a nameless wood. The look and feel of those moments could easily be the show writ large. Cross this with the idea that Cary Grant has to run across something interesting with a group of people trying to help everyone else along to a bodhi-like moment along with all the other stories and you have the show.](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2xj7glRWC1qavtjjo1_500.png)
I was riffing off of Jimmy Kimmel’s idea that part of the show was Jack’s test when I mentioned Wild Strawberries last night. I can’t find the clip online, but I was thinking of the scene where Isak Borg wanders into a building where he is forced to take a test he is not prepared for —
Teacher in dream: Would you please diagnose this patient, professor Borg?
Isak Borg: But, this patient is dead.
[the patient bursts into laughter]
and then — after failing it —
Professor Isak Borg: What is the punishment?
Sten Alman: The punishment? Well, I guess it’ll be the usual. Professor Isak Borg: The usual?
Sten Alman: Yes. The punishment is loneliness.
Professor Isak Borg: Is there no way out?
Sten Alman: Don’t ask me. I don’t know anything about these things.
— encounters his wife and his lover talking to themselves and about him in a nameless grove surrounded by nameless trees in a nameless wood. The look and feel of those moments could easily be the show writ large. Cross this with the idea that Cary Grant has to run across something interesting with a group of people trying to help everyone else along to a bodhi-like moment along with all the other stories and you have the show.
