Is he... Dare I say it... The GOAT?

I don't think. There are a handful of great movies in his ouevre, but generally speaking he's too fixed in his comfort zone. If we ask of a great artist that they indicate some wisdom or insight into the human condition, Bergman falls short because he defaults to cruelty. His attitude to the world is that people are basically shit and that life is about lying to people about how much you hate them so that you can get your needs met. Also, he's too theatrical in his thinking - the superb cinematography of Nykvist allowed a lot of basically stagey work to be mistaken for formally exciting cinema. The way we take sexual frankness for granted in movies now has also reduced much of the impact of his work.

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>His attitude to the world is that people are basically shit and that life is about lying to people about how much you hate them so that you can get your needs met.

But this is true