the serpent's egg

" .. Look at that picture. Look at all those people. They are incapable of a revolution.
They are far too humiliated, too afraid, too downtrodden.

But in ten years, by then, the 10-year-olds will be 20, the 15-year-olds will be 25.
To the hatred inherited from their parents, they will add their own idealism and impatience.
Someone will step forward and put their unspoken feelings into words. Someone will
promise a future. Someone will make demands. Someone will talk of greatness and
sacrifice. The young and inexperienced will give their courage and their faith to the tired
and the uncertain.

And then there will be a revolution, and our world will go down in blood and fire.

In then years, no more, those people will create a new society unequalled in world
history. The old society was based on extremely romantic ideas of mans goodness.
It was all very complicated since the ideas didn't match the reality. The new society
will be based on a realistic assessment of mans potentials and limitations.

Man is a malformation, a perversity of nature .. "

(uit: The Serpent's Egg van Ingmar Bergman, 1977, 8:00 — 9:40)