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“Bergman was writing for a society where it was largely presumed that marriage was a positive good. We’re writing in a context where marriage has been interrogated so many times. We needed a different approach,” explains Herzog.
The two consulted sociologist Eva Illouz, who argues that modern-day relationships have been infected by capitalism and consumerism. “There is this idea that we can always trade in what we’ve got for something better — it’s actually the way we prove our self-worth,” says Herzog. “I became very interested in the idea that the more that we gain as women, the further we get from a sense of value that’s intrinsic or spiritual rather than commercial.
A gender swap of the two main characters — the HBO version has Jessica Chastain’s Mira as the family’s breadwinner — further allowed Herzog and Levi to update the conversation. The one rule the duo were determined to stick to, however, was maintaining the structure of the original show.
“There’s just an enormous amount of richness there,” says Levi. “If, in the original, there was a sentence or a dialogue that we felt is so good, we did everything we could to keep it. And then, you make the small but significant decisions to lift it out of its original context and let something new come through.”
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