Review: Hiljaiset sillat

A bridge to another

The story is old: two people fall in love with each other, even though they don’t want to fall in love, because one of them
of them are married. That’s the story of Silent Bridges .

Francesca, the hostess of the farm, is home alone when her husband and teenage children are at an agricultural fair. She meets photographer Robert. They are together for four days, and after those days, Francesca has to make a decision: whether to leave or stay, whose happiness she seeks and who she hurts.

I saw Silent Bridges as a movie in my twenties. Back then, things in my world were more clearly right or wrong. Now, in my fifties, in the theatre auditorium, I understand that there is no completely right solution. In the end, the happiness of others can make you calmer than your own.

There are sentences in the play that are memorable. Like Robert’s sentence that for most people in the world, the most important thing in the world is to hold on to the security of immutability. Or Francesca’s advice to her children in her diary: “Do what you need to do to live happily. Don’t die before you die.”