Existentialism in Art Cinema
‘ The chaos in your soul will give birth to a dancing star.’ Friedrich Nietzsche. Bergmans 1966 film Persona, is surrounded by as much speculation and deliberation as an early Bunuel or Lynch film. Part of the fun, it seems, when approached by a film as difficult and turgid as Persona, is theorizing and guessing at its intended meaning. I shan’t live under the pretense that I follow every gesture, every visual utterance and expression Bergman has invested in his film, on the contrary, as I embarked on the films journey- on Bergmans journey, I found myself amongst the impossibly speculative; the searchers of meaning ; those in dire need, it seems, to justify the film to themselves- or themselves to the film, as it were.
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Approximate Word count = 793
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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