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.

confrontational and climatic sequences in the film, both characters retreat to the beach - with its cruel,

o rest here whatever desperate message I may have extracted from the film.

to be alive today'. Robin Wood. Introduction to Ingmar Bergman. 1969.

This, as in Bergmans previous film The Seventh Seal, introduces an unease in its audience and suggests

They merely exist as one. Elizabeth's silence is a byproduct of this hopeless realization - that truth can

the traditional therapist, embarking on the task of curing humanities great sickness. His later and

spinning or morphing, was merely exemplify this.

Duality, I feel, is the key to the stubborn door of the film, once this is addressed in its entirety, other

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