Persona (1966)

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Meaningless

What. The. Hell? Ebert helps, a little... Oh, I give up.

- Sam - 2006-04-22 12:52:57
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I still don't get it, but more favourably.

Better on a second viewing, but still so horribly opaque. I've read several attempts at analysis, but they've been, for the most part, nonsense. Misc. notes:

  • Intro. -- starting inside movie camera etc. -- explicitly (self-referentially) establishes the film as a constructed object.
  • Spectator and spectacle: boy touching screen, Elizabeth listening in silence to Alma...
  • Breaking down of normal spectator/spectacle relationship? Burning celluloid when Alma discovers Elizabeth's opinion of her.
  • WTF?

I still don't get it.

- Sam - 2006-05-09 09:42:10