Persona

THIS IS A CINEMA! "Persona" is a classic example of a transcendental psychedelic film from the wave of auteur cinema in Europe and Scandinavia. One of the best works of Ingmar Bergman and cinema in general. The film appears before us as a visual and script monument to the art of cinema. Bergman experiments both with the jump cut and with the exposure of the frame, the staging and order of scenes that at first glance are meaningless, adding a huge amount of purely visual subtexts, metaphors and more. There's a reason this film is one of the most profound films of all time. This was largely influenced by the same brilliant script by the same Bergman. I don’t know how he managed to present two personalities that together create and are one “persona,” but at the same time, their views on things in life are completely opposite, and the heroines themselves, at first glance, are not at all similar. But over time, Bergman turns the camera on us, the audience, showing our sins and thoughts. This is the main merit of the film. Ingmar Bergman, discussing in the film the themes of the meaning of life, depression, character, desire to help, sex, plans for the future, reconciliation with one’s own personality, creates a unique philosophical cultural phenomenon, which later, I think, will be remembered hundreds of years later, emphasizing attention to how Bergman was able to combine existentialism and nihilism in one idea, aslike how he combined Alma and Elizabeth into one “persona”. The film makes the viewer first of all think, and then delve into themselves, to reveal their “dark” side of personality. It perfectly allows you to understand yourself, find the meaning of life, your moral values. This is probably the genius of the work. I can rewatch a film as much as I want and discover new subtexts, rethink already understood ideas, and find something new. After all, everything in the film depends on the viewer’s interpretation. The viewer himself determines what he saw here.