Persona

We watched this one in Film History class, and it was a perfect excuse for me to rewatch. How this film speaks to themes of identity and social relations, and ultimately also how art and cinema itself plays a role in that, is masterful. I'm mindblowed once again. The way one listens but doesn't speak, and the other one speaks but can't listen is such an insteresting dichotomy that just shows how impossible the formation of identity is without the relation of oneself with the other. Neither of them are complete, so both mix into this unhealthy relationship of admiration and disdain. They are two sides of a coin, so they confuse themselves as being the same coin. There's just so much interesting stuff here that I feel I'm barely scratching the surface, and I most probably am. Can't wait for the next rewatch some day.