Persona Comments

  • Dariana 2021-12-07 08:01:40

    Dreams are the only reality. Language is the cage of mankind. The other me in the world is a mask that can't...

  • Vincenzo 2021-12-07 08:01:40

    Stop Talking, communication starts from shutting...

  • Jamil 2021-12-07 08:01:40

    There has never been a movie that would make me inexplicably pay attention to and remember every shot. This is a very metaphysical film, including philosophy and psychology. My understanding is that an actor splits into two people, experiencing life and dealing with...

  • Josefina 2021-12-07 08:01:40

    A+ / Private Shadow History TOP3/ It is clearly a horror film/The relationship between the acute and obtuse angles of the characters in the picture/The simulation, symmetry and overlap of the portrait/The challenge of the actor to the camera and the fourth wall/The break of the film and the death of the film/Like a blog Geman’s elaborate installation art ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★...

  • Kellen 2021-12-07 08:01:40

    I must think of "Inland Empire", but I think more of "Doctor Who" Episode 196 Midnight: A voiceless monster, by repeating human words, step by step becomes a synchronized voice; waiting for the monster to be more than the object of repeating. Say the same thing quickly, and the monster will launch its body and live on the opponent's appearance. Because obviously, "she" has already robbed the other side's poor mind and even soul by imitating from the inside...

  • Angus 2021-12-07 08:01:40

    Very ultimate movie experience. The combination of visual, audio, abstract and reality, arbitrary editing and performances by actors are all at their peak. But at the same time I thought that Bergman should be someone who has been trying to reject and escape the real...

  • Alisha 2021-12-07 08:01:40

    If a person wants to be absolutely honest, he must have the courage of Christ and the self-immolation monk, overcome his instinctive fear of shouting "no", dare to look directly at the bloody muzzle, at least a pot of oncoming hot soup. Unfortunately, honesty is not easy, but evil thoughts have been dormant in the subconscious and never disappeared. Bergman is first of all a moralist. He believes that hurt and aggression are instincts and instincts, and that mask is not a protective cover for...

  • Matilde 2021-12-07 08:01:40

    "I am a fan of Bergman. His movie "The Spring of Virgin" changed my life. "Mask" was the first R-rated movie I watched. I was just 18 years old in Taiwan at that time. This movie made me Excited. Later I watched more Bergman movies, and "Mask" is my favorite one."-Lee Ang's 5 favorite...

  • Ismael 2021-12-07 08:01:40

    The first Bergman of the Shanghai Film Festival, there was even a guided tour of Bergman himself at the beginning, which was shocked. . The master said two key points: 1. The first four minutes are difficult to understand and should be understood as music; 2. An important reason for making this film is because when I was the director of the Royal Theatre, I had to say something insincere. Too much anger. In other words, the so-called mask and the true self. With these two sentences, it is...

  • Darius 2021-12-07 08:01:40

    This is the first time I watched Ingmar Bergman's movie. This is the most mysterious, complex, and philosophical film. Its theme is inspired by Strindberg's stage play "The Strong". According to the features of human faces or personality masks that both reveal and conceal, and intertextualize with voice lines and faces, re-discuss the "Oedipus" complex, blood relationship, shadow archetypes, and personality masks. The image is dreamlike and the narrative is melancholy. Elizabeth's silence is in...

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  • Sister Alma: Elisabet? Can I read you something from my book? Or am I disturbing you? It says here:"All the anxiety we bear with us, all our thwarted dreams, the incomprehensible cruelty, our fear of extinction, the painful insight into our earthly condition, have slowly eroded our hope of an other-wordly salvation. The howl of our faith and doubt against the darkness and silence, is one of the most awful proofs of our abandonment and our terrified, unuttered knowledge." Do you think it's like that?

  • Sister Alma: Karl-Henrik and I rented a cottage by the sea once. It was June, and we were all alone. One day, when Karl-Henrik had gone into town, I went to the beach on my own. It was a warm and lovely day. There was another girl there. She'd paddled over from another island because our beach was sunnier and more secluded. We lay there, sunbathing beside one another, complete naked, dozing now and then, putting suntan lotion on. We had those cheap straw hats on, you know? I had a blue ribbon around mine. I lay there peeping out from under my hat at the landscape and the sea and the sun. It was kind of funny. Suddenly I saw two figures leaping about on the rock above us. They would hide and then peek out. "There's a couple of boys looking at us," I told the girl. Her name was Katarina. "Let them look," she said, and turned over on her back. It was a strange feeling. I wanted to jump up and put my robe on but I just lay there on my stomach with my bottom in the air, not at all embarrassed, completely calm. Katarina lay there next to me the whole time, with her breasts and thick thighs. She just lay there sort of giggling to herself. I noticed that the boys had come closer. They just stood there looking at us. I noticed they were terribly young. Then one of them - the more daring of the two - came up and squatted down next to Katarina. He pretended to be busy picking at his toes. I felt so strange. Suddenly I heard Katarina say, "Hey, why don't you come over here?" She took him by the hand and helped him off with his jeans and shirt. Then suddenly he was on top of her. She guided him in with her hands on his behind. The other boy just sat on the slope and watched. I heard Katarina whisper in the boy's ear and laugh. His face was right next to mine. It was red and swollen. Suddenly I turned over and said, "Aren't you coming over to me too?" And Katarina said, "Go to her now." He pulled out of her and fell on top of me, completely hard. He grabbed my breast. It hurt so bad. I was ready somehow and came almost at once. Can you believe it? I was about to say, "Careful you don't get me pregnant" when he suddenly came. I felt it like never before in my life, the way he sprayed his seed into me. He gripped my shoulders and arched backward. I came over and over. Katarina lay on her side and watched and held him from behind. After he came, she took him in her arms and used his hand to make herself come. When she came, she screamed like a banshee. Then all three of us started laughing. We called to the other boy, who was sitting on the slope. His name was Peter. He came down, looking all confused and shivering despite the sunshine. Katarina unbuttoned his pants and started to play with him. And when he came, she took him in her mouth. He bent down and kissed her back. She turned around, took his head in both hands, and gave him her breast. The other boy got so excited that he and I started all over again. It was just as good as before. Then we went for a swim and parted ways. When I got home, Karl-Henrik was already back from town. We ate dinner and drank some red wine he'd brought. Then we had sex. It's never been as good, before or since. Can you understand that?