no reason, no reason

Polly 2022-04-22 07:01:26

"There is no animal more feminine than the rhino." I think Bergman should be the biggest fan of this assertion.

We are always asking about the meaning or clarifying the context, but the master said that understanding is not important, you just need to feel. When we see a book or a movie, we will instinctively analyze and over-explain it. Although the masters have their own solid theoretical framework, they also have the vicious and evil deeds unique to human beings. such as boredom. So the masters are not gods, and we don't need to understand the themes or details that they themselves confuse or avoid.

Boredom is the theme of life, but the reason is not the disappearance of novelty, but precisely because of the endless emergence of novelty. Just like learning, no matter how hard we try to move forward, we will cross the boundless sea of ​​learning with a limited person. So the master is the same, when he slept all the heroines, and even fell in love with his heroine, the feeling of emptiness can be imagined. Day after day he perched on the cold island of Faroe, and in his powerless old age he became the god of many male disciples who repeated his path. What kind of sarcasm and whiplash, of course he chose not to see them.

Of course he loves women, he doesn't even love stupid beautiful women. He gets his heroine to say what Sontag and Beauvoir can say, and then from behind the camera he's madly in love with the muse of his own creation. Sexual tension and repression are not the themes in his films, which makes people who are all psychoanalytic libidos panicked, what else?

His controlling priesthood father and his detached, detached mother have become the objects of his life. Repeated torture again and again to feel the violence that can't be easily inflicted in adulthood, never forgetting and not forgiving, but the only person to be tortured is himself. His subject is thus only one, complex human nature. But he enjoyed it all, especially the pain.

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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?