Review of Persona

With technique that uses metacinematographic language to expresses unconscious deliriums (broken frames, images that are disconnected by the plot etc.), Bergman shows the pathological fertility of human: the opposition and relation between two women, the nurse and the patient, that are rapidly reversed in the nurse that's follows a therapy through dialogue and the second that listens. In fact, the second one is mute: with this method, the nurse starts to feel the patient (actress) and body as an instrument to talk about her past and her problems, until to feel rage and hate against her because of her silence. It is the play of double character and of identification with other people (in fact "Persona" refers to the Latin word that indicates theatrical mask and also to the etymological meaning if voice's amplifier), that can happen in the silence of this relation (also with subtile homo-erotical tensions) until the delirium of impossibility of language (and communication) and impossibility of understand the past. Humans remain in their silence, as body disconnected one to the other and constricted to live their complexity in their own incomprehensible bodies (the maternity - aborted - also communicates this power and at the same tragedy of human body).