"I want to read the whole thing, or if you have it, i have it up. The doctor knows that she's a selective mute," he writes. "Every infection and every gesture is a lie, every smile a grimace." 'Such things matter only in the theatre, and hardly there either,' says an actor who refuses to speak for her own safety.
David and Tamler dive into Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 masterpiece Persona, a film about two (?) women, Elisabet, a famous stage actress who has stopped speaking, and Alma the chatty young nurse assigned to care for her at an island cottage. What happens when the roles we play as parents, spouses, friends, and colleagues start to feel like dishonest performances, an endless series of desperate lies? Can we escape to an inner sanctum of truth and authenticity? Or is that putting on another mask, playing yet another part, telling a different set of lies? We offer some tentative interpretations of this rich and baffling film. Get that boy a normal sized sheet!
Plus we share some thoughts about the Chappelle special…
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