Rao: "I was a little distracted man wcause of the way it shot, like, if you didn't hear what she was saying, it's already just erotic" The performance of elizabetha's great. Like, her facial expressions, it's not like she's not giving anything. She's giving something. You buy that a friendship is developing between these two women. A and then the culmination of this moment of intimacy, where she speaks about this moment this like, pretty awesome. It starts to unravel and become dream like. Things get dreamy, but back and forth, eamy.
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…
Sponsored By:
Support Very Bad Wizards
Links: