Oníricas (8) - Ingmar Bergman - Persona

Imagem do filme Persona (1966) Cena do Sonho

DOCTOR - Do you think i don't understand you? You chase a hopeless dream. This is your torment. You want to be, not to appear to be. To be in every instant conscious of yourself and watchful. And at the same time you realize the abyss that separates what you are for yourself from what you are for the others, and this makes you dizzy, scared to be discovered, scared to be left naked, to be unmasked, to be put again into your limits. Because every word is a lie, every smile a grimace. Which is the hardest role? To commit suicide? No, it's indecorous. It is better to find shelter in immobility, in mutism, so one avoids to lie; or one can hide from life, so one doesn't have to act, to show a fake face, or make unwanted gestures. Don't you think? This is what one thinks, but to hide it's not enough because, you know, life shows itself in a thousand different ways, and it's impossible not to react. Nobody cares if your reactions are true or false. Only in theatre that is important, and maybe not even there. I understand you, Elisabet.. and i almost admire you. For me, you have to keep on acting this role until the end, until you lose interest in it, and then you can leave it for another role, like you are used to do.

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A cena do sonho:

"Alma's aggression in this dream situation - Bergman says - takes on such enormous proportions she finds she can no longer use words. She loses her ability to express herself. She's like a machine that has gone to pieces but just goes on turning madly, and her words, without any ordered context, just come tumbling out. Words cease to exist for her". At the end of her speech, Alma forces Elisabet to repeat some words: "Nothing, repeat, nothing, nothing , nothing". Finally, Elisabet painfully answers: "Nothing". Alma takes her head into her hands, holds her tight against herself. "Good. This is the way it is, this is the way it must be..". The film ends with the image of the two women, leaving the house on the sea and coming back home alone. The last image is once again the image of the child, trying to touch a blurred woman's face, in the distance.

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