Re-Made Midterm Assignment.

Persona..

Relationship.  The movie persona plays with this concept in multiple different ways.  The relationship between the characters, between personalities, oneself,  darks and lights, close-ups etc.  We learn that Elizabet Volger has a mysterious occurrence where she began to laugh in the middle of her stage performance of one of her plays. However, we are left wondering why.  We are later informed that she has been a patient of a particular hospital for years, without moving or speaking.  However, she seems to be completely healthy, medically.  The movie shows the relationship between two girls, Elizabet and Sister Alma grow from a feeling of uncomfortblity to basically being the same person.  

Regarding relation ships, we are un-informed in the beginning of the movie why Elizabet begins laughing in the middle of the play.  This begins one to consider  with what is actually wrong with Elizabet, and if this has to signify anything.  This goes back to the idea of relationship with oneself.  I believe that it is her laughing at the idea of all the roles she has played.   The surreal feeling as though she has never actually playing one but rather many roles.  That her life is a constant strand of different roles she has plays and she begins to laugh at life.   While Alma although not quite as obvious as elizabet, shows struggle between herself as-well.  Although she seems more put together, she is marrying someone , she feels she does not love, and she makes a remark about how nobody seems to listen to her, that rather she listens to everybody else.  Although she does not  seem to understand why people think this about her.  She begins ranting to elizabet all things that seem to be bothering her, things she has been unhappy with or things that she simple has never told anyone before.  

Alma begins going off and telling Elizabet all about her life and these stories that provoke all different feelings toward her, while elizabet simply listens.  This goes back now to the relationship between us and the two women in the film.  We get to learn Alma and what has mad up who she is, she tells the viewer her life stories and we get to become a part of her and know so much about her.  While Elizabet, continues to remain a mystery to us.  All we see of elizabet is her sharp expression, mostly in her eyes.  Although we can study her from the outside, unlike Alma , we have to make assumptions and put pieces together to get an idea about what makes up her.  

Because we are constantly wanting to learn more about these women and what makes up them , we struggle but that is the reasoning behind the thoughtful decision of camera placement.  The relationship between close-ups, the reasoning seems to be that the director wants us to look at these women get close up idea to get to read them and their expressions as if they were right in front of us in person.  this shows the strong artistry in the directors choice of making the movie.  he has, in addition to the close-ups of the faces, made this movie with particularly long clips.  In our current movies we are used to the scenes constantly switching before us.  However, in this movie t is particularly easy to see how the scenes are much longer because of the close up views in particular.  The actress was there the whole time there were no cuts between the scene for a good amount of time.  This makes the viewer intrigued, to 

listen to what that she has to say as though she is speaking particularly to them.  

We learn that Elizabet not talking, was her choice.  Although Alma seems to be enjoying having someone to listen to her, the quiet ends up making her go insane. But as time goes on even though we see anna going insane slowly, we also se her evolving for the person we originally knew her as.  She begins to resemble elizabet more and more as the movie goes on.  At one point she makes a comment about  how she is dressing with the glasses and smoking.  Thats not her.  She begins to play this role that Elizabet has created.