career (okay, I'm simplifying a bit) out of studying middle-aged, disaffected, neurotic, Viennese bourgeois women.
This movie closely studies the innermost psychic recesses of a Swedish grande dame of the theater, though cleverly it really is a baring of the soul of her nurse who begins to lose her personality into that of her patient, I guess?
Anyhow, it's all very clever and it does have one of the most fascinating, sexually charged scenes in all of film history (not a bared limb in sight, either), and the photography and montage are brilliant... but I found I didn't care very much.
The troubles of the privileged seem so self-indulgent that, frankly, I don't give a damn.
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Topic - "Persona:" Freud made a - tinear 07:33:41 11/14/06 (17)
- I can't believe your take on this... - EBerlin 20:49:59 11/14/06 (5)
- Yes, I've agreed with you, it's quite beautiful. But it's not just a poem but - tinear 16:49:06 11/16/06 (4)
- Well... - EBerlin 18:07:36 11/16/06 (3)
- Re: Well... - Rod H. 08:54:58 11/17/06 (1)
- Sorry, meant to post to tinear, not you EBerlin * - Rod H. 09:08:06 11/17/06 (0)
- Okay, but I wish you could articulate what you think I'm missing. nt - tinear 22:31:27 11/16/06 (0)
- Re: "Persona:" Freud made a - Rod H. 14:11:00 11/14/06 (0)
- "one of the most fascinating, sexually charged scenes in all of film history " I have been saying that for ages - Victor Khomenko 08:45:21 11/14/06 (1)
- Re: Yes Tin must be polictically correct ( to himself ) to get---- - patrickU 04:39:27 11/15/06 (0)
- People are people,whatever their socioeconomic status - ArdRi 08:03:48 11/14/06 (7)
- Of course you're right. But the poor cannot go to a private island - tinear 08:52:09 11/14/06 (6)
- Re: Of course you're right. But the poor cannot go to a private island - Rod H. 16:15:02 11/14/06 (0)
- Have you never met a self-absorbed person of a "lower" class? - Victor Khomenko 09:52:44 11/14/06 (3)
- Re: Have you never met a self-absorbed person of a "lower" class? - Gee LP 19:24:57 11/17/06 (2)
- Victor seized on "self-absorption," not I. The point is that only the rich - tinear 04:35:03 11/20/06 (1)
- Re: Victor seized on "self-absorption," not I. The point is that only the rich - Rod H. 08:44:14 11/20/06 (0)
- As a cautionary tale.Without letting yourself - ArdRi 09:29:30 11/14/06 (0)