This movie is a brilliant psychological thriller that no matter when you pause it each frame could be a photograph. Instantly I was reminded of Cindy Sherman's film stills which I must imagine were inspired from this movie. The narrative of the film follows the themes of masking your flaws to play a certain roll, prevalent based on one of the main characters playing an actor. Often you find that the two main protagonists (Alma and Elisabet) replace each other in certain positions to show the parallels in their lives. They come from different backgrounds but hide things in similar ways. The title of the film Persona directly relates to the hand crafted version of ourselves and how we want people to perceive us. One of the themes that stood out to me was how children were often brought up. We have to likely career women and one of them has a child in result due to her infidelity and one has one because of the societal pressures that women hold to have children and to become a mother...
