Persona

In the discussion of Persona the idea of mirror images is brought to light quite a bit. I could be seen in the the film when the two women's faces were split and formed into one. It was also seen when there was one woman in the background and one in the foreground. However beyond the blatant attempts at showing the mirror images of the women in scenes such as that I must say that I much preferred the mirroring of the two women in their personalities. I know that in a way they were suppose to become one and the same. They were to shift in a sense. I enjoyed the subtle changes that the nurse made such as learning to smoke and spilling her sexual exploitation. One of the scenes that I found to be a particular example that she was changing and was no longer the bright eyed pure person that she was at the beginning of the film was when she left the glass on the ground for the other woman to step on. I felt that there were so many great instances that were subtle but obvious that the nurse was changing and all because of her patient. Her patient that did not speak but simply listened.