It is at this point that the film, which has already be super-saturated with complex visual imagery, begins to create an unnerving and deeply existential portrait of how we interpret others, how others interpret us, and the impact that these interpretations have upon both us and them. Although Elisabeth remains silent, the relationship between the women is a pleasant one-until a rainy day, too much alcohol, and Elisabeth's silence drives Alma into a series of highly charged personal revelations. After some time, Elisabeth's doctor feels the hospital is of little use to her the doctor accordingly lends her seaside home to Elisabeth, who goes there with Alma in attendance. She is taken to a hospital, where nurse Alma is assigned to care for her. Actress Elizabeth Volger has suddenly stopped speaking in what appears to be an effort to cease all communication with the external world. PERSONA may well be Ingmar Bergman's most complex film-yet, like many Bergman films, the story it tells is superficially simple.
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