Persona dir. Ingmar Bergman
Yesterday we lost one of my favorite directors, Ingmar Bergman. My very first Bergman experience was watching Persona in high school and it had a profound effect on the development of my personal philosophy. He joined the ranks of the other 'greats' who have enormously influenced me: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Jung, Freud, Camus and Sartre. Some of my other favorite directors are Fellini, Godard and David Lynch, but Bergman alone has stimulated me in a philosophical way, transforming my vision of self and other. Another film I love is Fanny and Alexander, perhaps because like Bergman, I was raised by a strict Protestant minister. Fanny and Alexander is as much my poeticized autobiography as it was his.
via New York Times
Comments