Persona (1966)

"A limitless, never satisfied, never renewed, unbearable curiosity drives me forward, it never leaves me in peace."


Don't you think I understand? the hopeless dream of being. Not seeming, but being. Consious at every moment. Vigilant. At the same time the chasm between what you are to others and to yourself. The feeling of vertigo and the constant desire to at last be exposed. To be seen through, cut down, perhaps even annihilated. Every tone of voice a lie, every gesture a falsehood, every smile a grimace. Commit suicide? oh no. that's ugly, you don't do that. But you can be immobile, you can fall silent. Then at least you don't lie. You can close yourself in, shut yourself off. Then you don't have to play roles, show any faces or make false gestures. You think... But you see, reality is bloody-mided. Your hideout isn't watertight. Life seeps in everything. You're force to react. No one asks if it's real or unreal, if you're true or false. It's only in the teathre the question carries weight. Hardly even there. I understand you, Elizabet, that you're immobile and silent. That you've placed this loack of will into a fantastic system.

我了解你。她說。我甚至以此尊重你。

你可以演出這個角色﹐直到你倦膩了它為止。