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wytchcroft) wrote2009-03-21 12:55 am
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approaching mother's day
i've been thinking about this coming Mother's Day, which is on Sunday in the UK, and this image has been haunting me.
It's from the film Persona by Ingmar Bergman, in fact it is the opening of the movie - with the child in front of a screen hmself there's something science fiction about it, as if a celluloid mother was being used the way iron puppets have been used on monkeys. Something close but unreachable - maybe... maybe, it's hard to pin down exactly why i find it so powerful.
But as Mother's Day approaches and i am aware of many friends who are both mothers AND daughters now - and since i am of the age where i can see through both sets of eyes when it comes to empathising with peoples' family relationships - i think i like this image because it conjures the (often forgotten) ancient sense of Mystery around the maternal, from the Sphinx to the Madonna, yet it does so in a futuristic way.
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What you wrote about this photo was great, I definetely pick up on the sci-fi vibe. Its intimently creepy.
Siggy Stardust
and yes, it is an unsettling image - but then it's a pretty strange film!
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Our Mother's Day isn't until May 10 here in the States.
:)
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But i was actually thinking of a friend and worrying a little about how the day would make them feel.
Mother daughter relationships - THEY are the real mystery maybe!:))
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tense feeling it is
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- and also something like an archetype, a powerful image (the mother and child), it goes well beyond the specifics (the flesh and blood) of, say, my mother or my friends or indeed any actual person... well, it has got me thinking!
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Look at those eyes. I am always fascinated by that look full of concern, care, pain.
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thank you for posting such a remarkable piece, so emotional.
:))
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How beautiful.
The Blessed Mother and Her Son has always been one of my favorite images, whether Jesus as a Child or the Pieta...
Thank you so much, Alex for the image and wytchcroft for alerting me of it...
:)
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My thanks once again.
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it's an amazing story!:)
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We don't have Mother's Day in Russia we are celebrate The International Women's Day. This present I made for all women:
http://blogger4you.narod.ru/8Marta/Chris_Spheeris.html
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and i saw your post about Internation Women's Day, a very worthy celebration!:)))
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(koff! wheeze! etc)
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Will certainly check it out
*takes her vampire teeth out* j/k
Re: Will certainly check it out
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But I did not see this film. And other Bergman's films too :(
I little saw the classical foreign cinema. But has this month looked already 50 films :)))
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Well, i would recommend every Bergman movie he ever made - but they are not the easiest of films to enjoy.
I would say, The Magician / The Face is a great film of his to watch if you have not seen his movies before.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magician_(1958_film)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051365/
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you should check out the other comments by the way, Alex posted an extraordinary image of the Madonna / mother and child, with a backstory of love and deception.:)