approaching mother's day

[wytchcroft]

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.

Comments

[reginaclarejane.livejournal.com]

I've never seen the film but it is a haunting image.
Our Mother's Day isn't until May 10 here in the States.
:)

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

strange there should be such a time difference - but i had a feeling that might be the case. as for the image - it just kinda snapped into focus in my head (i love the movie but i haven't seen it in quite some time).
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!:))