Ever heard of a film knocking the wind out of you in the first five minutes? If not watch Ingmar Bergman’s Persona. The opening sequence of this film is surely one of the most unsettling, incredibly haunting things I have ever seen on screen. The music, the images and the lighting are so discomposing to the viewer that within an unbelievably small period of time into the film, Bergman catches us by the throat and makes us experience an almost unbearably intense psychoanalysis of a woman’s mind or is it two women’s minds, I can never be able to tell.

After the opening sequence we are shown a boy getting up from his bed in what seemed to me like…