As I watched the film The Mirror there was 3 stories. All of them had one man in common. In one he is a child and it is before the war and it shows nature greatly. Then it shows him during war time and then once more as he is getting a divorce and the child they have together must be with the mother.
There are also many other things with the picture and scenes that I noticed. In the begining there is a barn FIRE and then a woman washing her hair and WATER falling down the wall. Then there is a YOUNG woman in real life and she looks in the mirror and she is OLD. Then the picture is BLACK AND WHITE and then COLOR. Then there are people SLEEPING and then AWAKE.
Also I noticed that there were tons of Mirrors throughout the movie. Hence the name The Mirror. It to me always seemed like a picture or a scene. It was a painted picture, nothing like real life. Everything is masked and realty must be hidden.
An odd thing I noticed were the doctors. In the opening scene a woman is asking questions to a young man who has a speech problem. She uses weird methods of fixing this and yet it works. There is also a part where a woman is floating over a bed. Another weird thing was the woman that told the boy to read the book. Then she disappeared as if she was a ghost.
And "Mirror" is an appropriate title for this film in many, many ways. Tarkovsky was fascinated with an old mirror in a house he grew up in--and he noticed after awhile that due to it's particular nature it not only reflected what or who was in front of it, but also added its own individual elements. And it's really true--have you ever noticed how you can look slightly different in different mirrors due to the different types of materials and how they're formed (and carnival mirrors are an extreme example of how this can be so).
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you noticed that there were a ton of mirrors on the wall next to the dying narrator at the end...which is a good observation.
Your other observations are good as well--we'll talk some more about that stuff tomorrow.