Mirror Comments

  • Ambrose 2022-04-24 07:01:16

    Memories are imprecise, but the green eyes will become as palpable as the pain of love, as still in the mirror. The quiet poetry makes one contemplate the film inexplicably, wanting to touch the wind blowing through the underbrush. The indistinguishable dream memories cannot be interpreted by others, because deja vu is the most...

  • Elouise 2022-03-28 09:01:07

    Revisit. Another way to open a dream. Memories are like fire behind the water curtain, reflection in the mirror: full and fragile. The male who is "absent" from beginning to end is the attachment to motherhood. Reality and memory are gradually coupled, and finally move towards regression and...

  • Lea 2022-03-28 09:01:07

    I am sorry that Laota shared his memories with us and the way he shared it, but the film brought me a little touch from those documentaries. Well, I can give five stars by cutting out Laota's own...

  • Kylee 2022-03-27 09:01:13

    After revisiting, the soul is shaken. I never thought that the poeticization of the old tower would have such a powerful force in the functional performance of the film's narrative. Relying on natural elements, some sort of symbolic completion of the schedule is clearly like master control. The fire of the torch, the rain in the wind, the shattering of the mirror, it is a split, a make up, and it is a bit Proustian. Not fully understanding the text and logic lines, Ozu's film agrammatic theory...

  • Jocelyn 2022-03-27 09:01:13

    A person can completely photograph what he thinks, what really belongs to him, and let others worship you. Tarkovsky did it, staying true to himself. A cross-cut between the present and childhood, Tarkovsky's thoughts on the...

  • Lizzie 2022-03-27 09:01:13

    11th BJIFF No.25@World City Broadway. Ta's private films buried his mother's past, his father's poems, and his most core images and most intimate emotions. In order to prove the immortality of the mother, he discovered that time can be carved. Memory constitutes the essence of human beings. Narrative dispersion is the inevitability confirmed by Proust, and only in this way can the fragmentation of memory be picked up and the momentary eternity be captured. It is better to look at beauty to find...

  • Marilie 2022-03-27 09:01:13

    You say it's not complicated but I'm still...

  • Damian 2022-03-27 09:01:13

    Spreading Hands. Helpless. 2016.4.24 @China Film...

  • Ernestina 2022-03-27 09:01:13

    Waking up with wet...

  • Laurie 2022-03-27 09:01:13

    [Mirror] is actually very simple, it is a person's pursuit of self. Its stream of consciousness carries a lot of poetic symbols and beautiful structure, so the positive film is extremely...

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Mirror quotes

  • Father: It seems to make me return to the place, poignantly dear to my heart, where my grandfather's house used to be in which I was born 40 years ago right on the dinner table. Each time I try to enter it, something prevents me from doing that. I see this dream again and again. And when I see those walls made of logs and the dark entrance, even in my dream I become aware that I'm only dreaming it. And the overwhelming joy is clouded by anticipation of awakening. At times something happens and I stop dreaming of the house and the pine trees of my childhood around it. Then I get depressed. And I can't wait to see this dream in which I'l be a child again and feel happy again because everything will still be ahead, everything will be possible...

  • Forensic doctor: You know, I fell and found strange things here - roots, bushes... Has it ever occurred to you that plants can feel, know, even comprehend? The trees, this hazelnut bush...

    Natalya: This is an alder tree.

    Forensic doctor: It doesn't matter. They don't run about. Like us who are rushing, fussing, uttering banalities. That's because we don't trust nature that is inside us. Always this suspiciousness, haste, and no time to stop and think.