Mirror Comments

  • Amelie 2022-01-07 15:52:59

    Everyone is obsessed with "understanding" a movie and explaining it with a consistent logic. But Lao Ta himself is actually opposed to deciphering his works. In his view: = artwork, which has no thoughts, meanings, plots, development, endings, and symbols should not be abused. The farther away the audience is from the content, the closer to the image. Therefore, any interpretation of the film is nothing but a self-projection. Emotional and intuitive touch and proximity are...

  • George 2022-01-07 15:52:59

    Black and white colors separate the past and the present, dreams and reality, and also convey the state of Lao Ta's perception of memory. With the help of father’s poems to express emotions and use the same actors to play different roles, the mirror has become a medium that symbolizes the collage of scattered and trivial life. Facing the reflection of the mirror, everyone’s childhood memories are given a quiet and poetic flavor. , Turned into an eternal nostalgia in the breeze blowing...

  • Deonte 2022-01-07 15:52:59

    All Jingyu are love words, and all love words are Jingyu. The farther away the audience is from the content, the closer to the image. An ultimate dream cannot be...

  • Ernie 2022-01-07 15:52:59

    The flashbacks of black and white and color represent the cruelty of war and reality, and are like mirror images of each other. The world is mirrored and illusory. Spiral of contradictions, unresolved knots. No one takes you back in time, no one to accompany you to grow old, and there is so much sadness in the...

  • Destini 2022-01-07 15:52:59

    Both the narrative structure and the color conversion are of their own, but the poetic image itself is more powerful than the interpretation attempt. The wind blows the grass and the waves, the balloons, the waning heat, the ceiling falls, and the birds are thrown up; floating in the air, the fire house and the milk can are dumped at the same [sacrifice]. | Summary of the usual elements of the old tower: long mirror, very slow mirror (often close-up), Bach, showers & leaks, water marsh & water...

Extended Reading

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.