Mirror is the most challenging because it doesn't have a linear narrative structure. I think Laota wants to freely collage his memories and dreams at different times. Those fragmented memories have neither chronological order nor conclusive cause and effect. Another thing that confuses the audience is that Old Tower uses the same actress to play his mother and his ex-wife, and the same boy to play his childhood self and his son.
I love that he intersperses the film with documentaries of important historical moments as a collective memory in the film, connecting each character's relationship to the era by providing a larger sociohistorical context.
The mirror is the most challenging since it does not have a linear narrative structure. I think he tried to create a narrative of his memories and dreams that moves backwards and forwards in time. His fragments memories are neither in a clear temporal order nor with a causality. And another confusing thing is he let the same actress to play both his mother and his wife, as well as same boy to play both himself in childhood and his son.
I like he used a few newsreel images of historical events as part of collective memory in the film, linking all characters by supplying a larger social and historical background.
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