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Mirror was an extremely personal film for its director Andrei Tarkovsky. It's based off his life but I think Tarkovsky wants this movie to be as personal to us as it is to him. The movie is a series of memories and dreams of the main character yet we only see his face in those memories and never in the present. I think this help us put ourselves in the characters shoes and reflect upon our own lives.

The movie is called "Mirror" which is a device used to reflect an image, essentially that is what this film is about, the reflection of our own lives/history. Mirror uses beautiful cinematography and music or lack of music to raise the questions of what kind of things we reflect on and how we reflect on them.

What do you reflect on? The main character never reflects on happy or positive moments. Sure his life was hard, but I doubt he never experienced joy. He was married, he had a child, he was an inocente child himself yet we never see positive or happy moments from any of these points in his life. He said all he wanted to be was happy yet every reflection since his childhood is bleak.

How do we reflect? It's obvious none of his reflections are accurate portrayals of events as they happened but are simply his own memories. He remembers some events is black and white, others in color, and he always remembers his mother looking like his ex-wife. All of us remember things differently than they actually happened. Do we do this on purpose to convince ourselves of a different reality or is it something that happens naturally as we move further past the event? Can we even trust our own memories?

I think this is a film that can be understood a million different ways because as I've said it allows you to reflect on your own life. This film can lead you to ponder your childhood, marriage, war, dreams, death, and even your own ability to remember.

Silent movies can be difficult to get into. I think this is a good intro into this era of film making. Its rather short so its not too intimidating if you are trying to get into silent films. The movie being over on hundred years old has had a lot already said about it, so there isn't much I can add, but watching this film is quite the experience for me.

The film is quite creepy. The set design is famous for its weird distorted world it creates. The characters seem to fit in with the weird environment. It all fits the story perfectly. A mad man controlling a sleep walker to murder people. Its a very creative film. Then there is that ending. This kind of invented the twist ending. Then the last shot almost makes you believe there is a twist on the twist.

This film is very important to film history. You can see its influence through out all of film history.

This movie was nothing ground breaking, and yet it's one of the best movies I've seen in theaters for years. This movie knows exactly what it is, and what the audience wants. There wasn't 500 different sub plots, no big lazar in the sky to blow up the world, no SJW message, just a simple story. That's all it needed to do, and it does it. They focus on having good characters who have their own weaknesses, yet grow and learn, and become better people by the end of the film. Tom cruise dose a great job. And we can't forget about the action. Freaking awesome. This movie will hold up for years because it's so realistic. Just amazingly captured action. All I can say is Bad a**