Mirror
A famous legend imagines the top soviet critics baffled at the end of a test screening of Mirror , trying to piece together its meaning, without success. The intellectuals kept arguing and would not leave the room, until the cleaning lady, fed up with their presence and more than else longing to be able to finish her work and go home, interrupted them giving the perfect summary of what happens in the film: a dying man in his forties remembers his life, fights with his regrets, as memories and dreams fade together. Tarkovsky's Mirror is not a solid reflection, it is rather best described as a shattered mirror, fragmented, caleidoscopical, composed by isolated pieces that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. The single scenes are pieced together not in a linear order, but in terms of associations, of a sort of stream of consciousness, a thin line of meaning or inter-reference being the only connection: there is a house burning, and in the next scene, a voice on a phone call talks about...
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