Mirror

Mirror is such a special movie to me. It's a movie that truly shows how each filmmaking aspect (cinematography, dialogue, editing, production design, music & sound design, acting etc.) can illicit a certain feeling out of you, individually but also combined. The movie isn't about the reflections we see of the main character, but about the act of reflecting itself. Hence the title Mirror. When you look back at memories you don't go through them from A to B to C. You go from B.6 to D.42 to A.1. You seem to remember the big parts, but for some reason also some minor details. You can't perfectly visualize what everything looked like. You think about what you could have done or said but didn't. Faces start looking exactly like each other; that's why Alekseis mother and ex-wife are played by the same actress. In the case of reflecting (not to confuse with trying to recall exactly what happened) you're head isn't concerned about finding the logic of the situation, but about how you felt when it happened. That's why it's also pointless to try and ''get'' or ''understand'' this movie. The most important thing you have to ask yourself is how did it make you feel? When you take a look into a mirror you're not surprised by what you see. It's still you and you know what you look like. But when you look long enough the image you see all of a sudden triggers something inside you... I loved watching it even more than last time and I'm confident many rewatches are on the horizon as well. Definetely in my top 15 movies ever made