The mirror by TARKOVSKY

The mirror is a travel through consciousness and dreams. Tarkovsky presents us the promenades of his own mind and rambles around composition and the use of ideological montage, he achieves to communicate a tension among his characters, each one is aware of their own Heideggerian cast condition.At the begging he shows a miraculous scene, premonition of the upcoming fusion between the kingdom of reality and the kingdom of dreams where stutterers are healed like in a dream and out of nowhere. In each cut we have long episodes where psychological time is protagonist, few action happens in that moment. Close ups to melancholic faces and ontological dialogues around the question of the objects that surround them as dasein. Tarkovsky creates characters that don’t exist by themselves but immediate and regular according to certain situations but changing as the plot does. Some characters just appear once and, without apparent reason, but they are who uncover themselves through an immediate regularity.

Each emotion is revealed without quasi-curatorial complex discourses, we get first-hand impressions. The composition keeps a clear link between the understood through the visuality of the regular and immediate. Tarkovsky achieves a fusion between formal and intellectual elements inside the filThe film also presents us a thought-flux which easily things this and, after some time, it dreams that. It’s an introspective experiment that superposes personal matters over the reinforcing of a specific plot. The scenes are stories and explorations by themselves, explorations about the alien and the known, symbols that remit us to Art matters.This stress on ontological matters gives us a film where time doesn’t matter, where emotion will be protagonists. Where the mother is perpetually sad, symbol of a lost fight, and Mary and Alexei will be identical reflections of Natalia and IgnaFinally, any character will win the fight against cast condition. The unique way Tarkovsky finds the visual verse, a poem through the image, we get a weighty interest in visual composition, a beautiful collection of images in movement, while the plot is almost let away. An art film that is a deposition of intellectual efforts to reassess oneself existence through the use of personas. A mirror that reflects in another one, infinite number of incomprehensible images that gave us an ending where temporal phases fuse.