Mirror

I woul be lying if I said I completely comprehended the film "Mirror", in fact I didn't understand it at all but that does not take away the artistic merit that this film has. As far as I could tell the film is about a man and his children at different stages of their lives in a jumbled up order. Though they do not say it out right or whether it was his fault, it appears that the man is feeling deeply guilty about burning down a cottage as a child. It also seems that the man seems to have some sort of Oedipus complex, or some other type of complex with his mother that interfiers with the relationship between him and his baby's mother. The only real pattern that I noticed in the film was that almost every time it switched to black and white the people seemed to move faster or be buisier and it almost always seemed to be raining. In the scenes that were color the characters tended to move at a much more leisurely pace. One thing I found interesting was that the scenes in color almost always with a close up of one of the characters and a single tear rolling down their cheek. Of all the scenes the one that seemed the most out of place was at the very beginning of the film with the man who had a stuttering problem, with the exception of that, everything seemed as though it fit together. Overall it was a very interesting movie and i wish i would've understood it more.