The Mirror
william_kent
Well-known member
the best British film about zombie biker gangs and toad magick has a pivotal mirror scene - mirror as scrying device revealing secrets
Psychomania - mirror scene ( well, it's the whole film but I've done the start at 14:23 thing )
Psychomania - mirror scene ( well, it's the whole film but I've done the start at 14:23 thing )
IdleRich
IdleRich
I think I'm saying something slightly different though - it might be literally true in that it is what happens but at the same time still not worth saying as a response to people who are genuinely unhappy about what is being selected for them.
woops
is not like other people
there's a disturbing Russian art film from the 70s about idk what cos i can't get my head round his stuffThere's a disturbing arty porno from the 70s called Through the Looking Glass that involves a girl being assaulted by a demon that comes through a haunted mirror in the attic.
Through the Looking Glass (film) - Wikipedia
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We've already got a doppelgangers thread, but that's another part of it. The sinister double.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
soundtrack
I made a thread a few years ago describing genres which could only seem to respond to their own past as being trapped in a hall of mirrors.
william_kent
Well-known member
Kenneth Grant - Outside The Circles of Time
describing his texts as a "magical mirror"
IdleRich
IdleRich
There's a disturbing arty porno from the 70s called Through the Looking Glass that involves a girl being assaulted by a demon that comes through a haunted mirror in the attic.
Through the Looking Glass (film) - Wikipedia
That's a great film. One of my friends said that there are loads of "art films" that basically end up being porn, but that is the only film he knows where they set out to make porn and ended up accidentally making an art film. You missed out the - I think - important detail that the mirror demon that rapes her is also her father.
woops
is not like other people
how come you're so used to seeing them otherwise?
Benny Bunter
Well-known member
You could read the mirror in this poem as being cracked - fracturing the self into multiple identities.
And no doubt someone can and probably will dredge up a YouTube video of a song called 'cracked mirror' for a larf
woops
is not like other people
could do bit of a stretch though imo he's just looking at himself on different occasions
She who could never live save through one person,
She who could never speak save to one person,
And all the rest of her a shifting change,
A broken bundle of mirrors . . . !
Near Perigord by Ezra Pound
Comments & analysis: You'd have men's hearts up from the dust / And tell their secrets, Messire Cino,
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I think the reverse is what I meant. The clash of you in the mirror vs. you in a photograph.
Benny Bunter
Well-known member
Same difference
woops
is not like other people
if you want to get into broken mirrors you're into Tennyson followed by Agatha Christie, lol this might be an even better game then the YouTube one.
Out flew the web and floated wide-
The mirror crack'd from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalott.
Out flew the web and floated wide-
The mirror crack'd from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalott.