![]() ![]() I love the way he chooses to begin with the shot of a woman gargling and lets us hear her gargle in front of the mirror, and then show the title, and then the poem starts as she bends down to spit. Kogonada has really hit upon a perfect marriage between these two mediums. They are never looking happily into the mirror and are almost always sad, in fact, one woman even writes on the mirror the word “lonely” in another language (Kogonada wrote text next to it to translate). The images seem to unite together as one, and the poem expresses all of their thoughts harmoniously. The tone of the poem is sad and haunting, which creates a sad yet beautiful tone to the video as well. Then, a woman reads Sylvia Plath’s poem, “The Mirror”, aloud in the background with a Vivaldi classical piece, informing the women as they look at their reflections. Kogonada puts together some very poignant and revealing scenes from Bergman’s films of women looking into mirrors, which feels like a kind of supercut. ![]() This is a beautiful video essay for the criterion collection that seems like a combination of our supercut and voiceover exercises. Who would have more to say about these women than Plath?” “The idea of Plath watching and engaging the women of Bergman is almost too much to bear. ![]()
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