Mirrors, in earlier times polished metal plates, surfaces of stoves, natural stone plates and the like have been suspected to be entrances into a world beyond this our world since the oldest times. So, I cannot agree when a crew member said that the movie's basic purpose was to show how people actually care about their reality. "Our" reality can only be cared for in contrast with another reality. If there is only one reality, there is nothing to compare with.
In addition to the well-known geography there is, according to the philosopher Gotthard Günther, something like a "metaphysical geography", which shows that the mirrors and the flat plates are just a subset of a whole world of remote mountain valleys, ravines, hollows, holes, clefts, gaps and other openings which stimulated the fantasy of humankind on the surface of the earth as the ocean did underneath the surface and where ghosts and other supernatural beings were supposed to live and do their pranks. What was obviously not supposed to be populated by humans and animals, had to be populated by fairies, and it was only a question of time until the conquest of this ghosts would start against the humans. Information abolishes the lack of knowledge, but the lack of knowledge creates fear, and hence the main source for the projection mechanisms that populated the world beyond the mirrors.
I cannot agree with, as it seems, the majority of people for whom "Mirrors" (2008) is a second-class movie. It has scenes that go even beyond "The Silence of the Lambs". One scene towards the end is a nice reverence to Cronenberg's "Scanners". The slasher-tricks are built in this movie with a consistent sense of the aesthetics of ugliness.
In addition to the well-known geography there is, according to the philosopher Gotthard Günther, something like a "metaphysical geography", which shows that the mirrors and the flat plates are just a subset of a whole world of remote mountain valleys, ravines, hollows, holes, clefts, gaps and other openings which stimulated the fantasy of humankind on the surface of the earth as the ocean did underneath the surface and where ghosts and other supernatural beings were supposed to live and do their pranks. What was obviously not supposed to be populated by humans and animals, had to be populated by fairies, and it was only a question of time until the conquest of this ghosts would start against the humans. Information abolishes the lack of knowledge, but the lack of knowledge creates fear, and hence the main source for the projection mechanisms that populated the world beyond the mirrors.
I cannot agree with, as it seems, the majority of people for whom "Mirrors" (2008) is a second-class movie. It has scenes that go even beyond "The Silence of the Lambs". One scene towards the end is a nice reverence to Cronenberg's "Scanners". The slasher-tricks are built in this movie with a consistent sense of the aesthetics of ugliness.