Friday, October 29, 2010

Smoke and Mirrors... but Mostly the Mirrors

Ahh those mirrors. Much like what Kane did by walking past two parallel mirrors, I tried the same thing in my bathroom yesterday on a smaller scale. To say the least the effect was jarring. When I placed my hand between the mirrors it multiplied into an infinite number of hands on an infinite number of planes of existence. To say the least the visual effect was quite jarring, but of course I knew that this would happen because I've done this experiment before, and been in a house of mirrors before. In a way though when we saw Charles Foster Kane on screen for the final time, we saw Charles Foster Kane and his innumerable number of mirror duplicates too. This visual trickery made this moment resonate in my mind and raised questions of what this means. Does it mean that Kane is infinite and everlasting in his own right? Does it say that we have only seen one "reflection" of Kane's life and that there is an innumerable amounts of other facets to Kane? Can it mean that every aspect of Kane is not real, except the one true Kane that is indistinguishable from the rest? Honestly I can't say, but what I do know is that Orson Welles took this secret as well as many more to the grave with him, much like how the secret behind "Rosebud" will remain a secret to rest of the world in Citizen Kane.

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