Tuesday, October 16, 2012

"The False Mirror" + "Bladerunner"

"The False Mirror" -- Rene Magritte

"Bladerunner" -- dir. Ridley Scott

What is the false mirror? 
Is it the eye? The image of the eye? Perception itself?
Of course, Magritte also plays with windows (i.e. 'The Human Condition') so maybe here, the eye is an extension of his mirror / hole-in-the-wall motif:  the eye is a window is a false mirror; it does not reflect, but opens into the world?

The false mirror does not reflect the world, but ingests it; the exterior becomes interior, and vice-versa.
There is no foreground in this image.  The eye and the sky are both given equal precedence.

And what is a replicant?
A false human?  A false soul?

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