Orpheus: Death is Delicate and Mirrors are Portals-Jared Lestenkof

 I enjoyed “Orpheus” more than I thought to be honest. I really liked the way the director  used mirrors as portals and how they made death a delicate woman. I was also impressed with the way they used them because it was done so well.



The way they used mirrors was done very well because they took an ordinary everyday object and turned it into something impossible. It makes sense why the main character didn’t want to tell people what he discovered at first because he would sound absolutely insane. When I see examples of any of this in movies it really makes me wonder if people are really crazy? For example, what if someone actually saw something impossible like a unicorn and they told you about it you would think they are crazy.



Another thing I like about this film is the way the director uses death. Normally when you think of death you think of the grim reaper, but in here it’s perceived as a delicate woman dressed in dark clothing who just watches you and follows you around. This to me shows how death is, not that death is a delicate experience but that death has a delicate overlook to people. Death can happen anywhere at any time and people don’t think about it obviously because they are living their lives, but it is still something to expect as hard as that is to sound. Just like the woman it looks like she's just living her life, but in reality you are unaware what is happening and it’s very unexpecting.


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  1. Sarah DickersonFebruary 25, 2021 at 9:39 AM

    Hi Jared, I really liked the way that you described how she represents death. I love how you said "death is not a delicate experience but has delicate people to overlook it". I did not think of it this way. This reminds me of how people view angels and stuff like that. Basically that although death seems so scary that doesn't necessarily mean that it is, it is just such an unknown thing and sometimes unexpected.

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  2. Emily SheedyFebruary 25, 2021 at 5:30 PM

    Jared,
    I really liked your thoughts about death. The representation of death I think is something a lot of movies do wrong and taking on the twist of making it a delicate women was very interesting to me as well. I liked your thoughts specifically about how death lurks over you. I wish I had thought about it in my post because that is a very interesting point that the women also just lurks around the characters.

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