Why is the film called Mirror, and not The Bright, Bright Day as it was originally called?
The Bright, Bright Day was the name of the screenplay, not the film. There is no basis for giving the film that name. Can Mirror be considered a surrealist film? No, it certainly cannot. What is surrealist about it? I was against surrealism even when I understood something about it, and I am even more against it now that I no longer understand it all. Even the great Salvador Dali has repudiated surrealism. The movement has in fact disintegrated altogether. What is the subject of Mirror, its idea, moral plot, development, denouement? The writer of that question clearly considers that all those things are essential in any work of art. In reality the concept of things that ‘have to be’ is incompatible with art. A work of art, of whatever art form, is constructed only according to its won principles, and is based on its own, inner, dynamic stereotype. In fact I can answer like a demagogue: in Mirror there are subject and denouement, and all the other things listed in the question. Is there
