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Movie Review On :Mirrors"

MOVIE REVIEW
Movie: Mirror Trenee’ Lee
Movie type: Horror 10-22-2008
Psychology 11:30-12:55
Type of Psychology: Self-Image

“Objects are closer than what they appear”
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“The idea of this movie was to make you wonder is there a whole other world living in a different plane, stuck watching you in reverse.”

Kiefer Sutherland stars as Ben Carson, an ex-cop who has been suspended from the NYPD for the shooting death of an undercover detective. Ben stays with his sister Amy, while trying to piece the rest of his life back together and reconnect with his family. Ben finally catches a break when he gets a job working nightshift as a security guard at the Mayflower, a once prestigious Manhattan department store that’s been left vacant for 5 years since a terrible fire swept through it, killing several people and leaving the building in despair. Ben isn’t on the job for long when weird things start to happen as he makes his rounds inside the Mayflower. His predecessors had inexplicably committed suicide but sent Ben a package beforehand warning him about the building, which has ceiling high ornate mirrors hung throughout. Ben soon sees horrific images in the mirror that physically affect him. As Ben began to piece the dark past of the Mayflower and why strange things are happening now, he also discovers that all mirrors or reflective surfaces are actually a gateway between our world and something else. The images are so powerful and explicit that people burning alive incinerating flesh melting the bone, he feels their effect as if he was being burned by the fire himself. The mirrors hold a dark secret, which has put him and his family in serious danger. The mirrors give Ben a chance to end the maddest. Ben does everything the mirrors ask,...