![]() ![]() In few Twilight Zone episodes are setting and atmosphere used as effectively as in "Mirror Image". To his horror that Millicent's fears were justified: he sees his own double. In the final moments of the episode, Paul discovers Unravel, he calls the police to have her taken away. Aįellow traveler named Paul Grinstead tries to calm Millicent's nerves, but after her sanity starts to Millicent comes to believe that this double is a malignant force who is trying to annihilate her. Sense of reality these culminate in her momentarily glimpsing her exact double (her "mirror image"). Rainy November night, a young woman named Millicent Barnes has several experiences that assault her While waiting for a bus in a depot late on a The plot of "Mirror Image" can be summarized as follows. These allusions, revealed through character, setting, dialogue and cinematography,Ĭombine to make "Mirror Image" one of the most fascinating and subtle of all Twilight Zone episodes. McCarthyism, and other Cold War-era themes which Serling dealt with in a more "explicit" manner in In it not only the perennial Twilight Zone theme of identity, but also subtle allusions to totalitarianism, It is my intention to show that it is much more that one can find "Mirror Image" has traditionally been viewed as an effective thriller, an atmosphericĮvocation of a late-night bad dream. Makes us feel that there must be more here than meets the eye - that every line and action must hold Serling's tersely written,Įven mundane dialogue, combined with John Brahm's visually evocative mise en scene, conspire to Quote one of the episode's main characters, "This one's tough to figure out". "Mirror Image" we are confronted with an eerie, enigmatic little tale with no obvious meaning. Yet while many of Rod Serling's other Twilight Zone scripts state their message outright, in "Mirror Image" is widely regarded by Twilight Zone fans as one of the gems of the series' first season Beyond the Mirror: Hidden Meaning in "Mirror Image" by Michael Martin DeSapio ![]()
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