Reflection

This movie revolves around a young girl who lost her siblings and became handicapped after suffering a terror attack at their home. The girl cannot escape the horrors of the traumatic incident even in her dreams and usually finds herself in a situation prior to the moment of attack while dreaming. In every dream, she encounters a mirror in which she foresees the events. Mirror provides us with our self-reflection, and it’s a common adage that a mirror doesn’t tell a lie. In mystical literature, the mirror symbolizes one’s inner self, a place where divine’s manifestations can be seen or the ultimate truth is reflected. Indian Persian poets, particularly Bidel Dehlavi, have widely used the image of the mirror as a metaphor with a range of meanings. At times it symbolizes astonishment and bewilderment while at other instances it reflects someone’s longing for a lost vision. Hence we have selected the mirror as a symbol of our protagonist’s past reflections and her fearful astonishment.

Also the situations we have selected symbolically depict the sufferings of our protagonist. The girl finds herself in snowy surroundings in her first dream vision. In modern Urdu and Persian poems, snow symbolizes the indifference of society towards the miserable and the ones living on the peripheries. It also symbolizes the lack of warmth of human emotions for one another. Iqbal has also portrayed winter and snow as the wrath of God and writes that a hell is a cold place and every person there brings with him or herself the fire of their sins. Hence, the snow for our protagonist also symbolizes the indifference of society and surroundings towards her miserable condition and the absence of the warmth of family’s love which is now replaced by the snow of harshness.

Similarly the sand and desert in the second dream-vision portray the hardships this protagonist is going to face in her life head. She will find herself under the burning sun without the protecting shade of her family.