Tracing the thread…
His films obsessively explore how characters mirror each other's alienation and psychological emptiness through composition and reflection.
David Lynch United StatesHe consistently uses duality, doubling, and mirror imagery to explore fractured identities and the uncanny mimicry between conscious and unconscious selves.
Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet UnionHis meditative films use reflective surfaces and parallel narrative structures to examine how consciousness mirrors the material world and human relationships.