Deep Dark Truthful Mirror

Anton Walbrook in Der Student von Prag

Raimund Stecker once said commenting on Gerhard Richter's mirrors that it is probably only the artist who is able to stand his own image in the mirror.

There is also the marvellous movie Der Student von Prag (1935), where the student's reflection becomes detached. Here's my review.

Anton Walbrook 1930

Yet there is always the other side of it, the mere superficial reflection exemplified by Narcissus. Doomed to be forever lost in outward beauty until one becomes the grotesque carricature of one's own features, a more horrible ending than that of the poor student of Prague.