{"id":8361,"date":"2008-08-24T21:07:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T01:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8361"},"modified":"2024-04-26T21:59:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T01:59:32","slug":"the-man-in-the-mirror-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8361","title":{"rendered":"Mirrors #2: The Man In the Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You didn&#8217;t think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6006\">I&#8217;d forgotten<\/a>, did you?<\/p>\n<p>I forget nothing.<\/p>\n<p>I still haven&#8217;t written the damn thing but I now have a file folder on my desktop filled with screengrabs of men looking at themselves (or at somebody else) in the mirror throughout cinematic history.<\/p>\n<p>More to come, including my thoughts about it all &#8211; having let it percolate for a year and a half.  It&#8217;s been a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a glimpse of just some of the images I have compiled.  The third one down is particularly creepy &#8230; and makes a lot of sense, in the larger cinematic context of images of men-with-themselves-as opposed-to-men-with-the-world\/reflections-in-general\/self-awareness\/fantasy &#8230; But I&#8217;ll get to that when I write the thing.  I&#8217;m getting ready.  I can always feel it when I start to <i>gather my forces<\/i> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/welles117-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"303\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-181862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/welles117-1.jpg 394w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/welles117-1-200x154.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/welles117-1-100x77.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/EyeglassLensStrangers1951.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-83377\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/compulsion51-e1665681344717.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"301\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-181194\" \/><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/martin-sheen-punch.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"209\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-181863\" \/><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jzp4n12qucz31-e1665932890307.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-181864\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/dwwf4ie3hrnjunxbgqeb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"265\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-181865\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d forgotten, did you? I forget nothing. I still haven&#8217;t written the damn thing but I now have a file folder on my desktop filled with screengrabs of men looking at themselves (or at somebody else) in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8361\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,4],"tags":[1319,1293,2646,1389,64,1509,471,1994],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8361"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190965,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions\/190965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}