Unlike what most people expected, “Mirrors 2” was not a direct duplication of the first movie; rather, all the aspects of psychological horror anticipated after the success of the first movie was presented in the horror themes of guilt, trauma and redemption in the life of the movie’s central character, Maxim Matheson. Max goes back to work as a night security guard at Mayflower Department Store in New Orleans upon regaining consciousness from an auto accident that killed his fiancée, Kayla.
In the course of the film, mirrors turn into a rather grand form of dramatic repetition And they symbolize Max’s psychology apart from connecting the grim life of the protagonist to the bleak history of the store. By the way, the narrative is most effective at building suspense, Max is central to it, and multiple scenes depict him talking to Dr. Beaumont as a therapist. Therefore there is lack of light in shoot out scenes to show the cold conditions as well effects that depict the attitude of Max.
Where the emotionality of the movie excels is where character development for the secondary characters fails for the most part, and that is why some confrontations are somewhat disconnected from the growth of Max’s character. In the last scene shown in the movie, a great and a thrilling scene is ensured to provide a well fortified final portion of the story depending on the subject of revenge and sin that has been committed. Last but not least, ‘Mirrors 2’ is a post-modern echo of the theme indicated coming within the context of supernatural horror genre.
