Toda vez que Nadia e Alan morrem Boneca do russo eles reaparecem na frente de um espelho. Com todas as suas diferenças, este é um novo ponto de partida para os dois. Por que um espelho? Por que não na frente de uma janela ou na cama?
Achei isso muito curioso. Isso deveria ser uma maneira de fazê-los encarar a si mesmos e a seus medos?
Eles são simbólicos. Eles são os assuntos de uma das seções em esta explicação do show da IndieWire:
Mirrors, reflections, and how one perceives one’s identity or narrative also comes up multiple times in “Russian Doll.” In one scene, Aunt Ruth recounts an incident from Nadia’s past to Alan. “Don’t get me started on the mirrors,” Ruth says. “One day, [Nadia’s mother] shattered them, and when I came to take Nadia to school, the mirrors were gone and there was glass everywhere.”
Isso ocorre no sexto episódio, e as próximas linhas em particular oferecem uma pista:
“Why mirrors?” Alan asks. “Reflection, proof of existence, another pair of eyes,” Ruth explains. “That’s why therapists are important. Without them, we are very unreliable narrators of our own stories.”
O desaparecimento dos espelhos é na verdade um ponto importante da trama:
Both Alan and Nadia come back to life in the same place – in front of their respective bathroom mirrors, and Nadia knows something is going wrong when the mirrors begin to disappear from her timeline. Like Emily, it’s up to her to adjust what she perceives her next steps to be. The ultimate example of how not reflecting on the past or relationships can haunt her occurs during her diner death, right after she gives the girl Lucy (Tatiana E. Rivera) a copy of “Emily of New Moon.” Nadia begins to cough up blood and eventually… a shard from a mirror emerges from her mouth. Not dealing with the reality of her crappy mother is hurting her in the most literal way possible.
Os espelhos também aparecem em outras cenas:
Even the womanizing literature professor Mike (Jeremy Lowell Bobb) is affected by a loss of reflection. When Alan bursts into the philanderer’s office, pummels him, and then shatters a mirror, Mike is left visibly flustered. He asks his student how his face looks and adds, “The mirror’s gone. I can’t tell.” Even though he’s unwilling to admit it, the attack makes him reflect on his part of the infidelity by sleeping with Alan’s girlfriend and the hurt he had caused. If he is to accept the ladies’ man side of himself, he also needs to accept the morally grey side of himself in the partners he chooses.
Observe os múltiplos significados de "reflexão".
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