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If the mirror world was real, then we would have seen Maria living an alternative life there as Airam. One where she isn’t bullied because she isn’t an easy target, and maybe one where the boy she likes isn’t happy to date the girl who bullies her. But there wasn’t a second world there for her, so the story is more about a hallucinated alter ego, a split self, and a chance to reimagine who she could be if she wasn’t alone. Her parents both fail to care for her, her father is an abusive hypercritical bully, and her mother fails to protect her from him. So when she then tries to protect herself she uses violence and threats, she also uses a level of violence and intimidation that is one of absolute murderous rage, because she’s been simmering with these feelings of anger her whole life, so they seem like disproportionate responses to the moment but they’re really about years of abuse. This is what happens in the real world too, when people who have been abused begin to enact violence on others. They often have poor impulse control too, because they have never had that role model of someone protecting them properly, so when they start to be more forceful and assertive in trying to protect themselves, they can lean into it too much and become dangerous and scary. Sociopathy develops in circumstances like this. I feel like this film is about how a child can become one when they try to stand up for themselves, finding out that she was a twin is Maria’s inciting incident because she realises there could be another version of herself and that they could have protected each other so she wouldn’t be so alone.