Mirror

Ok, so this one was tough. I could try and make some broad sweeping analysis, but it would be shallow and most likely wrong. So instead here's what I can figure out...

- The main character is one actress playing both Alyosha's mother and wife.
- Tarkovsky is playing with major elemental imagery using water, fire, wind, and earth. (but I can't seem to figure out what it means exactly)
- The sequences in black and white are either dreams or bridges between the "mother" and "wife" phases of the main character.

... I know, its not a lot, but the only analysis I can offer is that the lives of the two women (wife and mother) are mirrors of each other, especially concerning Alyosha.