Shots and sequences like these appear throughout the film, purposefully dissolving or muddying the distinction between layers of “reality” and “representation”. Similarly, the difference between human life and abstract, representative notions of it is distorted by shots showing things such as a human figure motion being mirrored by a representative, simplified set of lines. In another shot, human eyes are related to a car’s headlights, ambiguating other distinctions: between life and inanimate objects, light going in and light coming out, the perceiver and the perceived—though it’s worth noting that early philosophers thought that light was emitted by the eyes