I've seen the movie twice now, and I noticed that death and intense emotions seem to coincide with the breaking of glass. The jar holding the son's heart breaking, the father breaking through a pane of glass and falling to his death/drowns in beer, the legs breaking, Chester being stabbed by a shard of glass, etc. I wonder if anyone else noticed this, and what their take on it was.
shareI may be wrong, but I think glass represents the distorted perception of all the characters. Like the expression: through a glass darkly
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Great catch— now that you've mention it, I see the glass symbolized as a fragile grip on the past— Lady Port Huntley's lust for her missing limbs, Roderick's unwillingness to accept his son's death.
One day we'll all be dead...
but today we're all alive
And the scene discussing Helen and her glass, too - with the Beer glass pair. I still laugh when at the wife punchline. Overall, I think it has to do with perception - Through the lens, and even through the glass pieces of a kaleidescope.
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