Beckett's script has been interpreted in various ways. R. C. Lamont writes that ""Film" deals with the apprenticeship to death, the process of detaching oneself from life. Like the Tibetan "Book of the Dead", it teaches the gradual dissolution of self. The veiling of the windows and mirrors, the covering of the birdcage – the extinction of light, reflection and light – are so many ritualistic steps to be taken before final immobility, the resignation of the end.” At the end of "Film", O is seated in his rocker with his face buried in his hands; at the end of "Rockaby", the old woman's head inclines forward as if, finally, she had died. The final scene in "Film" is also comparable to the moment in the library when the old man in "That Time" sees his own reflection in the glass covering a painting.