You were in his pocket when you first loved him (View "The Girl with a Pearl Earring")

Abby 2021-12-31 08:01:50

The movie "The Girl with a Pearl Earring" is a maid's perspective that reflects the life of the great painter Vermeer in the nineteenth century. The picture is beautiful, and each lens has a texture like an oil painting.
The line of the movie "You are already in his pocket" can best represent the theme of the movie.
The pretty Glière was forced to work as a maid at the painter Vermeer's house due to a poor family. Because Greer is beautiful and has a super sensitive heart for art, it is only favored by the painter. Because the painter seems to be unable to completely control his own life, the only thing he can control is that his studio territory cannot be entered casually, including his wife and mother-in-law.
The painter Vermeer lived in his mother-in-law's house, and his wife gave him eleven children. In order to support a large family, his patron must be supported. His mother-in-law is a powerful authority, and all the paintings and outside operations are performed by his mother-in-law. A wife has no way to manage her family, and she will be jealous except to have a baby.
The patron of the Vermeer family fell in love with the Vermeer maid Griet and ordered a portrait based on the maid. In order to make ends meet, Vermeer’s mother-in-law distracted her daughter (because women are naturally sensitive, Vermeer’s wife is unwilling to have any affiliation with the maid Griet and her husband) and let her son-in-law paint the maid Griet, and according to the painter’s request, Secretly gave her daughter's beloved pearl earrings to the maid.
When the maid arrived at this home, she was assigned to the painter's studio for cleaning. When I saw Vermeer's painting in the studio for the first time, Griet was completely stunned, and the deep love for art was instantly awakened. Hysterically stroked Vermeer's painting with a humble hand. The painter also feels that young girls are sensitive to artistic nature, and beautiful young girls have brought a series of inspirations to the painter. He asked her to buy paint for him and teach her to grind paint. Griye was so enthusiastic about all of this that he didn't hesitate to get up early. When they work together, it feels so beautiful. The ambiguity gradually increased during the time together, and the maid fell in love with Vermeer deeply.
People are sensitive, especially women. When the mother-in-law put the pearl earrings in Griye's hands, she stared at Griye's flustered eyes with cold eyes, and she seemed to see through everything and said proudly: "Take it, you It's already in his bag." The maid fled humbly. The mother-in-law who has always been strong and self-confident and muttered to herself: "We (referring to her and her daughter's family) are not in his pocket."
Great people always attract many people around them like strong magnets.
"The Girl with a Pearl Earring" is Vermeer's famous painting. Before the camera fully appeared, Vermeer showed that only today's photography technology can achieve that kind of light and shadow effect. Therefore Vermeer is known as the first photographer in history.
Maybe Vermeer, the painter in the movie, loves the maid Gleelet very much, but the overall feeling of the movie is like the sentimental self-narration of the maid Gleelet. Vermeer's wife discovered that her husband not only drew the humble maid but also asked her to wear her beloved pearl earrings. She was angry and felt humiliated, so she drove off Griye with anger and shame. Poor Griye had to marry a butcher who matched her identity, and that was her best destination. At the end of the film, Gree Ye received the belated pearl earrings, but Gree Ye used it to sell off the painter's debt.
The painter seemed to love her only at a certain level. He opened the door of art for her and painted her portraits, but in the end he refused her either emotionally or artistically. To him, she was a model for a painting, something that stimulated his artistic inspiration. To her, he was her lifetime memories and thoughts. At the beginning of his painting, she was in his pocket.
Of course, the story behind a painting in this movie may be the world's guess. The girl wearing pearl earrings in the picture is very beautiful, with slightly raised lips, she can't talk about it. This must be a wonderful experience for the painter. Movies are just movies, and the great achievements of a painter cannot be carried by movies and a relationship. Because of the greatness, let all those who love him become his bag. This included Hitler's strong possession of his paintings. Including New York artist George Dean's crazy research on one of his paintings "The Art of Painting" for 40 years and so on.
Emotional matters are very delicate. At the beginning of loving him, you have nowhere to escape, you can only become his possession.

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  • Lola 2021-12-31 08:01:50

    Nothing happened and everything happened.

  • Justus 2022-03-22 09:01:52

    Is this a filter or what? The whole movie is just a European and American retro oil painting costume scene. The beauty is too exaggerated. I don't know much about the history of those paintings, nor the romances of these artists. As a passerby who is purely watching the theater, what I see is when I learn that my husband and maid are ambiguous, and I even collude with my mother to steal my pearl earrings to paint. That disappointment, anger and deep insecurity behind the painting, Scarlett Johansson is so well done.

Girl with a Pearl Earring quotes

  • Vermeer: [Describing his newly arrived Camera Obscura] See this? This is called a lens. Beams of reflected light from that corner pass through it, into the box, so that we can see it here.

    Griet: Is it real?

    Vermeer: It's an image. A picture made of light.

    Griet: Does the box show you what to paint?

    Vermeer: It helps.

  • Maria Thins: A connoisseur in everything, Master Van Ruijven. But, you should be faithful to one mistress above all others: Art!