Delicate like a pearl, moved like a girl

Lilyan 2022-04-20 09:01:43

I don't know if I prefer these kinds of films, or if they can really penetrate into our hearts. The girl in the indigo turban in the picture, like a ray of sunshine in spring, timidly brings us into the world of a painter. If there is a vague feeling, the radiant raindrop-shaped pearl earrings, the cold air of traditional Europe, this is not even a love, but it is still unforgettable.
To borrow a passage I read before, this love is just a pearl temporarily perched on the earlobe, feel the pain and beauty between its comings and goings, and let time silently fill the void left by it. Those small ear piercings are the traces of love, the beautiful testimony of the girl's transformation into growth, and the infatuation that blooms only for one person in her life.
Just like the unpredictable emotions that oil paintings bring to people, this film also has this feeling. The narrative method is as beautiful as the movie posters. The indescribable faint sad feelings that pervade the air can only be slowly Aftertaste it.

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Girl with a Pearl Earring quotes

  • Van Ruijven: So, have you decided what to do up next, Jan? Have you found inspiration up in that room of yours? Is there another patron in Delft with pockets as deep as mine?

  • 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.