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Jed 2022-04-23 07:02:14

A very beautiful literary film, because the picture is too beautiful, it took a long time to finish it a little bit.

Metaphors and lens language express many facts that have not yet happened. The pious girl wears a headscarf, but her hair is seen by the painter; the artist pierces the ears of the naturally chaste girl, bleeds, hurts, and puts on a woman's pearl earrings. Immediately afterwards, the scene of kissing but not kissing could not hide the lust that was about to come out. The virgin's desire was secretly awakened, and the son of the butcher vented his mental agitation with the flesh.

Everything about the girl and the painter is limited to gaze and touch, but it has already transcended spiritually. The hostess said obscene, it is not an exaggeration. Of course, some people feel that the hostess is pitiful, and that the girl is a spiritual third party. This is true, but it is indeed beautiful and profound, so how can we criticize it? It is human nature to love beauty, and beauty will always override morality.

Art and reality are contrasted everywhere in the film like light and shadow. The barren and shabby street market and the splendid merchant's house, the chaste girl in the painting and the old gangster who can only be seen from afar, the girl's pure eyes and the plump pearl on the earlobe. Beauty is created by contrast and conflict, just like the tear of a girl, it is pain and love.

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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!