It explores an idea: can a copy be worth more than the original? What is the real value of art?
The male protagonist thinks that it's not the object that matters, it's your perception of it. It's not just what's in a museum that's unique, you put mundane objects in a gallery and you change the way people look at them. What matters is not the original itself, but the way we look at it. From this level, the value of art lies in letting the viewer gain something. Leonardo da Vinci copied the Mona Lisa's smile, and so did the copy. There is no difference between the copy and the original at this level.
There’s one dialogue scene in the film that stands out to me in particular: the hero and heroine discuss how the heroine’s sister, Mary, views his stuttering husband. Mary thought his stuttering husband was reciting a love poem when he called her name, and her view of his husband changed his value.
I think a lot of the time, how we live depends on how we look at life, just like Mary.
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