Talking about the details of the photos on the wall

Maddison 2021-10-20 17:23:35

While Nicole was in Nora’s office, I noticed a strange photograph on the wall of Nora’s office:

What is so good about this photo? Why do you want to take pictures of tourists looking at the paintings in the art gallery? What is the meaning of the photographer taking this photo? Why is the center of gravity of the composition of this photo squeezed to the right, with a small painting on the left, and an empty chair on purpose?

This was my first reaction when I noticed this work.

I didn’t find the original picture of this photo, but because its scene is particularly like it was taken in the Brera Gallery in Milan, and I just want to go to Brera for a few days, so I went to Brera to find it. The plan of this painting in the photo.

Sure enough, I found it in Brellari:

Brera should have been refurbished in the past few years. Not only has the wall color changed, but the location of many exhibits has also been changed, so the small painting hanging on the left side of this painting in the photographs is gone.

Let's take a look at the original picture of this painting:

This painting is Cena in casa di Simone ("Dinner at Simon's House") painted by the Italian painter Paolo Veronese for the Venetian Monastery . It is a work in the Veronese dinner series. The work depicts the scene where Simon invites Jesus to dinner and Jesus forgives Mary Magdalene. At the feast, Simon told Jesus that Mary Magdalene was a local sinner, but Jesus answered Simon: "I came to your house and you did not give me water to wash my feet, but she washed my feet with tears. And dry it with her hair. You did not welcome me with kissing etiquette, but she kept kissing my feet since I came in. You did not use oil on my head, but she wiped my feet with perfume I tell you, the deep love she expressed proves that many of her sins have been forgiven."

Generally speaking, the main body and focus of the artwork will be placed in the center of the picture, but Veronese drew a cat and a dog fighting for food in the center of the picture. But the focus of the work-Jesus and Magdalene's Maria, was placed on the leftmost position by the painter.

Jesus was not looking at Mary Magdalene, but at what happened at the feast on the right side of the screen. He is watching adults, children, cats and dogs, and observing all the secular plots that happen in the world.

Now when I look back at that photographic work, I can reasonably explain why the photographer vacated the leftmost chair.

The photographer imitated Veronese's special composition, allowing Jesus' observation object to pass through a two-dimensional oil painting, and at the same time, it is included in the real life of human beings.

In this scene of "Marriage Story", the director also imitated the photographer's composition method, placing Nicole on the far right of the sofa, once again sublimating the original oil painting where Jesus observes all the secular stories happening on the right. Scene.

This is the scene where Nicole meets Nora for the first time. Nora is sitting on the left, listening to Nicole.

When Nicole talked to Nora in the office for the last time, Nora told Nicole that women have been responsible for perfection since ancient times and cannot have any flaws, but people can accept that men are irresponsible. When Jesus died, his mother was with him. Not only did the God who created Jesus not come out to help, but even his father Giuseppe did not come out to contribute a sperm when his mother was conceived.

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When the photographer was composing the picture, he also took a small picture on the left to make up for the vacancy of the seat on the left. Although the small painting in Brelari is gone, I found the original painting of this painting, which is a self-portrait of a painter depicting the coming of Jesus.

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  • Deontae 2022-03-24 09:01:23

    When watching a movie, there is always such a dialogue in my mind:-Do you know what is the saddest thing in life? -Not to love, but not to love. -It is not sad, it is just life. When you die one day, you remember these things before you die, which can be called regrets. —So what is sorrow? -Probably because you clearly love someone, but cannot understand everything about him, so you mistakenly understood his kindness as cowardice, mistakenly interpreted his care as stubbornness, and finally regarded his boredom as betrayal, and then you two The past becomes a mistake. -Is this the essence of marriage? -The essence of marriage is loneliness, just like the essence of life, people always want to do something, always want to stay with someone, or become someone, but in the end they put in their complete self. —Is that love destined to be hypocritical? -There is nothing more real than love, so a person must bear his share of loneliness alone.

  • Austin 2022-03-22 09:01:21

    Nicole wants to live in Los Angeles, and she will always want to. Charlie played her perfunctorily, trying to get through, but this eventually became the fuse for the divorce. But even if there is no such thing, they will have differences because of other things, and eventually produce the same result-divorce. Most romance movies beautify marriage and make us mistakenly believe that marriage is beautiful, but "Marriage Story" tells us that marriage is far more complicated and difficult than we thought. This is a movie that shows married people who want to get divorced and single people who do not want to get married. Of course, the focus of this film is not to promote non-marriage, but to warn people to think about remarrying. If you know you're going to get a divorce, it's better to get along for a while before getting married to see if the other party can entrust someone for life. If you can't find that person, you don't have to get married. Flash marriage in order to escape the problem will not solve the problem, it will only breed bigger problems. People always don't pay attention to the other person's ideas, and they have to wait until the other person gets angry or even makes extreme things. After the divorce, Charlie was finally willing to accept a permanent position in Los Angeles, but what's the point?

Marriage Story quotes

  • Charlie: We didn't have a deal it was something we discussed.

    Nora Fanshaw: So it's a deal when it's something you want. And a discussion when Nicole wants it?

  • Nicole: Anyway... .Shall we try this?

    Charlie: Ok

    Charlie: I don't know how to start...

    Nicole: Do you understand why I want to stay in LA?

    Charlie: No.

    Nicole: Well, that's not... Charlie, that's not a useful way for us to start...

    Charlie: I don't understand it.

    Nicole: You don't remember promising that we could do time out there?

    Charlie: We discussed things. We were married, we said things. We talked about moving to Europe, about getting a sideboard or what do you call it, a credenza, to fill that empty space behind the couch. We never did any of it.