A classic where aesthetics trumps thought

Yvonne 2022-03-22 09:01:52

The Girl with a Pearl Earring is a figure as mysterious as the Mona Lisa in the history of painting.

This film captures the urban customs of the Delft region of the Netherlands. Blue porcelain and oil painting are two well-known local art forms, and records many customs pictures.

The female protagonist came from a family of blue potters who came to Vermeer's mysterious oil painting studio and became his assistant and model. This fictional story is vividly displayed by oil painting-like tones and custom picture composition.

Scarlett's acting is not as good as her face, but she also shows her cautious, beautiful without knowing, or restless lust.

In "Second Sex", it is said that in society, artists always seem to be occupied by men. The family regards men as god-like beings, thanking them for their blessings.

The master's studio is the mysterious center of the family, the source of income, and it depends entirely on its output to not go bankrupt. He is also very capricious, regardless of his family's full and warm pursuit of the ultimate.

His attention to the maid provokes jealousy in his daughter and wife. The Netherlands because of Rubens showed me the rough and sensual market, and Vermeer showed all the young and beautiful characters. This demand for beauty cannot avoid a constant substitution.

The wife is trapped by the pressure to maintain her identity, Grete is trapped by love that transcends class morals, and the little girl is trapped by the loss of parental care.

Grete's feelings for Vermeer come from her attachment to her father, and she hopes to be rescued; the hostess longs for her husband's love, and it is difficult to understand the meaning of "understanding"; the little girl prefers her mother and longs for possession, which is the externalization of her mother's eyes and behavior .

About the love shown in the film. I can fully understand the heartbeat of Beauty in Pink's bright smile, and the director is also trapped in the shackles of not breaking the rules. In addition to the beautification of the painter's private life, he uses turbans and ear-piercing holes to express eroticism, but it also establishes the artist's concept: beauty is life itself The appearance is reflected in the pursuit of pearl reflection light and shadow and the redness of blood-filled lips. Do not force possession, do not live up to the wife.

But is the fate of women really that good?

When the collectors were plotting bad things, when the painter forcibly pierced the girl's ears regardless of the social and public opinion environment in which the girl lived, the girl was possessed, consumed, and watched as the other, and her future destiny was only to tighten the white hood in the blue turban. Pearl (I don't know about the life and death of the male lead).

The blue of the father Lan Tao and the white of the painter's wife, Pearl, cannot prove her identity. She is a wanderer and has no support, and the love with the butcher's son has not been clearly promised in the film.

In the halo of freedom and love, pain is an inconspicuous little hole in the earlobe. What I see is her dedication to art and a kind of Virgin's love that does not require any return. She has created the innocence of the picture. desire.

However, the women behind the artist quarreled and died for him. So just as my friend said that it was unrealistic for girls to want to be housewives, he was angry and said why is it for you, I think why is it for you...

Compared with the relationship between sex, love and art, I prefer "Black Swan", where women are guided by men, but ultimately for their own perfection. This "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is indeed beautiful in audiovisual aesthetics (I don't like the lines), but it shows a male perspective who currently wants to be provocative. It is more like a genre painting of social realism, and is not commendable in its conception.

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Extended Reading

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.