A contradictory and lonely genius

Velda 2022-04-09 09:01:08

In the film, Vivian told her female friends that men are not credible. She seems to reject men. Maybe she may not think that it was the fifth year after her death that a young man found her by chance. Mysterious negatives, revealing her legacy to the world. These seemingly contradictory stories are actually more contradictory and mysterious like Vivian's life.

There are indeed too many things in her life that are difficult to explain. Why does this seem to have a good level of photography, but it is the hand of a nanny? Why did this French woman stay unmarried all her life, and later even she wasn't born "French" at all. When the questions and facts were presented in front of them, the interviewees were stunned, and in fact, we, the onlookers, were also stunned. One of the interviewees in the film mentioned her relationship with Vivian, who has never approached her true inner world after knowing each other for nearly 30 years. Maybe, she is that kind of person, that kind of person who is not so open, doesn't like to share her thoughts with the outside world, is a "mysterious" person.

Someone once said that artists are all lonely, but I don't think it's enough. In my opinion, everyone is lonely in their hearts. Maybe over time, more people have to compromise, and those who insist on not wanting to integrate with the world become mavericks. Vivian is one of them, but in fact, there are more people who used to be vivian in this society. Maybe you and I could have become such people. Various social rules and various social causes us to slowly give up our unique attributes. , trying and perhaps painfully integrating into this so-called "society". I think that an astonishing artist like Vivian may only exist in that era, an era when it was not so open and had no social network. In addition to being amazed by her photographic works, people are more curious about a mysterious nanny with multiple "identities". She loves photography, and many people love photography, but she doesn't take photography as a way to show herself or to make a living like other people. On the contrary, I think she is carefully protecting the works she loves. As joan maloof said in the film, she clearly knows that she is an excellent photographer, so it is not because of lack of self-confidence that she does not want people to see it, she also tried to contact the photo studio to exchange her views Photographic works, but these ultimately failed to materialize. So, at the end of the film, her works are exhibited in New York, San Francisco, London, and all over the world, and let many people, including me, get to know the great photographer who took a selfie with a camera in front of the glass window - Vivian Maier.
This may be her best ending.

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