A time and space interlaced book and shadow memory

Clotilde 2022-07-04 19:51:21

In May 2007, I read a short science fiction novel "Portrait of Shi Ni" lying on the table in high school and I will never forget it for a long time. In February 2011, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" brought the content of the novel to the fore. In February 2022, the 1949 fantasy film "Portrait of Jenny" made me realize that it was probably the inspiration for that science fiction novel. In 1920, Modigliani died in a car accident on the eve of his marriage to Jeanne. This experience of understanding is a bit of a time and space disorder, which corresponds to the elements of the story. Take a closer look at the heroine in the 49-year-old film, she really resembles Modigliani's Jenny - a kind of eternal ♾ melancholy beauty

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Portrait of Jennie quotes

  • Mrs. Jekes: I just can't understand a man fiddling away his time just painting things. Of course he did shovel some snow to pay part of last month's rent.

    Mrs. Bunce: Painting things? Women? Women in the...

    Mrs. Jekes: Mrs. Bunce, we agreed that he was a gentleman and gentleman just don't paint "women in the... "

    Mrs. Bunce: [flustered] No, of course not.

  • Narrator in prologue: Since time began man has looked into the awesome reaches of infinity and asked the eternal question: What is time? What is life? What is space? What is death? Through a hundred civilizations, philosophers and scientists have come together with answers, but the bewilderment remains... Science tells us that nothing ever dies but only changes, that time itself does not pass but curves around us, and that the past and the future are together at our side for ever. Out of the shadows of knowledge, and out of a painting that hung on a museum wall, comes our story, the truth of which lies not on our screen but in your hearts.