The shot’s intimacy makes us feel as though we are sharing a part of our humanity with this young face—an emotional window into a story unknown, very real but at the same time very far way.
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His indomitable spirit in the face of danger is somehow foreign to western viewers as a tradition from a distant land, but simultaneously familiar in that it evokes heroes of legend.
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The painting may be in the present for the viewer, but the ethereal charm that Trang endows it with evokes the sense that this is in fact a memory—at first recalled with great clarity, gradually fading into blurriness and finally oblivion.
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Reclining as he observes the sky and the scene spread before him, the man is apparently content to remain alone with nature, uninterrupted by the distraction of daily human life.
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In the end, she is altogether thrilled after reflecting on her life, as if to say it was well worth it. Is that what all of us should ultimately strive for?
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