RE: When I Was A Photographer - A Brief Passing Of Time
The hoody and the soft focus appear to shield Molly against the bright lights of the big city behind.
Her wistful sideways glance, coupled with the warm lighting, suggest a romantic youthful innocence about her character that she seeks to disguise by dressing tough.
A film with this kind of character would typically involve her youthful naïveté being consumed by the big city behind her, with her emerging older and wiser at the end.
It could be a social realist thriller, like "Dirty Pretty Things," where she teams up with down and out characters to avoid violent criminals, or, it could be a fantasy-realistic-romance hybrid, like Jean Vigo's legendary L'Atalante, in which Molly hitches up with an older man, only for them to fall out because of her youthful rebelliousness, after which they both regret their impulsive decisions and come back together at the end of the movie.
In fact, Molly reminds me of Dita Parlo's impulsive Juliette in L'Atalante, kind of a modern cyber-hacker version of Juliette. :)
Beautifully broken down! It's like you have articulated my wistful, unformed thoughts; indeed when you talk of the hoody and soft focus shielding her, you encapsulate the vulnerability that Molly exudes in the picture.
Beautiful words sir, I can see why you're a reviewer! :-D
Cryptogee
Yeah..beautifully reviewed...
Pardon me @cryptogee, but @rodneysreviews outshines you on this one...
You are the creator of this photograph and his is the perfect curator of it...
I am not even going to make a try at reviewing, because best review is already here.
Tell me about it! His words are sheer poetry :-)
Cg