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Yin and Yang: Ennis and Jack
serious crayons:
Yay! Thank you again, Penth!
What is with just the one cherry? Maybe the cake is like a chocolate-chip cookie, with cherries scattered throughout, and there just happens to be only one showing at the point where it is sliced? For that matter, who makes cherry cake? Or if they did, wouldn't they just have an overall cherry-flavored one, maybe with some whole cherries on top as decoration, rather than a cherry-studded one?
Oh well, this is a topic for another thread. It doesn't have anything to do with yin and yang. ... Unless ... that one cherry, on the white half of the cake, with the other half dark, is supposed to be ...
No. Can't be.
It probably just represents the one tiny bit of love in the otherwise bleak white household.
Meryl:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on June 02, 2006, 08:22:35 am ---Oh well, this is a topic for another thread. It doesn't have anything to do with yin and yang. ... Unless ... that one cherry, on the white half of the cake, with the other half dark, is supposed to be ...
No. Can't be.
It probably just represents the one tiny bit of love in the otherwise bleak white household.
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*Looks at picture again*
Good Lord, it IS a tiny ying/yang, rectangular like the barn door image, and lacking a corresponding dot on one side! Are we insane to be noticing these things? ::) ;D
I like your interpretation, though, Katherine...a little bit of heart's warmth in a cold, bare place. :(
starboardlight:
--- Quote from: meryl on June 02, 2006, 01:27:52 pm ---*Looks at picture again*
Good Lord, it IS a tiny ying/yang, rectangular like the barn door image, and lacking a corresponding dot on one side! Are we insane to be noticing these things? ::) ;D
I like your interpretation, though, Katherine...a little bit of heart's warmth in a cold, bare place. :(
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at this point in the film, the yin is without his other half. There is no yang. The circle is incomplete now.
I can't help thinking that the cake was purposefully done that way. In a film, there'd be a prop master that saw to that detail. Would any person cutting the cake thought it'd look weird with only one cherry showing?
Meryl:
--- Quote from: starboardlight on June 03, 2006, 11:56:22 am ---I can't help thinking that the cake was purposefully done that way. In a film, there'd be a prop master that saw to that detail. Would any person cutting the cake thought it'd look weird with only one cherry showing?
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I think you're probably right, starboard. It's a detail that had to be thought out. Nothing, nothing is too small a detail to leave unnoticed in this amazing film. 8)
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: starboardlight on June 03, 2006, 11:56:22 am ---at this point in the film, the yin is without his other half. There is no yang. The circle is incomplete now.
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This is a good point. The cake reminded me of the yin-yang symbol, too. But I thought it can't be, because it's only one half of it. But you're completely right: the other half is gone. Sad again.
Sometimes I ask myself, whether we are beginning to see ghosts, respectively symbols where there aren't any. On the other side, this cake is unorthodox. And is does look like one half of yin/yang.
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