This film should be said to express the girl's desire for artistic beauty and the painter's rigorous pursuit of art. When the heroine walks onto the stage to show the work scene, the tension between the hostess is to show her cruelty in real life and also to oppose her yearning for art. The host's daughter's framing of the girl is just a child's selfish desire. The painter's feelings for this girl are even simpler. He is just admiring the beauty of this girl and her artistic sense.
This is a Cinderella story, and an era endows it with a different ending from a fairy tale. This is also the realistic connotation of the film, which exposes and criticizes the suppression of people's desires and the insurmountable hierarchy of that era. Among them, pure and secret love, young girl's new soul and beautiful temperament are unforgettable. Perhaps, in the painting "The Girl with Pearl Earrings", Ge Liye is not only the heroine in the painter's mind, but also the sacred goddess image in the painter's mind.
Everything is as pale as starched white cloth. The ambiguous love between the girl and the painter has sublimated. The desire to wear earrings, pearl earrings, eye love, inner desire. Every ear hole is a wound of love, and love ends in your world. This film is not a naked scene, but full of girlish hearts, floating ambiguity and emotional agitation. Beauty lies not only in appearance, but also in repressed emotions, such as flowers blooming in a rigid secular world.