Girl With A Pearl Earring

A soap opera...

The whole athmosphere never felt as dramatic to me when I read the book. ôô On the contrary: I liked it because it was not like all the other semi-historical stories with all their drama and love and vengeance stuff.

does anyone know the song in the very beginning of the video? i've been trying to find it so i can play it on piano, but idk what its called

The movie left out so many important parts. I was very disappointed.

min 1:44 the real Griet looks like smiling and Scarlet looks more unhappy.
I think Griet is much prettier she has something special.

i agree, i didn't like how they portrayed the characters too much. i kind of preferred vermeer over peiter in the book, but the movie wants you to think otherwise. i loved both the movie and the book, though.

now i understand why he ask her to lick her lips its like an image of him kissing griet.

I thought the book was masterful until the end. It seemed completely implausible Griet wouldn't have gone to the house, wouldn't have hit Cornelia, and wouldn't have inherited pearls. Vermeer would instead have left her a favorite brush, or a tub of paint..not the pearls; they had Catherina's oil on them. And going to othe house? she wasn't an employee any more, and Vermeer himself was gone.

So I loved the book until the final chapter, which I thought was really really disappointing.

I agree. The last chapter always bothered me. I understood her marrying Pieter and was interested to see how her life with him was. I can understand why he would leave the pearls because of their significance, but surely there could have been a more suitable gift left behind that didn't have Catherina's aura left all over it. Even the camera obscura would have been more fitting, simply because it was an experience only they shared. A brush or art trinket also would have been more suitable.

I just finished reading the book last night. I watched this movie a long time ago, and liked it very much, so I read the book.