Thursday, February 25, 2016

a tiny question about trivia


There is something that happens in dramas on screen that always strikes me as a visual cliché, but worse than that, as actually untrue. You know when characters are missing someone they love and they pick up a photograph of the loved one and look at it longingly?  Or they find a photo in an album and look at it. Have you noticed that the next thing they do is they touch the photo?

I never touch photographs. Do you? Yes, I might pick up a framed photo of someone I love and look at it. But I don't touch the person pictured in it. I don't touch the image. It's not about marking the photo - because I don't do it if the photo is framed. 

Do you? Does anyone? Tell me I am wrong and then I can stop feeling annoyed every time I see this on screen.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes, I do, sometimes. Mostly to those who aren't here any more. Can't say why...

Sue Hepworth said...

Thank you. I can now cross this off my list of pet peeves.

Anonymous said...

My peeve is watching someone pretending to type - bugs the heck out of me!

Sue Hepworth said...

Haha - any more offers, anyone?

Anonymous said...

For me its musicians who patently cant play the intrument they are supposed to be playing ... Jen