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miannedomusings · 2 years

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SUNMI - Heart Burn

I want to write a whole essay for this video (this would be the 3rd Sunmi video in that particular queue), but since it seems unlikely I’ll follow through with that any time soon I just need to point out one teensy little detail in this video that is GLORIOUS.

This is a screenshot from the MV at 0:43. As best as I can tell, the painting in the background leaning in front of the bookshelf is Caravaggio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes. But it has been cropped to reduce it to a simple portrait of a woman.

The full piece depicts the climax of the biblical story of Judith, who uses her charm to seduce and behead a general (there’s more to it than that, but for right now that is enough).

So in the background of this video, where beautiful Sunmi charms and kills numerous people, there is a small image which dangerously reduces a strong and deadly woman to a pretty face...

Though that mangled statue in front of it does give you a hint

Full original painting below the cut. warning: it’s violent

#tw blood #tw violence #there so much in this video #oh my freakin god #the details are great #...this detail is a little dependant on my eyesight but I'm PRETTY SURE #sunmi #heart burn #ramblings #my.ramblings #my.sunmi #I'm also pretty sure that there are some other paintings at the start of the video depicting mary with baby jesus #but i can't tell which paintings they are at a glance #that would add an interesting component #the 'ideal' woman she presents herself as vs the deadly being she is maybe #or maybe one is the reaction to the expectation of the other #anywho

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