Beautiful Things
...imarily on the conversation at hand. This specific camera angle helps the audience focus only on the two characters rather than the backgrounds. The lighting in this scene is purely natural sunlight that streams through the glass block windows. The dim lighting offsets the bright colors in the room. Carrie and Barkley are both wearing bright colors that match their background (they are in front of giant paint-covered canvases). The major colors that stand out are blue and yellow. These are also the colors of Carrie and Barkley's shirts, respectively. The two characters, when shown both indivdually and together, almost blend in with their background. The colors and the lighting combined create a focal point for the audience, because this conversation is the foundation for much of the episode. Barkley continues to talk, and the audience finds out that he, along with many other modelizers, view models as "things". He actually illustrates this point when he shows Carrie his "art", the pornographic videotapes that show what Barkley does once he gets these beautiful women. He refers to these videotapes as his "real art", because he thinks beauty deserves to be documented. Barkley doesn't think of these women (his art) as people, he sees them as beautiful objects. He believes he needs physical proof that captures his contact with the "things" on film. After seeing Barkley's "art", Carrie begins to refer to the models as "things" also. She says that Barkley had "slept with half the perfume ads in Vogue". By referring to these models as "ads", it appears that Carrie also views the models as objects. After the conversation shifts to the pornographic videos, the lighting shifts with it. Earlier in the scene, Carrie was bathed in natural light and surrounded by bright colors. This...