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After this magical moment, the princess's appearances become progressively infrequent and ephemeral, while Isaac becomes increasingly obsessed. His distraction, a source of worry for his landlady, is symbolized by a repeated pair of wide-angle shots that place the lovesick man in the left foreground of the screen, oblivious to the engaged discussions transpiring at the table behind him. When he does encounter the princess's ghost, it's in fleeting moments of frustration, as when she appears behind him, only to disappear when he turns around or to linger over him in bed, reaching out for him as he for her, but remaining just beyond his grasp.
It's significant that Isaac is a man defined in opposition to the times in which he lives. As a photographer, he takes great interest in documenting the work of a group of laborers who till the earth by hand, even though his landlady chides him for wasting his time on people performing an outmoded task since, as she constantly reminds him, machines do these jobs nowadays. Similarly, when a pair of engineers laments the cancellation of a bridge-building project due to the "current economic climate," Isaac evinces little interest in the discussion. Although a young man, he, like Oliveira, clearly belongs to a different era and if he persists in a stubborn romantic fantasy as well as an obsessive dwelling in the anachronistic, so does the movie's director, who is keenly sensitive to both the changing nature of cinema (in which digital filmmaking has largely replaced celluloid) as well as his own impending mortality.
Speaking of his initial encounter with the ghostly Angelica, Isaac remarks, "That strange reality. Perhaps it was just a hallucination, but it was just as real as [waking life]." In the end, the distinction hardly matters, because as Isaac disappears at last with his ghostly beloved, fulfilling once more the romantic consummation that the movies have provided us with for more than a century, we share in his hallucination which we realize at last has been nothing more nor less than the fantasy life recreated every time we sit down in front of the flickering screen of the cinema.
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