Continuation of my interest in hands within film. This train station (a place of goodbyes) scene in Cinema Paradiso, as he says goodbye to his family members to then never see them for a very long time, in which he knows this – to start his career in becoming a director. The movement of the hands are documented; this attention to detail here shows a feeling of melancholy, tenderness in this bittersweet goodbye. We are able to tell apart the characters from their hands, their age and their relationship to the character. I think it is powerful to portray these things without showing any of the characters faces. The just essence of the goodbye.
