Anyone else think that in the “neutral” photo, the actors look like they’re about to kiss? No, really. I blame an overexposure to pop culture. That particula

Anyone else think that in the “neutral” photo, the actors look like they’re about to kiss? No, really. I blame an overexposure to pop culture. That particular framing, with the characters staring into each other’s eyes, combined with the sense of stillness implied by a photo, to me feels reminiscent of a certain overused stock scene in film… And there’s reason I thought of film. In a real-life photo, people are usually either looking at the camera (if they’re aware of the photo) or farther away (if they’re not). You wouldn’t usually see that kind of perfectly framed side shot. So I’m not sure all the children were really “misreading” the emotion in the neutral photo. (Unless, of course, it’s just me who’s misreading…)