This is a still photo taken from MGM/Hulu’s hit television series, The Handmaid’s Tale, Season 3.
Photo theme: Cold.
A statue’s angel wings that frame June appear to signify her strength and beauty, as well as nodding to the character’s growth throughout the past seasons. However, any warm, hope-filled emotions that may arise at the sight of her success are immediately sucked out and spat back onto the floor with a besieging light. It smothers June’s symbolic achievements–washing the life out of her face and repainting with melancholy gloom, reminding the audience of her frigid reality. June’s wings would normally fly her closer to an affectionate, tender sun; instead they are weighed down, grounded by light’s bitter, icy shroud.
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