The whole "fell first vs fell harder" thing with Jinmao is that it's more like "fell first vs fell faster" in the sense that Maomao continued to hover above the ever-deepening hole like a cartoon character only plummeting the moment she looks down and realizes she's already too far gone
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What does it weigh? Only about ten pounds. It’s like carrying around a cat. In fact, a cat may have turned inside out on itself to make it. Or maybe it was a small dog or a raccoon, I’m not sure.
It would not blow up because the event horizon of a black hole that weighs as much as a cat would be miniscule. No idea how you suspended it in the jar though.
I really appreciate the apothecary diaries for keeping front and center the fact that being adjacent to the nobility spells trouble for Maomao. The ridiculousness of Jinshi's love for her is mostly played for comic effect, but the selfishness of it is always taken very seriously by the narrative; of course Jinshi knows marrying him would be a cage to Maomao more than anything (unless he somehow manages to.. fix that I guess). Maomao's feelings are open to interpretation for reasons she tells us directly (although the amount of emotional growth she shows is quite lovely!), but what is always more important to her is her freedom and how that depends on her socioeconomic status not being compromised by either going too low or too high.
I feel like a lot of series, even ones critical of status dynamics, still see being high-class as inherently desireable over being poor. It's mad nice to have a main character like Maomao be unequivocally like "No this sucks please get it away from me."
The slightly more complicated answer is... Mister Rogers.
Depth of field is the area in front and behind your chosen focus point that remains in focus and then slowly gets blurry as you get farther away.
Shallow depth of field only has a narrow slice of the image in focus and gets blurry super quick. This is caused by a large lens aperture and being close to the subject.
Deep depth of field can extend through the entire picture if your aperture is small and you are super far away.
Usually the depth of field lines up with the image sensor of your camera. So if it is tilted forward, the plane of focus matches.
The stuff outside the green area would be blurry. The edges of the green would be slightly blurry. And the dashed green line would be the sharpest area of the photo.
But the tilt-shift lens allows you to create chaos with your plane of focus. In most cases, you would use this to flatten the depth of field so you can get a 2D plane entirely in focus.
If you were to use a normal lens, the bottom left and top right would be blurry.
But with a tilt-shift lens you can do this.
The green area is taking a little nap on the floor.
However, there is an unintended side effect created by this lens. (The "Scheimpflug intersection" if you want to go down the rabbit hole.) You can choose absolutely wacky planes of focus that create a very narrow depth of field over a geographically large area.
Believe it or not, this is when psychology comes into play.
And possibly Mister Rogers.
Our only reference for such a large area having a shallow depth of field is our memories of miniatures on TV. So Mister Rogers and Thomas the Tank Engine trained our brains to see this effect as... small.
Depth of field shrinks the closer you are to something. And when filming miniatures, you are placing the lens close to the scene. But the scene represents something big in our minds. We buy the effect, but not 100%. That blurriness wouldn't be there at a regular scale. So our subconscious remembers we are watching small things pretending to be big. It just files that away in the back of our mind.
And then when we see something like this...
Our brain is all, "Look at all that tiny shit!"
Without Mister Rogers, our brains may have never made these connections and tilt-shift photography may just make us wonder why everything is all blurry. That connection to past experience is vital for this effect to be convincing.
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