Why Did Truman Look at the Wedding Photo Again
- #i
Equally Truman looks back at the photograph album, his eyes fall on a moving-picture show of his wedding 24-hour interval with Meryl. Looking closer, he sees that her fingers are crossed which implies that Meryl did not marry Truman truthfully .
from an IMDB synopsis
When watching the moving-picture show, I didn't get why Truman was shocked looking closer at the photo, non until I read this explanation in the synopsis. This is probably non really a language question, but nonetheless, what'southward the deal with this "not marrying truthfully"? Is it like when she finger-crossed, she kind of didn't commit a sin when making wedding vows before God?
Thank you.
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- #2
I suppose it means that she was expressing her disagreement with what she said in her wedding vows by crossing her fingers, Vic. The crossed fingers must have signified "I don't really mean what I am saying."
- #3
Having your fingers crossed when yous hope something invalidates the promise - in the heed of the finger-crosser.
It's the same when y'all tell a lie. If you secretly cross your fingers when speaking, it ways that you didn't mean whatever you said. Over again, this is in the mind of the speaker.
Y'all're right, this isn't a language question, and volition probably get modded abroad. 
- #4
So that was really supposed to redeem her of the sin she was comitting at the momemnt, was my estimate well-nigh the purpose of her doing that right?
- #five
Where practise you pick upward the thought about redemption, Vic? What sin was she committing?
- #6
I was only thinking, why else would she be finger-crossing? Of course she was not truthful by the very fact of acting the marriage out, why should she also reinforce this action by any ritual finger-crossing?
- #vii
I tin't tell you the real reason that she crossed her fingers, but I tin tell y'all that people oft exercise this with no serious statement or purpose in mind.
It would probably make sense for y'all to view what she did as some sort of lighthearted gesture rather than a serious endeavor to deny the truth of her wedding vows or anything like that.
- #viii
Yep I know, I just thought there should have been a serious reason for that in this context, because information technology really gave her away.
Thank you both!
- #9
Meryl is actually an actress named Hannah Gill (played by Laura Linney) . Her wedding ceremony vows were not existent. The matrimony is not real. She probably felt that if she participated in the ceremony without some "protection", she (Hannah Gill, not but Meryl) would exist actually married to him. (At that place was a recent case of two actors who found out the priest in their movie was really a priest and were (humorously) worried that they might actually be married as they said the wedding vows with a real priest.)
- #eleven
The scene is not logical. Why would she cross her fingers during the filming of the photograph? On a wedding twenty-four hours, dozens of photographs are taken. Photos are not taken of her saying "I practise", which is the words she says to ally him. The tradition of "crossing fingers when telling a lie" only applies to secretly crossing your fingers while speaking the lie.
Simply information technology doesn't accept to make sense, in a fictional pic. The photograph with crossed fingers is part of the motion picture plot -- it is one step in Truman'south gradual process of discovering that everything in his life is false.
- #12
She was thinking that when she appeared in court at her bigamy trial (or annullment) she could say "See, I was fifty-fifty crossing my fingers in the photos." in order to corroborate her statement that her fingers were crossed during the vows (as if "crossed fingers" would hold upwards in court).
- #thirteen
Simply like in Back to the Hereafter Two — why was Biff conveying the almanac sticking out of his pocket so that Marty and Doc could later run across it in the photograph in the newspaper? (IYKWIM)
As you said, she's Hannah Gill in existent life, and she would never appear in court for whatever false marriages Meryl Burbank could take had))
- #xiv
Hannah Gill stood up in front of witnesses with Truman (who is not an player) and took wedding vows. Information technology might not be every bit cut-and-dried every bit you remember. It'southward meliorate to be rubber than lamentable and gear up a defense merely in example. Truman might want to claim half of her income as an actress after he finds out.
- #15
She is non legally married to him as Hannah Gill, so there could non be any divorce hearings. Legal papers crush whatsoever wedding ceremony vows. The only thing she would really be guilty of, every bit whatever member of the whole making-show crew, is the big-calibration deception/fraud they all did to him, and for that, he could sue them all with very high odds of success.
- #16
... because she had her fingers crossed. That's the point of the joke.
I didn't realize yous had a law degree in the United states.
Hannah was worried that the marriage might be real. Meryl doesn't take to worry about whether the matrimony is real or not because she'due south not real.
To become back to your original gauge, Meryl cannot commit a sin before God, but Hannah can. Meryl will not suffer whatsoever consequences so Meryl doesn't accept a reason to protect herself. Hannah will suffer the consequences.
Source: https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/did-not-marry-truman-truthfully.3572410/
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