Big Eyes (2014)

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I think the big eyes children are so familiar. It turns out that it has inspired Blythe dolls and many Japanese manga characters that come after.

Margaret is a very introverted character. She doesn't like her husband, Walter, telling lies to the customers at the club, where he sells their paintings. But when a customer asks who painted the paintings, she does not speak up. Instead, the more sociable Walter steps up and claims that he is the painter. As a result, Margaret has to follow the story and stay at home to paint while Walter would be the salesman / facade, so as to make a living.

Margaret becomes more and more upset as she has to hide the fact from her daughter. She later finds out that Walter is a con man. The paintings of the streets of Paris are not even his own paintings. She realizes that she has never seen him paint.

Margaret is very powerless as she is a divorcee and a single mom. She knows that she holds the truth but she is not brave enough to expose Walter. She only finds the courage after she finds a religion. 

Women tend to have harder times in selling their work in art or writing (as J.K. Rowling once said). It is a triumphant and cathartic moment to see that she out-paint Walter in the court to claim her justice and name back.

To conclude, this is a very inspiring biography of a female painter who rise to success and is recommended to all art-lovers.