The Best Years of Your Life
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This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedantham. In one of the movie versions of the Oscar Wilde novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the actor Heard Hatfield stares longingly at a painting of himself. The picture shows a young man bursting with health and vitality. As Dorian Gray reflects on how he is going to change with age, while his picture will stay the same, a strange wish passes through his head. Only the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now.
For that I would give everything. There is nothing in the whole world I would not give. I would give my soul for that. In the story, Dorian Gray makes a pact with a devil. The painting starts to age
in his place. The physical degradation of the picture isn't only about the passing years. The picture takes on the corruption of the character's many misdeeds. Meanwhile, Dorian Gray himself stays eternally youthful. Oscar Wilde wrote the story in the late 19th century.
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