What's the point of Cameron's museum scene with the girl in the painting in Ferr!
Question:
What's the point of Cameron's museum scene with the girl in the painting in Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
Answers:
Cameron is coming to the realization that he is letting other people control his life, particularly his father. It is in the Art Institute of Chicago (where the painting is), that Cameron decides he's going to stop being afraid of his father and others in authority. For the first time, he's in control of his own life, and doesn't have to hide behind excuses like being sick all the time. It's his epiphany moment, and although it's put on hold when they realize that the spedometer on his dad's Porsche doesn't roll backwards, it's the beginning of Cameron's coming of age.
(This is really ironic because the actor who played Cameron, Alan Ruck, was actually 29 years old when they released the movie).