nighthawks edvard hopperIn this Hopper painting, the night birds, not perched but sheltered in The Phillies, a typical American restaurant for night owls, embody a place of silence and oblivion where time seems to stand still. Subtly inspired by Ernest Hemingway's novella The Killers, for the atmosphere, and Van Gogh's Night Caf, for the colour scheme. The melancholy of Opera Seria, the loneliness of human relationships and the cinematographic projections, far removed from