xI was drawn to the original image mostly because I found it rather striking. It gives off a sort of strange, twisted effect--especially with the affinity of the mostly monochromatic parts and how they contrast with the little red on the faces.
I believe that the artist framed the image as he did to better express the sense of depth in the image. The various depth cues--such as the people in the background appearing smaller and smaller as the lines of perspective approach a vanishing point--add to the overall effect of the image. Also, the shot types of the image are interesting. As a whole, it's a Three-Shot, but it's comprised of a Close-Up, a Wide-Shot, and an Extra-Wide-Shot.
My decision to zoom-in where I did when reframeing the image was based off of my desire to see if it would still have the same effect, or a similar one, without the close-up shot. The zoomed-in image lacks a lot of the depth and sense of space that the original contains; instead of being an obvious "deep-space" image, it comes off as much flatter--almost "limited space", but not quite--with one figure standing in the front, and the other slightly receded.
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