Hamnet

This is one of the saddest movies I have ever seen. RANDOM THOUGHTS WHILE WATCHING (both movie and life): -The unexplained darkness beneath the tree / through the door - - - it was so sinister I felt it in my chest -I'm taking note of a sequence of two back-to-back scenes. Scene 1 establishes a feeling of fear ("it's here") and the scariest 4th wall break I've ever seen. Scene 2 coasts that fear into guttural sadness. Might be the most effectively devastating thing I've ever watched in a movie. -The man of ambition treats not work as secondary but life/family as secondary. Feeling the need to justify his existence not by being a great husband but by being a great artist, pouring himself out onto the stage, the world gets what his family misses out on. He may think by using them in the story he is including them but he is not truly. The greatest play ever written is simply an insult to the one who lived it but was willingly removed from its process of existence. In the end she responds to the truth within what her husband has made, because she has a good heart and lets the art play out and move her. But at first she reacts in offense. To us this is the backstory of the greatest playwright ever. To his family though, this is not the ideal timeline. Grief together would have been a more peaceful grief. Grieving by the process of creation is an emptier kind of grief, yet yields a product of great importance. What to make of this? -Showed quite a bit of actual Hamlet which I didn't think they were going to do but I was very pleased by. It elevated the play even higher in a way I didn't think was possible. -Using the Max Richter song is cheating if you're trying to make audience emotional. It's too effective -The last moment of the film might be the most devastating. And then the lights come on right away and everyone's still crying. Not cool man, not cool