Sing Sing

96 **Favourite Films** A life-changing experience, for me. I had preposterously high expectations for this film, and somehow it exceeded them. I was reminded of the great Andrew Scott's masterclass in modernising Shakespearian language when he played Hamlet in 2018. The Irish accent a guide to crafting an entirely unique and profoundly human interpretation of opaque and daunting historical playwriting. It can be so moving to hear the mind of Shakespeare through the lens of a young genius: there's something really beautiful and unspoken about that. It also allows us to, yet again, cherish the value of theatre in a new way. The modern masterpiece 'Sing Sing' reinvents the beauty of theatre through another form of visual art: one that allows for a deep extraction and study of human nature. When a prison inmate recites a Shakespearian soliloquy, I understand, again, why the theatre is unrivalled and non-exsistant in its boundaries. I find this perspective so unbelievably moving, and even to see these guys hold a script makes me see the limitless number of approaches towards acting and performing and crafting. Colman Domingo is a great actor, wow, give me a place in the Guardian's film review section. No, we all know how amazing that bloke is, so I needn't explain that. I think he is actually outshone, in a way, by the other inmates who are played by the real inmates of the prison. These guys have a genuine understanding of exactly how to feel, which gives them incredible insight and scope to provide unimaginably detailed and textured characters. Thank God they didn't fuck it up. This film was immersive, gripping, and transcendental. Meditation.