At the beginning of 2015, I watched this movie in an extremely bad state of mind (about half of it): I had a big fight with my family at night, I was sitting on the sofa crying, and I just changed the channel just to play "Sarah". Weng Qing Shi", and then I started to read with a piece of paper. At that time, I didn't know anyone except Shakespeare, the male lead, and I was confused to see the male lead quarreling with people in the theater. At this time, a tall man suddenly stood at the entrance of the theater, dressed in unusually gorgeous clothes, very majestic while walking and reading lines, watching Shakespeare, pacing slowly to the middle of the stage, and then turning around and saying, "I am Henry V.".
I was completely stunned at this part, my breath stopped, and my mind was full of "What the hell is the king here? Are you rude?", completely unaware that the queen was on the throne at the time. Suddenly he laughed, and I realized, oh, this is the line of "Henry V", he is acting, this actor is playing an "actor", performing a "performance".
I don't know if it has something to do with the mental state at the time, but this scene is the first time I feel the charm of the performance/actor. Actors are supposed to have that kind of magic that makes people believe that, even for a little while, it's enough to satisfy.
ps. Long after the release of BvS in 2016, I swiped Weibo and saw someone mentioning this film, and I only knew that this role was played by Ben Affleck [Erha].
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