fromThe New Yorker
2 days agoPremeditated
Tipped for the Oscars, "Hamnet" was released on November 26th. When the movie showed at film festivals, the director, Chloé Zhao, invited the audience to join her in an act of collective meditation before the screening. Among her instructions: "Close your eyes," "Feel your own weight," "Take deep breaths with sound," "Sigh out loud," and "Gently say to yourself, 'This is my heart. These are our hearts.' " Would this ritual not have improved the viewing experience of many earlier films?
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