Hamnet

Will: Is it true, you know everything about a person, by touching them here? [Touches Agnes's hand] Agnes: Not everything.

Hamnet (film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Bartholomew: To live with our hearts open. Agnes, Bartholomew: To shut it not in the dark but to turn it to the sun.

Hamnet (film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Will: Do you know the story of Orpheus and Eurydice? Orpheus is a man of music. He has this exquisite voice. His playing of the kithara, which is a... is-is a harp-like lyre, is so divine, birds, the... the beasts, e-even the stones and the trees, they all moved to the rhythm of his music. Now, Orpheus falls in love with this beautiful nymph, Eurydice. Soon after their marriage, Eurydice's bitten by a viper and poison courses through her body, and she's killed. And Orpheus, filled with grief, journeys to the underworld to take her back. He charms this three-headed dog, Cerberus. He beguiles Hades until finally... he's allowed to take his love back with him to the world of the living but... under one condition. Agnes: What is it? Will: She must follow behind him, and he must not turn around to look at her. Now, as they begin their ascent, Orpheus can't hear her footsteps, so he listens... and listens and listens and listens. But all he can hear is the sound of his heartbeat. And the res

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