By nazirullsafry on Skatehive
SYNOPSIS (IMdb) In late 16th-century England, Agnes, a healer sensitive to the world around her, builds a home with William, a local tutor and aspiring playwright. As their lives fracture, they are tested by distance, silence, and grief. REVIEW Yesterday alone there has been two releases of the upcoming superheroes trailer - Supergirl and He-Man. Watching them one after another made me realised something that has been buried inside for so long - the look of mainstream film that has been coming out of the same template and assembly line - urrghhh. Watching Hamnet on a big screen provides me solace out of the surrounding noise that is the social media, where the words spoken and the images projected are becoming borderline pornographic. The knowledge of reality has been totally shaped of what we see and hear from that little device straight out of Phillip K. Dick's 1968 novel - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. The device is called the Empathy Box, which is close to what we have now -