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Day 4,340—5 Runs until the Thunder Kiss 100 and the Hamnet Review—

          I forgot I was planning to write about Hamnet yesterday. It wasn’t intentional. I  found other things to write about. I am going to start writing about the movie now, so spoiler warning. I wasn’t blown away by Hamnet until the last 20 minutes, when the play starts. This scene pulled everything together in the movie, and it was also enthralling, compelling, and intriguing. I was impressed with the actress who played Agnes from the start, but the actor who played Will didn’t measure-up until scenes from the play. Part of me just wondered if I was just so impressed with the play Hamlet in general, and maybe I need to revisit the work, but it was more than that. It took some classic scenes from Hamlet and gave them this layered purpose. In many ways, I felt that through the play, the author had cheated death and given his son life again. I know that sounds hyperbolic, but it was a triumph of the power of art.         The rest of th...

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