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you’re able to feel what the other person is feeling.
Elizabeth is still a soldier for Mother Russia.
This sequence is all the more beautiful for being understated, in performance as well as filmmaking.
The actors simply do whatever their characters would do in that situation, and the camera watches them.
Theres a deep feeling of unease and sadness coursing throughout, but it remains mysterious because its unstated.
What will the future look like?
How will its shape be decided?
If the characters have to pick sides in an ideological or emotional conflict, which will they choose?
The show is filled with characters who are defined by their willingness or inability to change.
(Surprisingly, to some, he didnt want it to be one of confrontation and belligerence.)
Philip and Elizabeth seem positioned for their own battle of ideas.
Its obvious that some part of Elizabeth wants to get out, and get Paige out too.
Its easy to see things as black and white, she tells Paige.
But the world is complicated.
And the sooner you get this, the better off youll be.
But whether she can overcome a lifetime of conditioning and actually change is an open question.
There was a time when I would have considered that unthinkable.
But I was a high-school senior in 1987.
It seemed like the Cold War would never end.
ABC dropped tens of millions of dollars on the mini-seriesAmerika, about the USSR taking over the U.S. mainland.
No union is guaranteed to be permanent.
Till death do us part, the marriage vows say.
The death could be physical, philosophical, or emotional, but the specter remains ever present.
