I most like Karen (Hepburn) and Joe's (Garner's) scene in which Karen tells Joe to ask THE question he'd refrained from asking her. Karen knows that Joe's thought long and hard about what he's been suspecting (even though, to Joe's character's admirable - yet human - scruples, he doesn't want to believe it and feels himself squalid for even thinking such a thing), yet it's not when Joe asks the question but when Karen feels she KNOWS he's DECIDED to ask the question that her eyes chill: THAT's acting! - THAT's drama.
Also, I most like this scene because after Joe asks the question Hepburn's acting, in voice and eyes, tells us all we need to know about her sense of the unjust world, about how things - how destiny perverted by a juvenile craven lie - simply must play out separately for her and Joe.
Secondly, I like the scene of Martha's confession to Karen of her unrequited "I've never felt this way about anyone else" love for Karen. I like it because I've been with women, and with men, who have lived that same intense moment; and to see and feel the nakedness of another person so intimately is all at once, breathtaking, awe-inspiring, terrible, and glorious. So, then, must Helman have also experienced such intimacy with soul-naked persons, and her talent, skill, and fortitude in writing this scene as tenderly and as powerfully as she wrote it are indeed remarkable.
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