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What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?

--Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2

Within the play, Shakespeare muses on the power of theatre that it can make an audience grieve for someone they've never known. Hamnet proposes that this is exactly what the play Hamlet is doing, and that's visualized beautifully in the film, with the entire audience weeping for and reaching out to the dying character Hamlet, Agnes in the midst of them, while backstage her husband weeps alone--you get a visual of grief so powerful that it can only be felt by a thousand people at once.

This is the most important line in the movie. I'm 100% serious. It tells you everything you need to know about Lex Luthor's character. It shows the audience that, despite being almost omnicognizant from the get-go, Luthor clearly has no fucking idea who Superman is, only what he does.

I've never seen anyone go from All-Knowing Evil to Absolute Fucking Loser so fast. In fifteen words he went from unstoppable criminal powerhouse to flailing manchild moron. He gave his Evil Dictator demonstration and then turned around, dropped his pants and showed his entire ass. He proclaimed his manifesto of unrelenting ego, turned around, slipped on a banana peel and landed on a whoopie cushion.

And he was so mired in his own sense of superiority that he never even knew it.

her enthusiastic "i'm a very nice and bubbly person, i swear! but i love writing angst and major character death :)" nearly took me the fuck out.

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

Aunt, hello. I'm Sang Zhi. You don't have to worry. Duan Jiaxu is a very kind and outstanding person. He treats people well and is very sincere. He excels in his studies and performs well at work. To me, my parents, and everyone, he's a very good person. Although some bad things had happened in the past, he never gave up on himself. Instead, he worked hard and endured everything with a lot of hardship. If only you can see how excellent he is now, I'm sure you must have some regrets and worries too, right? But don't worry. I'll take good care of him. I'll make it up for him and make sure he's happy every day. So, I promise you that as long as I, Sang Zhi, am here, I won't let anyone bully Duan Jiaxu again. He'll have his family in the future. He has me and many others who love him. We all love you. So, you'll never be alone anymore. Okay?