"I have been writing or looking at the Shakespearean archetypal casting of this work as if it's a narrative.
In a more subtle casting of this usual explanation, Pfaelzer portrays it as an act of projection.
The casting of this part is one of the most touching and least suspenseful moments in the film, thanks to Jason Tam's tour de force audition.
The unrealistic casting of this inert, horribly pristine film is the trick: the appeal to the audience is that these two glamorous stars play an ordinary couple and suffer the calamities that do in fact happen to ordinary people.
He's young and he has the looks that could make him a leading man (very far from always the case in the casting of this role) and he's adorable in his fresh-faced keenness.
To see as an entering graduate student another casting of this sculpture ensconced in the courtyard of Philosophy Hall created an immediate link between my two worlds that continues to be meaningful today, because I stayed in New York.
