TESLA 2020 Movie Review – Ethan Hawke, Eve Hewson, Eli A. Smith

„One of the most difficult things to convey onscreen is human thought, particularly what happens when an epiphany washes over us. We do, of course, have an accepted shorthand for these moments in animation. Most commonly depicted by the image of a lightbulb going off above a character’s head, we watch as their eyes widen, perhaps a finger is raised, and then they run to go put their ideas into motion. Taken together, these actions are easily understood; we know we’ve witnessed intellectual serendipity.

And while we’ve all seen actors attempt to externalize the internal onscreen – usually with the camera closing in on their faces before pulling back to see them start working on a new, grand opus – there are only a precious few actors who we routinely believe we are seeing think in character. It’s a short list, to be sure, but one man who is definitely on it is Ethan Hawke.” Source: reviews.filmintuition.com