I was watching The Lake House on TV last night and thought this scene was pretty interesting. It’s an emotional take that Sandra Bullock’s character does when she receives a bit of bad news. In this clip you can see her initial reaction (the emotional take) to the news, processing what she’s heard, and then she re-composes herself.
**spoiler warning** (this clip kinda spoils the movie, so consider yourself warned)
Her head rotates down as her eyebrows raise and her jaw drops when she first hears it, that’s the take, her initial reaction. What I find interesting about it is how slow it is when it happens. Then it’s like she processes internally what she’s just heard. She blinks here, her eyebrows actually go up farther too. When she tries to compose herself and deal with the news, you can see it starts with her jaw closing then her lips pressing together and continues to the point where she looks away from the drawing on the wall.
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