One of Stewart's best perfomances

I keep reading statements like this, that Kristen Stewart is incapable of expressing emotions and that is why is perfect to play Nia. Personally, I find it amusing. In her interviews she is all about emotions, she is pretty honest, raw, alive and there is so much to read from her facial expressions and eyes. You just need to look. Emotions like irritation, anger, shame, intimidation, attraction etc., which people often try to hide from the media are all over her face and body language. I think she is perfect for acting, because it is easy to see what she feels. On top of this quality, her principal is to be natural, truthful, which i think is fundamental for acting.

What concerns her performance in Equals, Kristen Stewart showed in my opinion so many emotions. The culmination for me was the nock on the door. At this moment and what followed Kristen's face showed so many escalated emotions - pain, desperation, love, craziness, anger, strength and weakness, all at the same time. I can not even imagine how many feelings she had to recall from her own experience and relieve in this very moment to be able to show all of them on her face in one second. That is what i call performance and good acting, being natural and being able to feel and show so much. The impact of this scene on me was tremendous. I definitely had goosebumps going through my whole body. And about the other moments in Equals, I think it is a challenge to play somebody who is supposed to feel so much and yet not be allowed to show. It is a state where you conceal, are afraid, are stressed, but yet so in love. There are feelings to show, it is more complex, and I think that playing such moments goes way beyond staying still and not showing any feelings. For me she and Nicholas Hoult did a superb job portraying these feelings. I could totally observe that they feel a lot and at the same time feel their struggle in hiding it.

wow i haven't heard that before

If you had seen the film you'd know that she, as opposed to other characters in that universe, does feel and express emotions. Her performance was beautiful and deeply moving, not a lot of actors can portray those intense emotions the character felt in this film.

"Incapable of expressing emotions" is code for "doesn't smile enough on demand". It's only ever applied to women.

she's incapable of expressing emotions.

interesting point of view. I agree.

She seems to be getting better of late. I do find her to be a one-trick pony...put her in something that requires playing an actual character and she stumbles, as she did in her cringe worthy attempt at playing Chekhov's Masha in in the playhouse scene of "Still Alice" (although I thought she was quite good in the rest of the movie...playing herself).

This movie is okay...certainly not particularly memorable. The most exciting part was realizing that the familiar face was Nickolas Hoult, who I loved in "About a Boy".



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I've been anti Stewart for awhile, sitting through twilight movies and the snow white snoozefest, but she's fantastic in this!!

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