- An actor while preparing for a role speaks with the history and statues around him in the ancient heart of Rome. A mix of sounds, voices, and daily and preparatory experiences lead him to achieving his goal, his role.
- Our protagonists finds himself in the everyday regular habits of work and study, as a restaurant keeper and English student. As an actor looking for work, his life is in a different place and prospect. He roams the streets of Rome, along the marble and statues that question and speak to him. As if doctored voices of grandfathers and grandmothers of old, the statues comment and communicate as he learns his part and role for Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Our protagonist, slowly detaches from his pragmatic world into what is an esoteric and ephemeral one of words and reflections. At times doubtful, at times smiling, our protagonist lingers on. The shots are long and made of narrative voice over with long cuts and documentary like frames. The pace is slow and tense though the voices are full. As our protagonist continues to study lines and assess his role, his agent calls with news and updates, his English teacher aids with pronunciation. As the statues of the city foreshadow his success, he learns that he got the role he wanted and that his next adventure begins. A call to perform leaves the sense of satisfaction as we take off from beyond the walls of the city in a final mesh of a big open sky, full of opportunity and light. As a play on words and excerpts of Lord Byron's poems prevail, Shakespeare's work is always more inward, and the character takes on his role directly. Shot in black and white, so as to add to a documentary like feel of old, the very commentary is in contrast with the modern hustle surrounding it, and the shots and edits are long and slow as to object to an updated flash of events.
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