If you want to see really good screen acting, just watch the last couple of minutes of 'The Long Good Friday' and watch Hoskins go through a dozen emotions just using his massive face and expressive eyes. Subtle, believable, you can read his frantic jumble of thoughts so well that it doesn't need anything apart from a big close up - the moving picture that says a thousand words. The car journey from hell - to hell.
I was oddly reminded of this by the scene in Take Me High where Cliff is driving up to Brum; emoting and internal-dialoguing away. But of course Cliff's is a "bit" worse than this.
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