Render them both alive and moving

We are alive and moving in this film. Porterfield has taken restraint and asked us to work a little harder I feel. Hamilton is just as much happening as a drama outside our bodies on the screen as it is inside. It makes sense to hear Porterfield talk about images in relation to each other and that he is interested in seeing our stories as much as this story. I can't describe how emotional I felt at points in this film.
I'll talk about one part that was especially moving. The scene that took place in Joe's bed. The audience is placed behind the television that sits at the end of the single bed that he and his girlfriend/father of her child share for the night. We are only given audio clues from a black room and then the scene opens when the light from the television turns on. It's the middle of the night and Joe wakes up to play video games while his girlfriend sleeps. Tomorrow she will leave for a long trip. I don't know what it was, but I could just feel the disappointment and uncertainty between the two and it was done with no dialogue. The images and actors carried this drama with no dialogue and that I felt did a couple of things: to clue the audience into each of the characters, and to let the audience make up how they felt...to let them imagine how it must have felt in the characters position and situation. The scene showed many struggles in one package (time, love, responsibility, class, age.)
I enjoyed how much I was able to wonder and sit on each character in their life in those two days. I enjoyed the "work," and enjoyed the payoff.