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The actor sends up his own preening aloofness, and he has never been more emotionally exposed than when it dawns on him that his smug façade has been literally penetrated.
That he isn't supposed to be there dawns on him about the time the masks turn his way and the conversation stops.
Elena barely knows what she is doing when she buys a ticket to see her father in Miami, though then it dawns on her that she wants to persuade him of something that he, like Elena herself, seems to be having trouble absorbing: that her mother--his ex-wife--is now dead.
It dawns on us that she's heading into something completely unknown, something she can't even fully perceive.
The only discordant note was sounded by the two hard-line Protestant Cabinet members, who boycotted the meeting and held a press conference ominously urging people not to "get carried away about new dawns and new days having arrived in Northern Ireland."