They fall into their roles as the film
progresses, and particularly as it
accelerates in its third act - Hanks displaying a dogged determination, Streep shining in a feminist transformation as her formerly meek character stops deferring to the wills of male «advisers» and begins to
truly assert herself.
I like to call it «Prime Time» that golden and magical moment for both teacher and student to really work in harmony and
truly accelerate learning, it's a simple formula, however the temptation can be to assume that once diagnosed,
progress will be made by default, this is most certainly not the case, hence the importance of «Prime Time»: