Actors underestimate how hard it is to play shock and discovery realistically. Julia Roberts makes everything matter by committing at a level that is rooted in real human cognition. In this moment, she does not perform one clean reaction. She lets the collision of terror, relief, disbelief, hope, and maternal instinct hit her all at once, and the camera captures every micro shift. Neuroscience shows that shock activates multiple neural systems at the same time. The brain generates rapid predicti