Why Modern Actors All Sound Like They're Whispering

There's a performance style that's taken over prestige cinema. Quiet, internal, barely-there. And everyone's blamed the actors. Wrong call. The whispering isn't coming from the performance. It's coming from the camera. This is a breakdown of the specific technical shift that changed how actors perform, why sound designers are furious about it, and what three films did differently that nobody gave them credit for.