Macbeth Movie Download

9 / 10

It’s a Marvelous and Radical Piece of Shakespeare
If I were to trying to get someone interested in Shakespeare, it would be Roman Polansiki’s version of Macbeth that I would use. Not just because of the violence, but because Polanski stepped away from the stage and brought us a unique interpretation, staying true to the original. The language is there, spit out with the precision we are used to. Lady Macbeth is no harridan, as she is often shown to be, but an attractive redhead with ambitions beyond those of her husband’s. Peter Finch works his role well until he is in over his head and sleep is gone. If one is conversant with the play, the ending has some unique interpretation involving the witches (what great witches; the apotheosis of ugliness and wickedness and double-talk). I won’t spoil that ending. The drama plays out. The battle scenes are much more violent than we are used to. They should be. People are trying to kill each other. This takes every effort the body can muster, or your head will be stuck on that pole rather than your adversary. I first saw this in grad school and we had a superb discussion in my Shakespeare II class. This is the shortest of Shakespeare’s plays and so it fits well within the time frame of a conventional movie and so the play needs almost no cutting. I wanted the “Tomorrow and tomorrow” speech to be done a little more dramatically after the death of Lady Macbeth, but it’s OK. Be sure to see this film if you can. You won’t be disappointed.Read More