Macbeth

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Without going into too much detail of what the film entails (as near enough everyone knows the tale of Macbeth) I will talk briefly of the performance. I couldn’t understand the Shakespearian language but from the stunning performance of the actors I got a great feeling of what the words meant. This I think is a beautiful metaphor of how we don’t need to be able to speak the same language or appreciate the same things, believe in the same beliefs. We can, through art convey all sorts of emotion and just sit back to enjoy what is going on around us. Michael Fastbender gave one of the best performances of his life in my opinion. The raw emotion he put across the film, the connection he had to all other characters and the pure energy he put into the role was outstanding, he himself is an artist. 

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The film was somewhat ruined for me with a woman on our row shining her phones light into our faces but even with this I was still able to enter back into the world on the screen, I felt part of it and when me and my friends sat at the end we had to just watch as the credits rolled by because we all agreed on the beauty we had seen. 

Talking more about the cinematography of the film one scene stood out to me in particular; The final battle scene. Across the entire set there must have been so much orange smoke it filled the screen and the battlefield. A sort of poem, like any of Shakespeare’s writing ensued in the middle of the scene between Macbeth and Macduff as a sea of emotions crashed into the scene. All the way through this brutal and feeling filled act this orange smoke stays this meant only a silhouette of the characters could be seen. Overtime I saw Macbeth’s dark orange shadow break through the lighter screen I gained more and more inspiration to create some sort of poster or artwork to show off the film. If I can find a screen shot I will post it below and try to come back and add the artwork I saw when watching the film.

All together the film I think showed off the beauty of Shakespeare’s work but also shows off the beauty of art in almost all it’s forms, visual, audible and the general feeling of that it causes.

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