After watching Polanski's version of Macbeth tonight, I've seen three versions of the Macbeth movie (Orson Welles version and Akira Kurosawa's Spider Nest). Subjective feeling: This is the best Macbeth movie I've seen. The other two versions are better than this one, but the overall impression is still the most engaging. From a story perspective: This edition has the most detail, and Macbeth's emotional shifts from start to finish have plenty of room for understanding and empathy. Although the story of Macbeth is already familiar, but every time I watch it, I can really be attracted to it and I will not feel too boring. Shakespeare is still a cow. Its plot is not so intense, and it will not be like the plot rules summed up by many commercial films today. Each plot seems to be tied to that question and theme, and one event leads to the next immediately, but it is still integrated. Thinking: Macbeth's story is a typical fable about self-fulfillment. Whether you cater to it or resist, will bring you closer to the fate of tragedy. The fable that has been proven credible, on the one hand, has become an armor that brings oneself courage and confidence, but it has also become a sharp blade stabbing itself after being "cracked". No one thinks they are bad people, but why is it always "the villain dies by talking too much", doing bad things will bring backlash, forming "cognitive dissonance", and one day it will turn into a monster. From the film itself: "The essence of the film is the restoration of the material world." In the three editions, it is the best restored, and the scenes of costumes and props are the closest to the real situation in Scotland in the Middle Ages. One thing I didn't know before that surprised me was that at that time, except for a few nobles, most people slept on the straw piles, and there were no quilts. | The part about hallucinations and nightmares in the film is amazing, it really scares me, and the weird parts like "Witch's Gathering" are very infectious. This is Polanski's handiwork, and there are scenes like this in many of his other films. | The smoothness of the movement of the lens is also amazing. The rise and fall of most of the lenses and the movement trajectory are almost all designed very delicately. | The last beheading scene left me stunned. I dare say that Jiang Wen must have learned from his "The Devil Has Come". A little bit about the director's background: this film was released in 1971, and the previous "Rosemary's Baby" was released in 1968. In the middle of the two films, that is, in 1969, there was a famous Hollywood female star massacre. In this case, the female star was brutally killed at home by fanatics of the cult organization "Manson Family", and the one who was killed was the director Polanski's wife. So when I watched it, I not only wanted to find some clues in the film, but also wondered whether there were any accusations from the director behind the tragic death scenes in the film, and whether the angry words McDoffer made when he learned that his wife and son were killed also represented The voice of the director?
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