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Aric 2022-03-21 09:02:41
I really can't watch the second half of this movie. Portia is not even beautiful and has no relationship with the word beauty. As for the content of the plot, the emotional meaning of this film is very different from Shakespeare's original book. I think the film is laughing at the pitiful plight of the Jews, the Jewish self-respect and revenge, and as for the Christians, I don't see their innocence and nobility and their ridiculous love. It just makes me feel the frivolity of men and women in it, true love, loyalty, and nothing worth watching. I mentioned that the costumes are very successful and gorgeous, and the sense of the times is in line with the positioning of the characters in the play. The screenwriter does not know what to eat. This film is a rhetorical copy of the original book. This film is a mockery of Judaism, which slanders Christ.
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Roxane 2022-03-26 09:01:10
3 stars are all for Sherlock and Al Pacino who played Sherlock, the others are worthless...I like Sherlock when I read the original, can't hurt...
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Alan 2022-04-23 07:03:31
The hatred between Christians and Jews in Venice in 1596 was so deep. Portia had a peculiar smell, oddly with her two yellow eyebrows. What a man swears to a woman to protect to the death is easily given away. The character of Antonio is inconsistent (he should always be proud, why begging?) so that he loses his independent personality and fails to shape.
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Bassanio: [confirming her love to him] Like one of two contending in a prize That thinks he has done well in people's eyes Hearing applause and universal shout Giddy in spirit, still gazing in a doubt As doubtful whether what I see be true Until confirmed, signed, ratified... by you .
Portia: You see me, lord Bassanio, where I stand, such as I am. Though for myself alone I would not be ambitious in my wish to wish myself much better, yet for you, I would be treble twenty times myself. A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times more rich, that only to stand high in your account, I might in virtues, beauties, livings, friends, exceed account. But the full sum of me is sum of something which, to term in gross, is an unlessoned girl, unschooled, unpractised. Happy in this, she is not yet so old that she may learn. Happier than this, she is not bred so dull that she may learn. Happiest of all, is that her gentle spirit commits itself to yours to be directed as by her governor, her lord, her king. This house, these servants, and this same myself are yours .
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Portia: [disguised as Balthasar] Do you confess the bond?
Antonio: I do.
Portia: Then must the Jew be merciful.
Shylock: On what compulsion must I? Tell me that.
Portia: The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed - it blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'Tis mightiest in the mighty. It becomes the throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, the attribute to awe and majesty wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings. But mercy is above this sceptred sway. It is enthroned in the heart of kings. It is an attribute to God himself and earthly power doth then show likest God's when mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, though justice be your plea, consider this. That in the course of justice, none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much to mitigate the justice of your plea.