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SPOILERS DOWN THE PATH; THE DISCUSSION BELOW WILL NOT BE COMPREHENSIVE WITHOUT IT.

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Macbeth is a true to the heart literary art where beauty and ugliness collide in one locus. This poetic classic stays true to its stage play aura, enriched by Michael Fassbender's (Macbeth) and Marion Cotillard's (Lady Macbeth) valiant acting skills, grand background score and swampy color palette.

The timelapse of corpses and the opening war's semi-pauses-resumes are noteworthy editing prowess on display! Some terrific camera shot stand out here as well, such as the rays through cathedral. Homicide stratagem during copulation and climax battle are the examples of scenes to hail.

A character is defined mostly by actions, not words. On this note, there are far too many unnecessary dialogues and monologues that do not help develop the personas. Also, one's mortal thoughts boil with wonders:

  • What is the necessity for the protagonist's dramatic outrage to meet a prediction that would eventually roll out on its own course?

  • How could the murder happen so easily with all the king's men around? The crowd being drunk is not a completely convincing reason.

  • Why would the successor evade when his most plausible action is to wake everyone up in furtherance to trap the culprit then and there?

The aspects mentioned above might have been formidable in an ancient play, where performances supersede the need for logic any day, let alone questioning a Shakespeare's work of art on stage. However, when adapted to silver screens for the contemporary times, blemishes like these should be mend to avoid revealing the dubiety of these classic narratives. Staying faithful to the original source material is one thing, but keeping the audiences in mind is another far more crucial thing.

"O full of scorpions, is my mind."