Movie Notes: Macbeth (2016)
Every scene and line delivered by Fassbender and Cotillard in this cinema adaptation of Shakespeare's work are poetic and entrancing.
Michael Fassbender (Macbeth) and Marion Cotillard (Lady Macbeth) portrays the title lead roles in the Shakespeare’s work, Macbeth. It is about a Warrior Lord and his rise to power and corruption by it.
Honestly, I didn’t even know the story of Macbeth when I watched it. The main reason why I watched this movie was because of Marion Cotillard. I started liking her after seeing her amazing performance in the movie The Immigrant with Joaquin Phoenix. Cotillard delivered excellently and Fassbender was amazing in their performance.
Fassbender portrayed a memorable Macbeth, as a fragmented, ambitious and a cowardice king blinded by his own ambition. You will feel ambivalent whether to admire his ambitions and greatness as a warrior or despise his cowardice and desperation as a king clinging to power. As I expected, Cotillard did the same with Lady Macbeth, as a shrewd and manipulative wife and later on her grieving realization of his fault as she was blinded by ambition.
I liked the message of the movie especially its portrayal of how a great warrior or anyone for that matter can be easily corrupted by excessive ambition and power. Macbeth, in his own right, has the qualities and attributes to be a great king. However, his means of getting power (by murdering the current king) and his cling to power has caused his downfall into a cowardice mad king.
Macbeth is a thrill to the senses. It has the elements of a memorable epic film with its amazing imagery and poetic script. This movie is very appealing to the eyes with its imagery. The gritty, dark and sepia tones of this movie add to the mood that each scene conveys.
However, this movie is not for the mainstream. It can be a bore to some because it is quite a long narrative. Without the subtitles, the Scottish English used in the script is very hard to understand sometimes.
4/5 - Amazing Movie
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