Twist has become like Hamlet or MacBeth

It's gone so far beyond classic, so rote and familiar that everyone is tempted to play around with to make their mark on it. We know the cues so well, we expect things to be done just so and when they are tampered with some of us find it refreshing and original and others are appalled that the director has monkeyed with our old familiar friend. The first time I saw this one I was in the latter camp and thought it inferior and some of the choices peculiar. Perhaps it's the passing of time or just that I was in a different mood but tonight I feel completely at ease with the director's choices. Since I know I can go back to the classic version(s) any time both in book and film form I felt free to go where the director wanted me to with this. I even enjoyed the music, oddly out of place as it seemed at first. By the end it had come to make some sort of non-logical, instinctive sense within the whole of the director's vision.