I have suckled a baby, and I know how sweet it is to love the baby at my breast. But even as the baby was smiling up at me, I would have plucked my nipple out of its mouth and smashed its brains out against a wall if I had sworn to do that the same way you have sworn to do this.
Lady Macbeth is often called the anti-mother. By asking the spirits to unsex her, she is killing the woman inside her in order to achieve her ambition. In this new 'version', every word she may say on the subject of children now clashes with the vision the writers have for her (a mother who never recovered from the loss of a child, sees him in her final moments of life and basically shows any signs of ambition in a couple scenes only).
It was like the writers thought they should give it extra 'depth' to the characters (and believe it or not, some critics backed them on this!) and it may have somehow been interesting if no one was really evil in this version, nor the mortal characters, nor the witches (looking at the dying Macbeth with sorrow).. no one. This way, no one's action really make sense, nor does the plot.
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PoppyTransfusion
9 years ago
if no one was really evil in this version
That's because the Weinsteins are the producers and this is intended for a mass (read dumb) audience. It would not be possible to have a woman plotting to murder children, denying her sex and wishing to make herself monstrous. Such things do not have in the unthinking world.
A bird sings and the mountain's silence deepens.
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