Macbeth Review Plot: A man driven mad in the pursuit of power. A women pushed to suicide by guilt. Three witches predicting the rise and fall of a noble family. Review: Macbeth is paint on canvas, raw edges still showing. Each brushstroke of vivid colour can be traced through the muddied landscapes. It shows you no mercy and will feeling emotionally drained as if this were the first time you heard the word Macbeth, because suddenly no version of Shakespeare’s most bloody play will ever live up to what you have just seen. Blood curdling scenes of brutality are lead wonderfully by Michael Fassbender’s Macbeth. His maddening eyes shine out from his bloodied and war torn face. He is the perfect choice to play a leader of men and disturbed king. His voice wraps around Shakespeare’s words, performing them like songful poetry. His on-screen co-conspirator Marion Cotillard transforms into Lady Macbeth. She steals scenes, and chills you bones. She trades her classic hysteria for a quiet desperation, and a longing to be relieved from guilt and grief, which ultimately becomes her downfall. The couple are perfect …show more content…
So many Macbeth’s have come and gone, but this version play seriously on your emotions. Screen writers Jacob Koskoff, Micheal Leshe and Todd Louiso have adapted Shakespeare’s words in a truly unique way. The audience are thrown into the first scene, wind whipping around a Scottish moor, a faint chill ripples your skin as you sit back and watch the events unfold. A grieving Macbeth family stand around a pyre-side, watching a dead infant go up in flames. Shakespeare is famous for not giving a huge amount of stage directions in his plays, the adaptors of the script seem to have taken some creative licence. This powerful twist from the original text, shows an ingenious inside to the Macbeth madness. Everything that follows may be a frenzied, power-hungry attempt to fill the void only a child could