Hamnet
It’s no Upstart Crow, jusk like modern “biopics”, it leaves so much of the information outside the subtext, let alone the text. Fitting that Spielberg produces another film about daddy issues.
The emotional manipulation rivals Disney in insidiousness. I’m with Peter Hall:
Peter Hall in his 2000 lectures Exposed by the Mask. In them, he argues that if you wish to reduce an audience to tears, you don’t show a child crying – you show a child attempting not to cry
The bad:
- no mention of Will’s mother being a pompous folderall before marrying John, the lout. Why is she dressed like a pilgrim, the fundies were all gone to America to die in Jamestown
- mo mention of the London clique of university twats mocking the Stratford bumsnot, a mere country bumpkin making their plays look like shit
- no mention of boisterous comedies the very same alleged suicidal depressed Will produced probably around the same time
Other films to avoid are Shakespeare in Love, and probably Anonymous.
The positives:
- mentioning the only way they would marry is if he knocked her up the duffington, but for woke purposes, she’s into it. His ears do perk up when his sister mentions he’s the daughter, not a milk maid
- money problems, replaced by a low cosmopolitrometer value. Will wants to go to London to get away from menial work and boring ass life of rural dullness
Besides Upstart Crow, might as well see the source material in The Northman, little Amleth the berserker.
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