Few storytellers can match Shakespeare for his vast range of timeless themes and awesome characters. Imagine what the Bard could have accomplished if he had had a laptop and smartphone.
Among his works, ¡°Macbeth¡± ¡ª a compelling study of a husband-wife team whose thirst for power leads to their tragic undoing ¡ª has been adapted for screen and stage countless times ¡ª both faithfully and stylistically, including by Akira Kurosawa for his 1957 ¡°Throne of Blood¡± set in feudal Japan.
This latest version, however, is a sucker punch to be reckoned with. Directed by Australia¡¯s Justin Kurzel ¡ª who marked his feature debut with the brutally gruesome ¡°Snowtown¡± in 2011 (based on a real-life serial killer in southern Australia) ¡ª ¡°Macbeth¡± shows the director¡¯s fascination with the allure of power, violence and sadism, and how some relationships thrive (and then rapidly unravel) on a total absence of moral compunction.
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