Goold's Macbeth was a very strange film. One could ponder for hours upon the director's many unconventional choices regarding this adaptation of the well known Shakespearean play but instead, I feel that it is important to examine some of the choices Goold made that were effective in translating the source material into more understandable terms. In this rare circumstance, I found that the more reserved approach worked greatly in comparison to the more theatrical versions I have seen in the past. Watching three spooky women in nurses uniforms recite lines at a slow and deliberate pace without any body motion or theatrics whatsoever served to benefit this film as compared to the older adaptations in which the witches spoke rapidly and moved sporadically across the stage. Similarly I found the sandwich scene to be quite intriguing as the simple action of separating food into smaller portions sent a very clear message about the game of power Macbeth was playing. In general I think that the overall slowness when reading the dialogue served to benefit the film. It made it much easier to understand for me personally and I think that it was quite an effective tactic.
Questions:
1. Why jumble the timeline even more with the unchoreographed differences in military equipment?
2. What part of the original source material led the director to think that excessive violence would fit as well into this film as it did?
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