Macbeth is back in its fiercest iteration thanks to Michael Fassbender?s coruscating performance in the title role. True to the play?s recurring theme of paradox??Two truths are told?; ?cannot be ill, cannot be good?; ?Fair is foul, and foul is fair?; ?When the battle?s lost and won?; ?Nothing is / But what is not??he plays the murderous Scot as two things at once: savage and battling with regret. He nails it, right between the eyes.
Macbeth needed the coming of cinema for its fullest realization as conceived by the playwright: only film can properly manufacture the augurs melting into air, the ghosts that are manifestations of interior guilt and external acts both.
Cinema, could only deliver one of the most chilling points this adaptation makes: boys. This war was fought by children. Just as wars throughout history have been and continue to be. The camera lingers on the innocent faces, alive and in a moment to be dead, of those comprising the army whose blood will arc through the air so poetically in slow motion. We are meant to understand clearly they are just boys.
And then the musical score sounds with an undeniable echo of the high-low siren, dreaded song of modern-day disaster.
10-12-2015 - Vidéo Michael Fassbender /
