'Hamlet' Movie Screening

I really enjoyed the movie ‘Hamlet ‘by Kenneth Branagh. While watching we could enjoy more rather than just reading the play.

• Yes, of course it is faithful to the original play ‘Hamlet’. Like characters and dialogues is same one. And Shakespearean is well known for his soliloquies in the play and these soliloquies are well-visualized by Kenneth Branagh. 

• After watching movie I changed my perspective about the character of Hamlet. In the play we do not see the madness of Hamlet but in a movie we can see very well. And can observe two characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are not shown mad in the play or they are not given more importance in the play but when an individual can observe it when he/she watches the movie so we may say that after watching the movie I could change the perspective of the characters.

• When we watch movie we get aesthetic delight. In grave diggers scene conversation of two grave diggers. And some time when Hamlet in madness He makes mockery with Polonius.

• Yes, I feel catharsis when Ophelia cry on death of her father and she behaves like mad. And also Ophelia’s death the tragic end of her.

• The screening of the play really helped me to understand the play in a better way because sometimes it may be possible that while reading the original play we may not be able to understand or grasp the meaning what the writer as well as dramatist wants to convey but when we visualize the play at that time we may come across so many things which we missed during the reading of the original play that’s why I can say that when I watched the movie I could understand well rather than just reading the play.

• The scene which I can cherish lifetime that is nunnery scene which was well directed by the director in the movie.so this scene which I like to cherish and it is also famous one.

• If I would be a director then I would change many things from this movie like significance of female characters in the play especially Ophelia who is the heroine of the play she is not given more importance in the play while Hamlet is given an inevitable role to play because he has power so if I would be the director then I would also change the role of Claudius because when Claudius prays to God at that time Hamlet delays to kill him even he thinks that if he would kill Claudius then his soul would go in heaven therefore if I would be the director then I never allow Claudius to be alive.

• I could find the symbolism in the play when the statue of Hamlet’s father is shown at that time it symbolizes the fear or darkness in the mind of Hamlet.

• The only approach, which can be applicable to the play is moral and philosophical approach because ‘Hamlet’ possesses so many things which we can relate with moral as well as philosophical aspects and this play can also be studied on this approach and separate study can be done because this play occupies these kinds of deep-layered elements.

• Before watching movie I felt that Mythological and Archetypal approach would fit here because the Greek tragedies, the story of Hamlet was not the playwright’s invention but was drawn legend. And in play The Ghost scene it shows the Myth of literature.