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aq2003 · 6 months ago

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the most personally vindicating thing about the hamlet (2009) commentary is doran pointing out the curtains behind hamlet during act 1 scene 5 and how it alludes to the story being a stage production and hints to a sense of theatricality about it all like YESSSSSS that's exactly why i became actively crazy about hamlet (particularly this adpatation) again

#(they also say the bigger reason they couldn't get anything fancy was because they had zero budget)#(but THATS WHAT MAKES IT BEAUTIFUL <3 TO MEEEEE <3333)#hamlet is alllllllll about performance to me it's about how you're perceived by the others around you #whether you're seen or whether you're understood #the stories of avenging sons and princes and how hamlet feels inadequate comparing himself to them. how he can't play that same role #how he compares himself to the first player who can convey fictional emotions better than he can convey his real ones #elsinore in this production with its reflective floors and constant surveillance and the sense that #the characters are aware that they're being watched at all times. and they're all putting on a performance in some way bc of that #the characters turn to the camera sometimes and it's like YOU'RE part of this hyper-surveilled setting as well #hamlet #all this to say hamlet is soooo autistic coded. just trust me on this one

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