Polanski's film of "Macbeth" is absolutely outstanding. I don't like the play by Shakespeare that much but I must say that I loved this film.It is filled with gore and action. First of all Macbeth is told that he will become almighty "Thane of Cawdor" by the three witches,and they also tell him that he is to become the King of all Scotland. Macbeth is surprised and does not believe the witches at first but then he realises that if the witches say so then it must be true.He and his wife plan to kill King Duncan who is ruler of Scotland so that Macbeth can become the king. Macbeth does not want anything to do with the horrible deed and tells his wife that he will not kill his king whom he loves.Lady Macbeth (the brains behind the scheme)finally persuades Macbeth to kill his king. Macbeth agrees to murder King Duncan although his mind is telling him not to do the evil deed.Then Macbeth's mind starts to play tricks on him and he sees a dagger before him which is his mind telling him that he can murder King Duncan,it is the bad part of Macbeth telling him to do it and get it done over with,whilst his good side is still telling him not to do it. He finally creeps into King Duncan's chamber at night and murders the king whilst sleeping. Lady Macbeth had given the guards lots of alcohol so that they could fall asleep in order for Macbeth to creep into Duncan's chamber unnoticed.Macbeth stabbed King Duncan causing tons of blood to squirt out of his neck. Lady Macbeth puts blood onto the guards' hands to make everyone believe that it was the gaurds who had murdered King Duncan. Then all of a sudden the tables turn,and Macbeth becomes a ruthless killer whilst Lady Macbeth starts to feel guilty. And I'll leave the rest of the film for auidiences to watch. But take my advise,you wouldn't think that it was Shakespeare who wrote this because it's such a good film.
