Lady McBeth

Really like this one.

The set up looks like some thing that would normally bore the hell out of me but that was not the case with Lady McBeth. The whole pace of the movie was set up well and the acting in it was brilliant.

It feels like one of those straight up adaptions from some play or something. I don’t know if that was the case. Also reminds me of another movie made about the same time period, the Beguiled. The contrast between the two films is how raw Lady McBeth is, absolutely no flash.

So a young woman is force into a loveless marriage where her husband dislikes her and is sent away for a long period of time. In that time she has an affair with the stable boy and they go through dramatic lengths to keep seeing each other.

At first I thought this movie was going to be filled with feminist elements to go hand and hand with the period the movie is coming out in, and technically it is but just not in the way I had imagined. The true concept I’m seeing here has mostly to do with the advantages of privilege and how easy one can get consumed by it if you have it, and screwed by it if you don’t.

Overall, the beauty of the film is showing how truly ugly some people can be, and doing it in a way that’s exciting and colorful rather than making me turned off.