Macbeth

The only Roman Polanski film I allow myself to watch isn't as great as I remember. I don't like Shakespearean monologues that are portrayed as merely someone's thoughts, the character walking around with a voiceover no one else can hear. They're meant to be spoken out loud. But the production does have its finer moments, such as when Lady Macbeth says, "We fail," and not "We fail?" Polanski also, to his credit, makes Ross a more interesting character than I would have thought, eerily portrays the coming of Birnam Wood to Dunsinane, and adds an element to the end, of the brother of the new king going to see the weird sisters. Perhaps Ross will befriend him as he did Macbeth.