Review of The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) by Mauro_Lanari — 21 Jan 2022

(Mauro Lanari).

Mr and Mrs Coen replace the Coen brothers in a film with explicit bombastic formal debts and the folly of using the words of the original text. They aspire to distill the metaphysics of the Shakespearean tragedy but as greenhorns they abandon mythology, not understanding anything about the essential function and meaning of the Three Witches, Weïrd Sisters or Wayward Sisters. They can vomit their misanthropy where, how and when they want, but not by raping the work of the Bard furthest from their worldview. That trio of spiritual figures is not attributable to dreamlike visions and fantasies of remorse imagined by the protagonists for their nefarious morality. According to any scholar, they are the symbol of the fatal destiny to which every entity of the universe is subject, deblaming it in the name of a cosmic deresponsibility.