Saturday, December 03, 2005

The Merchant of Venice! wow!

Yesterday i went to see the Merchant of Venice, i assume it was a british production.
It was breathtaking!
Al Pacino's perfromance was simply divine! The story itsself, and the words, the verses everything was awesome. It's definetly one of Shakespeare's finest!
I have read some of his work but not this particular one, and i regret it now.

The best scene was the monologue that Al Pacino did, in the middle of the movie about how Jews breath the same air as christians, eat the same food - etc.
I had to fight to urge to stand up and cheer and applaud.

I am definetly going to go see the movie again,
I will put the book on my reading list, however the book will not have that big of an effect - since my imagination is now limited with the movie and i cannot picture it myself.

I urge everyone of you to go see it - it's fantastic!

1 comment:

Thea said...

is it on the movies??? Having lived in places which don't have cinemas for the past 6months I have no idea what's going on!!! Al pacino is playing??? Ahh had the merchant of venice for my English A Level at school.... and I still remember some of the verses.... its a great book... though luli i'm not too sure if i'd advise you to read the real shakespear book, it might take you years to finish it!!!