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...understanding Hamlet is that he could not and did not wish to feel part of "this harsh world," yet he had to operate in it. He retreated to soliloquies in which he could talk honestly to no one near him and speak his mind into space...
...Enter Hamlet, mirthless, disheveled and on cue, at the year's end in a Kenneth Branagh movie that resurrected the melancholy, not-quite-corny figure yet again and plunked him in the middle of the aging New World. Here was the eternal young man, immensely gifted and born to high expectations, who had an overwhelming moral problem and either did not know what to do or did and could not do it. His inaction would never have been as poignant had he not been encumbered with the wild idea that a person should do whatever is nobler in the mind...
...loved you ever, but it is no matter," Hamlet tells Laertes, suggesting that they live in a world where nothing matters...
...fatness of these pursy times/ Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg," says Hamlet to Gertrude. Pursy means short-winded, in poor condition...
...could summarize the studios' elevated intentions in one word: Hamlet. The whole thing--four hours of Elizabethan English, courtesy of Kenneth Branagh. It's the toniest offering in a bag of very worthy holiday films. And still we hear America saying, "Anyone for pigging out in front of the bowl games...