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...plot synopsis in the notes for the retrospective concludes with the sentence, "Film ends as Jof, Mia and their child walk off towards a new day." That is as cliched a sentence as one can find, but the ending of "The Seventh Seal" is far from cliched. Just as the ending of "Smiles of a Summer Night" was in many rspects a false ending belied by the content of the film, the optimistic ending of "The Seventh Seal" is ironical. Mia and Jof walking into the sunrise cannot erase the previous images; Death will come for them...
...Newell and Curtis had developed carrie's role in the plot of this film as well as they did the film's subplots, perhaps we would have come away feeling that two kindred souls had found each other rather than wondering why a man who had been happy in his bachelorhood would eagerly relinquish it for a woman who seems little more than a lovely shell...
...appearing simultaneously to celebrate and parody Aristophanes' world, this production is unclear in its message. This confusion of purpose confines the production to a bawdy exultation of rut, making it lack dramatic, or even comedic tension. Two demensional characterization and widespread overacting renders the interpersonal relationships and the various plot-twists uninteresting...
These themes come across with such clarity not because of the modern-day context, but because of the emoitve power of Shakespeare's writing. His plot is quite simple, and a little forced--but his themes are universal and enduring. Both the difficulty and the reward of Shakespeare lie in the language; giving the narrative or the context a facelift won't change this. Edzard ultimately fails to make Shakespeare any more accessible because she concentrates on making the easy part easier (with limited success), rather than working on the real challenge of bringing his language to life...
...Plot So Far: How Whitewater has emerged...