Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Entry 3.2 Video for Macbeth


Macbeth (Polanski 1971) -- Witches Opening

                  
            These video is about witches and their reality.  If you watch the video you can see it first of all in the way they look – ugly women, old, and not pleasant at all. They are very weird with the things they are doing and the words that they are saying: “So wither’d and so wild in their attire”. We can see that they speak one by one and it sounds like a song, but not the pleasant one. It is one of the songs that make us feel danger.
            We can see that they are very wild of baring somebody’s hand and also putting the blood on the top. So it is some of connection with dark side of the other world.
            When the video starts we can see contract of different lights that mostly have dark colors. I think that this contrast of colors represent good with light colored and evil with dark colors. That is how we know from childhood that evil is someone who is dressed in dark ugly things and is very dangerous. So I can see witches here as a representatives of darkness. We see them in the middle of the night, and everything around them is unpleasant. So these thing make us believe and feel that evil is around.
            Who is a witch??? From our childhood we used to draw old women with dark cloth and ugly face, and who only scares people around her. And if we watch the video, we can see that the same image of witch is right there. From all the times witches were dealing with magic things, but very dark magic. And the same in video we can see that they are baring someone’s hand and singing weird words.
          William Shakespeare uses such things as dark night, deep water, black colors, and blood. So the same thing we can see in Polanski’s video.
          They are archetypes of goddesses and destiny. These three witches represent the destiny and bad dark world. They are tree women that are doing some dark magic and it is very hard to understand them unless you are one of them.
          I think this video is a good example of Macbeth by Shakespeare and you can see the witches in your real eyes.

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