MACBETH... Fair is foul and foul is fair.

The last time we watched "Shakespeare Walla" movie, I nearly fell asleep in the middle of the scenes. However, it was a different situation when we watched Macbeth. My eyes were wide open till the very end and I definitely enjoyed the movie. Even though, we did not read Macbeth as one of the compulsory text in the drama class, after watching the movie I felt interested to read the actual original play. While enjoying the movie, I tried to make comparison of the movie with King Lear. Based from my observation, the issues presented in both plays and perhaps in most Shakespeare works are mainly about greed and power. People will do everything to gain the power and materialistic thing. Even though Macbeth is rewarded with gifts from his crime boss, Duncan for serving him faithfully and performing bravely in a vicious gangland rip-off, these gifts are nothing compared to what Duncan lavishes on his son Malcolm. Macbeth wonders why he bothers to stick his neck out when Malcolm does nothing at all. Macbeth was greedy and he wished for more than what he already had. Macbeth is a story of horror-filled and also full of gory. There are lots of bloody scenes, killings, violence and betrayals. Well, just forget the gory scenes because there always some moral values everybody can learn after the movie ended. I prefer to watch a movie which leaves me something to be thought about after that.Just like the Brechtian play that left the audience to response intellectually. As always, Shakespeare deeper purpose seems to be to show us our own lives and make us think. That’s what I like about Shakespeare.