Roman Polanski's interpretation of Tragedy of Macbeth was the best adaptation of text for the screen I have ever seen because he didn't change the flow of the play and movie makes audience to feel same as when they read the play. In the movie,there were extremely effective scenes such as, Macbeth's second meeting with witches and Lady Macbeth's sleep walking scene. However, I find particularly effective Macbeth's response to Lady Macbeth's death because this scene reflects Macbeth's current psychology perfectly.
Before this scene in the play, he was very decisive and fully courageous to protect his kingdom because of witches prophecies: Birnam Woods cannot mach to the Dunsinan and nobody that born of woman can kill him. Also he was even fearless and said "I almost forgot the taste of fears" when he heard the crying woman. However, in the movie when he learned his wife was death, he abandoned all the courageous and fearless actions and began his soliloquy. In this scene he began to walk slowly by talking to himself and his voice was lower than usual because he lost the only person who trusts him. Because of his dearest partner of greatness' death, life lost its meaning for Macbeth. Although he became so cruel for his crown, in this scene as a spectator we feel sympathy for him and observe he is not purely evil.
On the other hand, I find this scene even more emotional after I have read the biography of Roman Polanski. This is because he directed Macbeth two years after his wife Sharon Tate had died. I believe it was difficult for him to direct this scene because both Macbeth and Polanski lost their wife's because of the reasons they have no control over and in a tragic way. Besides, this makes me think that maybe Macbeth's soliloquy after his wife's death also represents Polanski's way to look at life.
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