Roman Polanski's film version of Macbeth

To make a film from a play, you have to make your own interpretation of what the play contains, similar to the kind of choices that any director must make if they wish to stage the play. However, what is interesting about the film of Macbeth as directed by Roman Polanski is the focus on death and violence from the first. The most remarkable thing is; Polanski depicts the darkness and violence perfectly for the audience. Especially for people who has never read the play, he extracts the theme of darkness properly with some sound effects. At the beginning of the play in act two scene two Lady Macbeth refers that she heard an ominous owl sound and it represents the Macbeth is going to kill the Duncan. In the film Polanski develops that key image with eerie music that dominates the descent of Macbeth into evil and there is a lot of blood.

Another key image in the play that is developed in the film is Macbeth's famous image from act five scene seven, when he compares himself to a bear being baited:

They have tied me to a stake: I cannot fly, 

But, bear-like, I must fight the course.

This image is developed by having an actual bear-baiting during the play, and then the grisly corpse of the bear being carried away, focusing on how Macbeth is, by the end of the play, pictured as a bear being baited, awaiting his death. Roman Polanski made a movie in 1971 after his wife and unborn children were murdered by Charles Manson and his cronies maybe it effects the film version of Macbeth's darkness and pessimism. 

The climax of the film refers to the siege that is forced upon Macbeth in his castle, resulting in his death and the crowing of Malcolm as King. The main element focused upon in this scene is the extensive amount of violence and brutality present. Such a theme represents not only the context in which the film is set, but in which Polanski’s interpretation was based. The film is set in medieval times, in approximately the fifteenth century. The violence and brutality displayed in the climax help to emphasise the uncivilised and dark period in which the film is set. The setting and the supernatural idea that relate to the climax similarly display such context.