Elizabeth/Macbeth

Last week, we had a few movie sessions and the first movie was Elizabeth at the Golden Age which I found very interesting movie to be watched. This story was focusing on Elizabeth’s strength of mind to uphold the peace on her kingdom. She was a very highly spiritual person when she motivated her soldier before they turned up at the battlefield. The storyline was quite good since the movie showed the internal conflict of hers when Elizabeth had been caught between her love with her own admiral and her responsibility as a Queen of England to protect her country from Spain. Eventhough this movie have made use some of CGI which I found it appeared unconvincingly, that would be fine anyway.

Then, other movie that we watched is Macbeth. This movie was quite exciting and I noticed that it helps you to understand better after you read the novel. Besides, Roman Polanski still kept the original storyline but there are some new improvisations that he included to make it more interesting and very real. In my opinion, it was a good movie as it was talking about few issues that regard to our political situation this day.

While we have studied this play, we could understand more about the scenes and the story plot in the text. On the other hand, this movie can be used for teaching aids in order to attract students’ attention also provide them with suitable material. Hence, the lessons will be more magnetize.