Recent Viewings, Part 2

[Rev. Powell]

HAMNET (2025): Young William Shakespeare courts and marries a witch, who bears his children while foreseeing a death of a child. The film effectively rebuts the theory, espoused by almost no one, that the death of his son Hamnet from the plague inspired Shakespeare to write "Hamlet." As Agnes Shakespeare, Jessie Buckley is great; the movie, however, is mediocre. 2.5/5.

[M.10rda]

The film effectively rebuts the theory, espoused by almost no one, that the death of his son Hamnet from the plague inspired Shakespeare to write "Hamlet."

I've paid no attention to this film, but according to both my wife and my mother, the promotions for HAMNET focus on the theory that his son's death inspired the play. You mean to say it then goes ahead and rebuts the premise that is the foundation of the film's publicity?  That's wild. You're right, though. No one who is seriously into the Shakespearean canon is too interested in his dead son.

[Rev. Powell]

The film effectively rebuts the theory, espoused by almost no one, that the death of his son Hamnet from the plague inspired Shakespeare to write "Hamlet."

I've paid no attention to this film, but according to both my wife and my mother, the promotions for HAMNET focus on the theory that his son's death inspired the play. You mean to say it then goes ahead and rebuts the premise that is the foundation of the film's publicity?  That's wild. You're right, though. No one who is seriously into the Shakespearean canon is too interested in his dead son.

yes, I mean to say it's so badly done that it disproves its own thesis.