5/19/2023 0 Comments Ophelia by Lisa M. Klein![]() ![]() ![]() Hamlet (George MacKay), left, and Laertes (Tom Felton). I wish this wasn’t the case with Claire McCarthy’s Ophelia, which held out the intriguing prospect of retelling Hamlet from a female perspective, but the realisation is a travesty rather than a clever metafiction. So, too, with young adult movies that display a simplistic morality which would make any intelligent teenager roll their eyes in disgust. Surely children are capable of forming their own judgments about a painting without being guided down some narrow path an adult has mapped out in advance. It reminds me of the "children’s labels" in art exhibitions that ask inane and patronising questions. Alas, the very thought of a demographic seems to clap creative handcuffs on some filmmakers. Young adult is one of those phrases that hints at a broad range of cinematic sins, but there’s no reason why a movie ostensibly targeted at teenagers should be inferior in terms of plot or conception to films made for a general audience. ![]()
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