Merchant of Venice, the movie
Excellent cast, excellent music, decorations, locale shoots,
but Shakespeare.....
this is one of the biggest anti-semitic plays I ever seen.
Jews, who were forced into banking by Christian laws, made much better case in the movie than their Christian oppressors. The banker and merchant signed the legal contract, and how was Sheylock denied his rightful claim of the pound of flesh?
By faked judge, total mockery of the existing law and trickery red neck Christians adhese to the Jews!
I find great satisfaction that this si only a play and only a movie, and in real life,
Jews DID start the world banking system, thanks to the laws Christians bounded them with and basically have won.
Turn in your grave, Shakespeare, the 21st Century movie, something no American movie director has tried since 1914, due to its antisemitic playwright,
portrayed main charecters as shallow bigots, and the only character who is worth sympathy is...Sheylock.
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