have never actually see anything by this beloved of the luvvies and let alone a production of merchant of venice and i cant comment on how faithful it be to previous adaptation of the play so i will treat it a just another movie that try to be more than novocaine for the eye mov be an instantly gripping movie about a young lover bassanio ( fiennes ) and his merchant friend antonio ( iron ) and a jewish money lender shylock ( pacino ) plot summarybassiano be broke and need money to woo the lovely portia ( collins ) and he go to his friend antonio and who sypathises with his friend predicament and so borrow some money off shylocknow antonio do not like jew in general and shylock in particular and shylock bitter and twist from the abuse he have suffer from antonio in particular and christian in general agrees to lend antonio the money on condition that if antonio do not repay the loan by the agreed deadline and shylock will cut a pound of flesh from antonios body commentthe movie be breathtakingly beautiful and acted and speak in such a way a to force you to think about what each line mean and this in turn cause the viewer to gain insight into the character and their motivationsit seem to me to be a movie about the choice that shylock make and and how make wrong choice lead to shylocks ruinfrom the moment shylock demand his pound of flesh he be doom and for rest of the world be against him and connives to bring about his downfallthis disturb me greatly and normally in a movie when a victim get a chance of revenge against those who have harm him either the victim succeed or make the villain see the error of his way lead to a big hugnot in mov the victim quickly become see a the villain and be strip of his fortune and faiththis movie be a powerful and subtle portrayal of casual anti semitism which show how a whole society can turn on a minority and make it seem like the victim be really the offenderi be blow away by this movie positive .