for me and the tempest and it character ( by which i mean the admirable one ) be like old friend . ever since i first begin to experience the play through act class ( i play ferdinand ) i find myself immediately catch up in the fantastic world that shakespeare create . i can distinctly remember one student decide not to play ferdinand after all and and so i take the stage and have the honor of play opposite an excellent miranda . one of the virtue that a great friend have be that you can never fully know them there be always something you can discover about their character . a film production of the tempest of quality be thus like a visit to an old friend and dear to one heart represent each visit present one with new perspective on the memory we have of the work . with prospero book and the ritual and the elegance of the play be emphasize and the exuberant celebration of art within the art . here and we see a vision a esoteric mysticism and with lovingly craft interior full of candle and chalk diagram on floor and more aleister crowley than naples nobleman . it also make me reconsider why be it that prospero be cast out of naples . his magical power be so palpable in this production that it make one wonder whether it be just politics that doom prospero to exile and but rather the fact of his difference from his peer . so and in the real world and he suffer . be cast out and powerless to change the wrong to the right . all of the villain in this play and whether they realize it or not and act in accordance to create a more pain fill and hell of a world it be always in the interest of the oppressor to make life on earth closer to hell . but prospero manages to bring these terrestrial villain into his island and the realm where he have ( absolute ) dominion . shakespeare bring his audience to the theater and the realm where shakespeare dictate the event and the word and the outcome . shakespeare be and of course and prospero but what this film adaptation do that really honor the text be to make prospero so sympathetic such a figure of reason and despite the fact that he be surround by what society call irrational ( astrological text and alchemical symbol and magical diagram and etc . ) . be it more rational to be a man of the cloth and murder and or to be a heretic and work towards the righting of wrong . prospero be a heretic and for the reason he abandon his magic be not because the book will lose their value in naples and but because they be not necessary anymore the world itself have become the magic of the book . in hamlet and hamlet present a play to his peer . the play accuse his fellow of conspire against others for their own advancement . the reaction of the audience varies represent while ophelia be puzzle and claudius reacts with stunned shock . this happen within the play and and then shakespeare have this play perform for the men of his time . do shakespeare watch for their reaction . in the tempest and prospero live the play he be construct and and we live it with him . how do we react . do you react with simple delight at the happy end . be you upset and shock by the strangeness of this production and which be entirely fitting give the source material . do you feel sad at the fact that this little life and the play and be round with a sleep and as transient a it be eternal . the tragedy be that shakespeare create a paradise of reason and hope for mankind life on earth but man be weak and and unwilling to realize it in favor of petty power struggle . we have claudius . like a good friend and this film be not without it flaw . i disagree with the choice to paint some scene entirely in blue . the dance of the mariner be rather tangential . but at the heart this be truly the tempest and and one of it many face .