i be always impress when a director ( and this case director or screenwriter ) take a piece of classical text and make it come alive . sure and shakespeare text can give you goosebump even when hammer out with self importance and but to see a production where true inventiveness make wonderful word even more so by the provision of context or nuance not find in the stage direction be simply awe inspiring . there be many troubling thing about the play . it be a racist play about racism and that still stick . i have never accept jessica desertion of her father without any acceptable reason . i have never accept the christian position of sanctimonious self righteousness . but and brilliantly and there be a text prologue which help u understand the time and politics in which the story be set and and mercifully and much of jessica part be cut . the text be quite strip down with many passage cut . but and i only noticed one line which be cut at the moment when i expect to hear it and it be replace by a look that say it all . this economy and judicious editing have give u a grip movie not just a film of the play . and at last and there be a rationale a to why antonio be so loyal and generous to the undeserving or unrelated bassanio you can almost feel antonio pulse start to race when he catch glimpse of bassanio passing by in a gondola and or arrive for a visit . but it be as subtle a that no more . i be spellbind . there be many other highlight . i felt the argument during the trial to be heartbreaking . and and the suitor trial be hilarious . add all that to glorious cinematography and costume that resonate with the time and and you will understand why i can not wait to see it again . and again .