Review on "As You Like It"

First of all, I thought the last movie that we are going to watch for the semester is “The Streetcar Named Desire”. But somehow when Yuen Thien told the class that there is another movie that needs to be watch, I was quite surprised. Honestly, I think the movies were quite dull. After all, it’s literature! The movies that we have watched were not acted out by Brad Pitt! “As You Like It” was the last movie that I watched. This Shakespeare adaptation was a blur to me. I felt asleep halfway and I need lots of catching up to do to understand the movie. But to my surprised, most of my classmates didn’t understand the movie also. That was not a big surprised. I was busy discussing with Agnes what the movie was all about and who the hero was. First we thought the hero was the Negro man, but the real hero was the man with the long beard. Well, we are not sure if that is the real hero up until today. Personally, I think the language that was used in the movie makes all of us did not understand the whole movie well. Yes, I was a modern movie but yet the dialogue was the Shakespearean dialogue with lots of thou and art. Perhaps we would understand better if we pay full attention to the movie when it was screen rather than guessing and discussing what the movie was all about!