I risk excommunication from the intelligentsia for saying it out loud -- or at least the faux-intellectual territory that movie critics occupy -- but I've always had a hard time relating to the works of William Shakespeare. The poetry is so dense and antediluvian that you spend most of your mental energy just trying to comprehend the words the people are speaking, leaving little bandwidth for actually getting immersed in the story or emotionally invested in the characters. It's like trying to follow a fast-moving conversation in a language you studied for a couple of years in high school.
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I risk excommunication from the intelligentsia for saying it out loud -- or at least the faux-intellectual territory that movie critics occupy -- but I've always had a hard time relating to the works of William Shakespeare. The poetry is so dense and antediluvian that you spend most of your mental energy just trying to comprehend the words the people are speaking, leaving little bandwidth for actually getting immersed in the story or emotionally invested in the characters. It's like trying to follow a fast-moving conversation in a language you studied for a couple of years in high school.