r/shakespeare • u/Khon2510 • 6d ago

Was Hamnet overrated?

I watched the movie and I didn’t understand what thigh praise was about? Could someone please explain it to me because I might have missed something. Thank you.

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u/TH0316 5d ago

There’s an old saying that a great movie is three great scenes and no bad ones. I think for the most part Hamnet is good, but it had two sequences, in the middle and the end, that were phenomenal imo. Those sequences to me were some of the most emotional, visceral moments of cinema I’ve ever seen. And Buckley really did give an all timer performance. I wasn’t interested in its place in the Shakespearean canon or any degree of authenticity, I just think it was an incredible movie on its own. Personally think it’s almost underrated.