Apr 20
ok so I also have a lot of Thoughts about Hamnet (dir. Chloe Zhao 2025) and most of them can be summed up in "go see the movie" but
I just keep thinking about the part where Will tells Agnes the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, a story that always ends, that must end, with the two lovers being parted.
And then there's Hamlet, both the character and the play. Hamlet is a tragedy, it always is, and nothing can change that.
Hamlet must die. But so long as the play is played, he never dies alone.
As the ghost says, "remember me." And we do. We will always mourn Hamlet so long as his story is told. It isn't going to change the ending but it might, in some small way, change us.
