Tragedy of Hamlet is taken to the pure white screen

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When I got an invitation to Nigel Tomm's new film presentation I was happily surprised. For me it is always a pleasure to see new adaptations of some classical dramas. So, I went to a new film adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', directed by Nigel Tomm. I thought I'll watch this new version of Hamlet and after some chat with Nigel will go home. But I was wrong. I couldn't imagine where I was going.

When the movie started, everybody (Nigel Tomm's friends were invited) couldn't understand it had already started. It was a pure white screen: without titles, without sound, without images, without anything... It was just pure white screen, and it was new Nigel Tomm's 'Hamlet.' After the first three minutes people began to talk. After five minutes talks were getting louder and louder. After ten minutes the public began to walk away. After fifteen minutes almost all the people was gone. I stayed until the end (the movie last 63 minutes). Those who stayed till the end were happy, they were clapping, they were screaming: 'Bravo!'

To help you understand what the movie is about I'll give you a text from the back side of DVD:

This is 63 minutes and 1 second of pure white screen. Nothing less and nothing more. Just shocking new absurdism. Without compromise. Without compare. Nigel Tomm brings his own version of William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet.' Luminous. Sensuous. Iconic. From the moment you touch the play button, the experience begins. Visually stunning, emotionally precise, the extraordinary awaits you. Probably it is one of the most intense, the most radical, the most innovative manifestation of the freedom of thought, of expression and of creation. This is the new 'Hamlet' - the most majestic 'Hamlet' experience by Nigel Tomm.

What can I say about this new 'Hamlet'? It really shocks, it hits brains and makes you think: 'It's all in the head, isn't it?' Hamlet isn't a character inside the screen anymore, he lives inside of everyone of us - he's behind our brains, eyes or daily emotions, because he's a white screen, he's a background. Such would be my interpretation.