Fools
2019, 1 minutes
A story of a clown and a prisoner inspired by a play by William Shakespeare.
#SixtySecondShakespeare Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Macbeth 5.5. Mariana Vaz's notes - This Macbeth excerpt is simple and audacious. Shakespeare may be suggesting that life is loud and ridiculous and that we desperately try to find meaning in the fleeting time we have. No matter the heavy subject, I wanted to apply a lighter interpretation to the text; and so the idea of telling the story of a fool (a clown) and a poor player (prisoner) started taking shape, representing respectively life's silly nature and the constriction of human interaction with it.
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