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Like most writers, Duchovny borrows heavily from the canon of literature, theater, and film, but he does so sloppily. This movie has the potential to achieve a Shakespearean tone: Tommy’s mom is something of a female King Lear; Pappass is the ubiquitous wise Fool; and Lady is the shrewd and mystical ethnic sorceress. Duchovny’s writing, however, unwittingly directs these characters away from their potential classical allusions and makes them instead into one-dimensional clich?...
...failure of the Prince and his friends to create a believable feminine identity simply by wearing women’s clothes (in contrast to the convincing disguise they provide for men in Shakespearean comedies) reveals the play’s agenda to express gender as rigid and biologically-determined. The fact that the eunuchs can dress monochromatically like women demonstrates that they have lost their biologically male trait...
...failure of the Prince and his friends to create a believable feminine identity simply by wearing women’s clothes (in contrast to the convincing disguise they provide for men in Shakespearean comedies) reveals the play’s agenda to express gender as rigid and biologically-determined. The fact that the eunuchs can dress monochromatically like women demonstrates that they have lost their biologically male trait...
...film doesn't scale Shakespearean heights, but it does give its star a nicely gnarled ogre to play. Day-Lewis, who can make lunatic intensity seem a form of sainthood, finds in Jack a lion whose majesty is in the severe wounds he has inflicted and been afflicted by. The film is Jack's ballad, and Day-Lewis its roaring, charismatic bard. --By Richard Corliss
...collaboration of the hyper-verbal playwright Shaplin and the movement-oriented theater company is a union of diametric opposites. Though the play does have some very physical moments, “we also have this really intense nouveau-Shakespearean language which mixes a lot of high poetry with vicious insults; you have to take a big breath before you start talking...