![]() ![]() She gets a happy ending far away from Elsinore, where she tells her own story to her young daughter. (Which means that in the film, she dies the same way she does in Shakespeare’s play-but this time by her own choice.) Meanwhile Ophelia chooses to leave a world that values vengeance over justice, and over love. Indeed, Mechtild and Gertrude’s tragedy is compounded by Gertrude’s decision to drink the vial of poison she finds in Claudius’s possession just after killing him. “They would use the tools that they already have in their hands, or they’ll use the tools of that world, and that world would bring them down.” “We decided in a world in which women are not valued.they may not have the ability to rewrite their own world, rewrite their own story,” the director said.
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