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Information
- Year
- 1996
- Runtime
- 124 min.
- Director
- Nicholas Hytner
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Rating *
- 6.8
- Votes *
- 26,912
- Checks
- 2,937
- Favs
- 82
- Dislikes
- 35
- Favs/checks
- 2.8% (1:36)
- Favs/dislikes
- 2:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
Arthur Miller's 1996 adaptation of The Crucible (he wrote the screenplay) is at once about the Salem witch trials and the McCarthyism of his own era... and perhaps it's about our own ever-more-irrational time as well. It's cautionary tale as a American story, with the dangers of public hysteria boiling in a Kafkaesque sauce of absurdity (I don't know why my mind went to a cauldron metaphor there), the characters damned either no matter what they do because logic doesn't live where emotion rules. But in losing, there's a sort of winning, at least by Puritan ideal, in that victory a condemnation of Puritan leadership. Nicholas Hytner's adaptation is fair, but nothing flashy. Something you might have expected from a TV version, almost, if not for its high-end cast, including Winona Ryder, Daniel Day-Lewis and Joan Allen. In the end, it's their performances and the text of the play that win the day, not the direction. 7 years 5 months ago -
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Dewsions
It's alright somehow, not the worst but it helps those who are studying the play as well. 11 years 1 month ago