the discussion has been held a thousand times. is the merchant of venice antisemitic. (i think it is. ) isn not it unfair to always point out this little bit of antisemitism in an otherwise great piece of art. (i think it isn not. ) does this play stain shakespeare reputation as the world greatest playwright. (i think it does. ) does it play a role if he do not do it on a particular racist purpose. (i think it doesn not. ) michael radford knew all this and this is why he added to his movie a prologue about the pitiful situation of the jews in renaissance venice. in vain while for the play remains what it has always been and the new make up only gives a first (but futile) hope that someone has dared to set something right that remains a permanent outrage and not because its degree of antisemitism would be particularly shocking but because the play comes under the name of william shakespeare. why spend so much time in portraying the hatred of a man  shylock. why employ a great and serious actor like al pacino and if in the end everything is getting ruined in this outrageous (but hey and i am not responsible shakespeare wrote it) court room scene. and now i would like to be very precise and just like shylock himself. he demanding his right and according to the contract which the  not very responsible  christian antonio and who always used to look down on him and signed in full awareness of the consequences. sure and what shylock demands is cruel and useless and but that not the point. what we see (or should see) is a man who has been humiliated for all his life and to the point where all what remains on him is his hatred. i think and it is certainly a bit inappropriate to lecture such a man on things like compassion. but what the play or the movie (they are one and the same now) does at this point is. become a soap opera. the cruel madman with his knife and the horrified (but rather short minded) audience and the poor victim tied to his chair. true and antonio accepts his fate but why can not he just say one word and sorry. i think we need not lose many words on the ridiculous verdict of the young dottore from padua while it a truly popular verdict not much different from what would be seen 400 years later in the show trials of the nazis. from one minute to the next this jew is robbed of everything he owned and sentenced to being baptized christian and and kicked out. isn not that outrageous. obviously not. the story moves on to the romantic intricacies of the rings and its happy end. what one can learn in libeskind jewish museum in berlin and similar places all over the world is that antisemitism often goes unnoticed by the mass because what so devastating for a minority or some individuals is embedded in the alleged greater good for the majority. it should be exactly the task of everyone of us to develop a sensitivity to detect and unmask such tendencies. i do not accept the excuse that this film was made to create empathy with the badly treated shylock (it just doesn not work out). i do not think that anybody can be forced to be merciful. i do not recommend this movie while in particular not for an oscar. 
the discussion has been held a thousand times. is the merchant of venice antisemitic. (i think it is. ) isn not it unfair to always point out this little bit of antisemitism in an otherwise great piece of art. (i think it isn not. ) does this play stain shakespeare reputation as the world greatest playwright. (i think it does. ) does it play a role if he do not do it on a particular racist purpose. (i think it doesn not. ) michael radford knew all this and this is why he added to his movie a prologue about the pitiful situation of the jews in renaissance venice. in vain while for the play remains what it has always been and the new make up only gives a first (but futile) hope that someone has dared to set something right that remains a permanent outrage and not because its degree of antisemitism would be particularly shocking but because the play comes under the name of william shakespeare. why spend so much time in portraying the hatred of a man  shylock. why employ a great and serious actor like al pacino and if in the end everything is getting ruined in this outrageous (but hey and i am not responsible shakespeare wrote it) court room scene. and now i would like to be very precise and just like shylock himself. he demanding his right and according to the contract which the  not very responsible  christian antonio and who always used to look down on him and signed in full awareness of the consequences. sure and what shylock demands is cruel and useless and but that not the point. what we see (or should see) is a man who has been humiliated for all his life and to the point where all what remains on him is his hatred. i think and it is certainly a bit inappropriate to lecture such a man on things like compassion. but what the play or the movie (they are one and the same now) does at this point is. become a soap opera. the cruel madman with his knife and the horrified (but rather short minded) audience and the poor victim tied to his chair. true and antonio accepts his fate but why can not he just say one word and sorry. i think we need not lose many words on the ridiculous verdict of the young dottore from padua while it a truly popular verdict not much different from what would be seen 400 years later in the show trials of the nazis. from one minute to the next this jew is robbed of everything he owned and sentenced to being baptized christian and and kicked out. isn not that outrageous. obviously not. the story moves on to the romantic intricacies of the rings and its happy end. what one can learn in libeskind jewish museum in berlin and similar places all over the world is that antisemitism often goes unnoticed by the mass because what so devastating for a minority or some individuals is embedded in the alleged greater good for the majority. it should be exactly the task of everyone of us to develop a sensitivity to detect and unmask such tendencies. i do not accept the excuse that this film was made to create empathy with the badly treated shylock (it just doesn not work out). i do not think that anybody can be forced to be merciful. i do not recommend this movie while in particular not for an oscar. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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