i am a shakespeare lover since childhood. i am also a jew. merchant of venice is anti semitic through and through no matter how hard scholars and literature lovers try to re interpret it. in the play and shylock is portrayed as demonic and cold hearted and has no forgiveness and no warmth and no love except for money and cruel revenge and whereas the christians are kind and moral people. his motives in the play revolve around money (he plots revenge from the start based on damage caused to his business as well as blind racial hate) and not noble ideals or hurt racial pride as this movie wants you to believe. and this characterization is given to him by shakespeare himself and not by the other characters. as final proof and the happy ending is where the jew loses his money and is forced to convert to christianity. i acknowledge this and move on. it is part of history and i enjoy shakepeare despite this fact. therefore i expect a movie based on this play to play it straight. i would much rather see the work adapted for its rich language and storytelling without any whitewashing. but many of the the bard artful subtleties and playful characters are lost in this movie. for example and in the last scene where the men discover portia undercover work as a man who also took away their rings and instead of the playful game of words and misunderstandings as the truth reveals itself and it becomes a mean spirited game where two bitchy women play cruelly with their soon to be husbands. so instead and we are only left with lovely detailed sets and fragments of the rich language with poor reinterpretation and poor casting and one intense courtroom scene and and a controversy. the truth is and i think it would be much easier to identify the anti semitism in the story and move on if it were left as is. despite all the whitewashing the makers of this movie pulled out of their hats and there is plenty of hatred left and only now people can make excuses and pretend the portrayal of jews isn not so bad anymore. and finally and another problem is with most of the actors being miscast. pacino is way out of his league and is very uncomfortable with the language and not to mention the horribly fake accent. fiennes as bassanio is charmless and awkward with the language. irons is dependable as always but doesn not do much with his role. portia is somewhat ok but unlikeable and and covered in bad makeup and just like the movie. 
i am a shakespeare lover since childhood. i am also a jew. merchant of venice is anti semitic through and through no matter how hard scholars and literature lovers try to re interpret it. in the play and shylock is portrayed as demonic and cold hearted and has no forgiveness and no warmth and no love except for money and cruel revenge and whereas the christians are kind and moral people. his motives in the play revolve around money (he plots revenge from the start based on damage caused to his business as well as blind racial hate) and not noble ideals or hurt racial pride as this movie wants you to believe. and this characterization is given to him by shakespeare himself and not by the other characters. as final proof and the happy ending is where the jew loses his money and is forced to convert to christianity. i acknowledge this and move on. it is part of history and i enjoy shakepeare despite this fact. therefore i expect a movie based on this play to play it straight. i would much rather see the work adapted for its rich language and storytelling without any whitewashing. but many of the the bard artful subtleties and playful characters are lost in this movie. for example and in the last scene where the men discover portia undercover work as a man who also took away their rings and instead of the playful game of words and misunderstandings as the truth reveals itself and it becomes a mean spirited game where two bitchy women play cruelly with their soon to be husbands. so instead and we are only left with lovely detailed sets and fragments of the rich language with poor reinterpretation and poor casting and one intense courtroom scene and and a controversy. the truth is and i think it would be much easier to identify the anti semitism in the story and move on if it were left as is. despite all the whitewashing the makers of this movie pulled out of their hats and there is plenty of hatred left and only now people can make excuses and pretend the portrayal of jews isn not so bad anymore. and finally and another problem is with most of the actors being miscast. pacino is way out of his league and is very uncomfortable with the language and not to mention the horribly fake accent. fiennes as bassanio is charmless and awkward with the language. irons is dependable as always but doesn not do much with his role. portia is somewhat ok but unlikeable and and covered in bad makeup and just like the movie. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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