Roman Polanski’s (The Pianist, Rosemary’s Baby) star-studded Carnage, a movie adapted from the successful Tony Award Winning God of Carnage, translates on the big screen as unsuccessfully as the play, I imagine at least) plays successfully on stage. I envision Yasmina Reza written One Act as an intriguing character study that unfolds before our eyes on stage, something we don’t get much chance to see in a play. Though I have not seen God of Carnage and do not plan on doing so, I imagine it as being similar to Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman in the sense that there are just a few characters which, in turn, allows us to see these characters developed deeper and in a more meaningful way than would a play like Romeo and Juliet. The whole time I was watching this movie, I kept asking myself why this play was made into a film and how it drew the interest of Polanski and the four (including three Academy Award Winning) actors. As a play, I envision this being great. As a movie, I asked myself, “Why?”. Continue reading Carnage (2011) →