Shakespeare's Hamlet - 'To be or not to be...'

"To be or not to be..." A short edited to Kenneth Branagh's reading of the big Act 3 Scene 1 soliloquy from Shakespeare's Hamlet. It is a different take on it, a little out of context- but I think it works.
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"I have made the big decision
I'm gonna try to nullify my life
cause when the blood begins to flow
When it shoots up the droppers neck
When Im closing in on death
And you cant help me not, you guys
And all you sweet girls with all your sweet silly talk
You can all go take a walk
And I guess that I just don't know"
Lou Reed/ Heroin

"The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide."
Kurt Vonnegut

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.


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[PennyTraition]

A superb take on the famous soliloquy. It works perfectly; it has to be remembered just what was made when first written.Thanx for this...another view of genius.Surreal, spine-tingling and very well made.A masterpiece. X.

[Bullzeye95]

For the Shakespeare challenged, Hamlet means the only thing that's keeping many, many people from killing themselves is the awful fear of trading a Hell they know for a Hell they do not. Because nobody can ever be 100% certain that they will get the blissful nonexistence they seek. Ay, there's the rub.

[mitraljez]

wtf :P he who made the... :P

[fathappymonkey]

scary

[Nako13yeh]

I really hope i memorize this in just today... tomorrow..oct. 14...oh!! i'm going to have my oral recitation. I hope i tell it to the class corectly. this is awesome so much passion, and love....and stuffs. i love the speaker..

[skittlexrainbowz]

hei hei this is kickass

i say this at school all the time

[beezyb42011]

damn couldnt exit out these words are way to true

[BlueEyedCelt]

My friend, the hurt seems like it will never go, life is tragically all the more beautiful & seemingly fragile for this. I've heard time is a great healer yet, so much of it is needed to heal a life of such Ills. A moment of peace & quiet, we beg that may it last a little longer, sadly it doesn't. For to long I was heart sick broken & weary that I in anguish opened my soul to the universe & Implored, pleaded "heal me" I was answered beyond the constraints of words.

(Amsterdam, Ibogaine Oct 08)

[forloveoffilm]

Thank you! I appreciate your sharing your vision with the world. I feel more enriched by having experienced your work.

In the info you state this being somewhat out of context; I feel the context is taken to a whole, different level.

Five Stars and Favorite!

[nycblaz]

Real hardcore- beautiful, provokes thought and emotion! Thank you for putting this meditation on death,...and life, together. It hits like a shot in the arm, or the heart.

[tyrepikke]

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