Right off the bat I would like to say that this movie is just absurd.
Within about ~15 minutes of the film, our two leading characters are asked if they want to pay to have sex with a group of dirty all-male travelling performers. Coincidentally, that's when the movie becomes entertaining. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, from what I can make of it, is a modern rendition/remix of hamlet.
After watching the film, I was left feeling a bit uncomfortable. I wasn’t quite sure what i just watched, and how much of it was theatrical satire, artistic direction, or some sort of homage to the original Hamlet screenplay. I did enjoy watching the two actors perform off of each other. I found that the scenes where our two main (side?) characters had to interact with each other to be the only ones that held my attention long enough to compensate what was going on, and figure out its relation to Hamlet.
At the end of the movie I started to get into this rhythm of questioning both what had just happened on screen, and my reaction to whatever was going on. I feel like that pattern of thought was the director's intention to give us the existential questions about the way we perceive things, and how we perceive what told to us vs what we actually see and understand.
This movie was absurd and then next time I watch it will be the last.
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