Welcome back to My Year Of Shakespeare, the blog series where I watch 50-plus Shakespeare adaptations and write about them. Today we watched Scotland, PA, a slight latecomer to both of its genres — a late 90s Teen Shakespeare adaptation, and an indie 90s screwball slacker comedy — and it executes on both counts admirably.

A Brief Synopsis

Mac is stuck in a dead-end job at Duncan's, a fast food…

Hey did you know this movie rips? That Marlon Brando is a captivating presence on-screen in a way that Charlton Heston completely wasn't? Hoo boy. This makes up for the last one. Welcome back to My Year Of Shakespeare and beware those ides.

Interpretive Summary

I'm trying something slightly different this time*; I'm going to ignore sentence count and try to provide some of my own interpretive…