"I think one of the amazing things about classic literature is that it gives the audience the opportunity to see what has changed and everything that's stayed the same over time,"
"There's a lot of shifting ideas that are relevant; some are still relevant as they were hundreds of years ago. Looking at the parent piece helps as a window to explore the thin"
Scarlet opens as a gender-swapped Hamlet: a Danish princess seeks vengeance after Claudius murders her father and seizes the throne. The protagonist quickly dies and is cast into a liminal, purgatorial realm between life and afterlife, past and future. A modern nurse named Hijiri joins the princess on a quest that blends medieval and contemporary elements. The journey examines the nature and consequences of revenge and interrogates whether responding to violence with violence sustains harmful cycles. The film draws on classic-literature motifs and modern themes of connection, identity, and shifting cultural relevance.
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