Topic > Hamlet Interpretation of Hamlet - 1520

In this way the phrases "I loved you once", "You shouldn't have believed me", "I didn't love you" appear next to each other. Bringing these emotional and contradictory messages so close together makes them seem less sincere. Furthermore, he says the line “I didn't love you” with much more deliberation, in contrast to Branagh's Hamlet who rushes through the statement very quickly. The lack of anger in Hawke's Hamlet makes it clear that this line came from rational thought rather than intense emotions. It sounds like he meant what he said. Ophelia in this version seems to take Hamlet's words more harshly than Ophelia does in Branagh's version. After Hamlet's words a clip of a jet in flight plays, before the camera cuts to Ophelia's face. The jet and its loud noise seem to express the shock that Ophelia feels, the buzz of different thoughts in her mind. She takes a long pause before turning her head and whispering, "I've been deceived even more." Interpreting "I love you not" as a true statement completely changes Hamlet's relationship with Ophelia, giving it a darker edge.