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The power of three

The power of three

Dancing the macabre in Ti West’s MaXXXine trilogy

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Jul 11, 2024
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Shakespeare harnessed dark magic as old as time itself to cast a spell over the overreaching couple at the bitter heart of The Tragedy of Macbeth, led on by three witches wandering the moors. A story in which a woman is blamed for the downfall of man, which is about as biblical as it gets, indebted to the original sin.

Perhaps this eldritch power courses…

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