‘Shakespeare is so useless,â…

‘Shakespeare is so useless,’ complains pre-med scholar Paige Morgan in what may qualify as an in-joke, settled that she’s played by the sooner lady of the Shakespeare update. Here Julia Stiles leads what is essentially an conversion of Will’s 148th sonnet, which Paige reads in her college data pre-req: ‘O cunning Love! With tears thou keep’st me blind/Lest eyes well-seeing thy deprecatory faults should find.’ Go-getter Paige finds plenitude of foul faults in Eddie (Luke Mably), a preening metrosexual alien to the University of Wisconsin, but not alone does he prove himself an ace Bardic educate, he happens to be Danish royalty (like the heroine of a unchanging Shakespeare play whom Paige describes as ‘a total loser’) gone AWOL from his certified duties for the frolics of the American collegiate heartland. Coolidge’s movie is a feminist-leaning fairy-anecdote refreshingly centred on a driven junior woman in no requirement of rescue from any dungeon or drudgery, and Stiles confidently embodies a resourceful workaholic who, exchange for the inception yet in her memoirs, finds her ambitions in conflict with her emotions.