Besides being men, these characters are also members of a military unit, which additionally affects both physicality and psychology. Not only are there a lot of stereotypes in our culture regarding the ways in which men in the military behave, the military experience is one so far removed from our own, it is rather easy to fall into these stereotypes as a shortcut for understanding. We each had to conduct our own research into what it meant for each of our characters to be a fighter. Our director shared a TED talk with us from filmmaker Deborah Scranton, where she discusses her documentary The War Tapes. While the clips revealed the visuals the soldiers encounter in a war zone, the commentary drove home the complicated controversy soldiers often find themselves navigating. Where does one find morality in war? Is the good soldiers can do overshadowed by the more appealing sensationalism of horrid conditions, such as those practiced at Abu Ghraib? Can any amount of good make up for or balance issues of murder, torture, and sexual assault? Malcolm tests Macduff’s loyalty and morality by claiming that he will be a worse tyrant than Macbeth. Macduff has to decide how far he is willing to go to stop Macbeth. When stopping evil, how much evil is permissible in return?
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