Tarkovsky on Hamlet

The most horrible thing for a person who senses that they are at a certain spiritual level is to lose it. Hamlet is about this very issue. in order not to break away from life, in order to live so as to be connected materially with this world, the Danish Prince had to lower himself to the level of the villains who lived around him in Elsinore. The tragedy is not in the fact that he dies, since death for him is an escape from his situation, but in the fact that although a spiritual man he becomes a murderer.