In the film, there is a scene after Hamlet goes to England. It is of Ophelia and how she has changed since her father’s death. She looks as I would have expected. Rugged, uncombed hair, dress with stains all over it, and this look in her eyes that shows sadness and madness. She sings as if it were a chant. Handing out “flowers” but in reality they’re really just sticks and straws of grass. Ophelia’s mood goes from happy to sad in a matter of seconds, repeatedly. Almost as if she were bi-polar. This is the scene where it clarified what Ophelia might have actually been like. Hamlet, has fallen in love with this girl, or so he says he has. She is the daughter of Polonius, they call her Ophelia. Ophelia is very young, beautiful, and genuine.
