A powerful, romantic story filled with everything a good play, which is a book, which is a movie needs. What am I talking about? Im talking about a book club maker, a mentor for many, and maybe a tear forcer for some: Romeo and Juliet. But I'm not talking about the play. I'm talking about the movie with Leonardo de Caprio in it (I don't remember the directors name). The movie showed Romeo and Juliet in modern time. What the movie did was it really expressed the love and violence that there is in the play to show that Romeo and Juliet is not just a stupid play that Shakespare wanted people to see, its a play that you should feel as well.
One thing that this movie made me feel was the talk about love, specifically young love. Romeo and Juliet weren't really even considered fully mature yet, yet their love seemed much more powerful than the average that we see today. People complain that young love isn't real love because they haven't really experianced the world for that long yet or they just haven't experianced love itself. What this movie made me realize is that the definition of young love is love as well as old love as well as strong love as well as weak love. Everyone is capable to love and to share love with another because love in a way is the liking someone over a period of time because of traits they have that you like.
Another thing this movie made me feel was that love and violence always exist together. Romeo and Juliet's love caused some violence to erupt like their deaths because their love caused them and the other Montagues and Capulets to do crazy things and one of the things was violence. Romeo and Juliet's love caused them to kill themselves because of the terrible luck of them both seeing the other dead. Also, love occured because of the violence. With the Montagues and Capulets doing violence towards each other, it was bound for love to step right in between all that violence.
Another thing this movie made me question is that is there such thing as a controlled fate? In the movie, Romeo, throughout the movie talks to the stars because he thinks the stars controll peoples fate. I'm christian and I believe that God knows everyones future, but can you decide on your own future? I think that Shakespare included the theme of fate in the story because of Romeo and Juliets love. Was it fate that brought them together or was it just coencidental love? Romeo probably thought that it was the stars that brought him and Juliet together and apart because it was such a powerful love at first sight that it couldn't have just been by accident. They were bound to be together.
Hatred is another thing in the movie because how much hatred do you have to have for someone to lead you to do violence against them. In the movie, when Mercussio was killed, you could see the danger and lust in Romeo's eyes when he was driving the car. You can also tell the amount of hatred Romeo had because he had just come from his own marriage with the love of his life and he was so mad, he prctically forgot all about it when he got revenge.
The movie was a very good example of how Romeo and Juliet should be looked at because, although all the gunslinging and extreme kissing may not seem to be in the play, it should be looked at as just as the movie is looked at. All the concepts of love and hatred and violence in the movie and play is very vital for the world to see the dangers, the excitement, and the extremes of these concepts because I'm sure that the world was and will always be flooding with many of the concepts shown in Romeo and Juliet.
