Film Review

FILM REVIEW

Romeo & Juliet


The traditional story of Romeo and Juliet has been created many times, into award winning theatre productions. This classic tale has been experimented by many directors in an attempt to change an ordinary love saga, into an award winning box office hit. They have been presented in many forms to attract a variety of audiences all but with one thing in common, it tells us the story of how a teenage girl by the name of Juliet, and the daughter of the Capulet's falls in love with a teenage boy, Romeo the son of the Montague’s, only till they realise that they are the children of each others enemies. So in an attempt to triumph over their parents’ hatred for each others’ families, and for the sake of their un-dieing love, they depart this life to overcome it. This review looks at the more modern movie of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by Baz Luhrmann.
From the beginning of the play, which opened with a newsreaders face on a television screen to de...