Think your safe? Think again!

Rating: Null/10 (4 June 2001)

I'd say I'm as much of a manly man as a man can be. Shed a tear at a movie? Not a chance! But Moulin Rouge almost got me....almost.
As people have said, there's really nothing on the surface to entice people to watch this movie. Why? Women dancing around in fancy 19th century dresses just don't capture peoples' interest as does the attack on Pearl Harbor or green animated ogres named Shrek. If only they could somehow take a piece of the story that you find inside this movie and advertise it on the outside....
It's clever, it's unique, it's stunning. It's art for your eyes and for your mind. The stage is colorful and spectacular. Like fireworks. You feel as though you were right there in small city where people go to sin. The music is humorous at times, yet never changes the tone of the story--not even for an instant--because each song was so nicely and appropriately composed and placed. It's an incredible love story, in which Satine and Christian must deal with tremendous adversity to be together. Not since Estella and Pip in the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens could you feel that two people belonged together so much, yet having so much to overcome. It's a wonderfully happy ending, and at the same time, a sad ending. I have never been so engulfed in a movie.
Technically speaking, this movie has "Oscar" written all over it. Truly one of the greatest movies I have ever seen.