An Acid Trip While Having the Flu

Rating: 1/10 (21 August 2014)

This movie is one of only two that I hate most. I love musicals. That is why I hate Moulin Rouge. Moulin Rouge is emblematic of everything in modern culture that is flashy, maybe even entrancing on the outside, and empty and meaningless. I think what I hate most about this movie is its pretentiousness. Changing form masquerades as substance. This movie is a caricature of modern life and the worldview of those who are brain-dead materialists. If you want to get my attention and keep it, you better have 1.) heart and 2.) brains. Moulin Rouge has neither. I would not call Moulin rouge a musical. I would consider it an attempt at extreme exaggeration by someone knowledgeable in conformity, illusion and hypnosis. In that sense, it may be an important movie, psychologically and sociologically.