A review of the magical film Moulin Rouge

Rating: Null/10 (15 July 2001)

With it's sweeping screen shots, and lavish scenery, Moulin Rouge promises to take any viewer willing to let go of reality on a magical journey through love and Bohemianism. At first glance, the film does come across as being a bit grandious, yet after you actually allow the film to take you away, one will almost completely forget how shallow the exterior of the film is.
I was not exactly sure about Moulin Rouge when I finally went to see it. I had wanted to see it since I had first viewed the theatrical trailer. When the film started I thought to myself, ``This is gonna be worse than Romeo & Juliet.`` Suprisingly, once them film really got going, which in my opinion was when Christian downed the liquer with the green faerie on the lable and Bono and Gavine Friday's cover of ``The Children of the Revolution`` faded in, I knew that this film would be an experience I would not soon forget.
Of course, I have a deep passion for film and the innovative ways of contemporary film making. Therefore, I was immediately enticed with this film. Throughout Moulin Rouge, I felt as though I had gone to see a play on Broadway, it was simply that beautiful. I began to feel each characters struggles and flaws. In the end, I was a heartbroken as our hero, Christian was.
When, at long last, the curtain closed and the end credits began to flash dully onto the movie screen, no one moved. Of course, it was 12:45 at night, and only ten other people were in the theatre. Still, no one moved to leave, they only sat there, as though allowing what had just happened to fully sink in.
Moulin Rouge, unlike other love tragedies, such as Romeo & Juliet, did not even out in the end. Christian and Satine were not joined together in death. Instead, Christian survives, in a world where survival is all, writing, telling the world about his love for the most beautiful woman he had ever known. The woman who had first taught him to love, who had taken all hope from him, and had left him with only a memory. A memory that he would cherish forever. A memory that is Moulin Rouge.