The show must go on!

Rating: Null/10 (18 May 2004)

I really liked this film because I had always been very interested in all the films based on the life on the early 20s. Furthermore, I love musicals, so Moulin Rouge is one of my favourite films. The plot is not very original, I know, but it is a lovely love story. I guess that the most interesting details on the film are those that reflect the thinking and the lifestyle at that time. "The show must go on," one of the sentences that appears several times along the film, shows that pure ambition: although Satine may die at any moment, she must not know it, as there's not spectacle without Satine, there's no money without spectacle so, even risking her life, her boss is always exhorting her to go on working, because the show must go on. Another interesting aspect is what is called in the film "the Bohemian Revolution," and how rich people that go to the Moulin Rouge to get fun usually looks down on people that believe in the principles of this "Bohemian Revolution." The class struggle and the fact that money and politic power may change even the plot of the spectacle are a proof of the social inequality in the complex Paris of the early 20s.