Not to see only once

Rating: Null/10 (29 April 2003)

I have to admit that the first time I saw this movie, I didn´t really understand it. It was not organized, and made me a little dizzy. I thought "how can you convert a classic story into a contemporary movie?". After I saw again, and looked into it, you see that what Baz Luhrmann did was give this story a surreal feel to it, without taking away the essence of the words of Shakespeare, and you can see that any other way of doing this film, wouldn´t had been such a success. In my opinion, although Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio are not very critically acclaimed actors, in this movie they made me feel the depth of the words the were pronouncing, and you can see into the director´s imagination on his own version of this classic. I think it´s a great film, and has successfully combined a great cast, a marvelous director a great soundtrack into a modern look on this great love story.