A Very Well-Read film

Rating: 10/10 (3 January 2000)

It's a shame that any living person would ever look at this movie and think it to be overrated. Upon second viewing, I was even more overjoyed that this film was lucky enough to win Best Picture, for it proves the Academy really does pay attention.
As a movie, perhaps not everyone can love this film, but if you've actually read any Shakespeare, even just a little bit, the film seems that much more clever. The more Shakespeare you know, the more references in the film you're going to get, and the more impressed you're going to be.
It's an interesting hybrid, in the days of Post-Modernism when more movies are just referencing other movies. But as the intelligentsia of the theatre continues to invade cinema-- American Beauty, Titus-- it shows that "clever" is not dead in the movies.
History will decide.
10/10