One of my favorite movies!

Rating: Null/10 (24 June 2013)

Shakespeare in Love is a film that you can see and feel the brilliance at the very start of the picture and it enchants you to a state of delight. The screenplay is the picture. It's an ideal screenplay that is unexpected to be so enthralling and clever. The film celebrates Shakespeare's life, explores his greatest writing achievements, most obviously being Romeo & Juliet, but other iconic pieces get a few homages. Fiction life imitates art so wonderfully, you could fool a naive man with a claim this was a fact-by-fact biography. Any theater/English influenced person could easily wish this story the way it all actually happened. It uses real-life fact to build the fiction, and it's still a hilarious, romantic movie to watch.
Mirroring Romeo & Juliet for most of the film, Shakespeare in Love gets to explore ironies of social issues at the time and the "truth and nature of love". This film sets an example to non- artists, an artist's inspiration for their work. One of the easiest routes for producing wonderful writing, music, or paintings is love. Shakespeare in Love is one of the few romantic films that actually is completely successful in capturing love. Some say, you must go back to Shakespeare's original works to acquire great acting or truth in theater or entertainment, and Shakespeare in Love does successfully allow the lead couple act out Romeo & Juliet, but it also sets a precedent that all you need is good writing making romance and narrative just as tantalizing as the classics. A good deal of fun can be had by the audience watching Shakespeare in Love, it's also contains moments of hilarious comedy. But Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet, and this movie prove Judi Dench's character, Queen Elizabeth, wrong on love, who claim that true love can never be captured in the theater.
Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow dazzle in the depth of their strong characters and passionate romance. Paltrow has such powerful charm and lovability behind Viola and Fiennes creates a great depiction of the most popular scribe in history. Judi Dench's cameo is a wonderful addition. The costumes are a degree above other period piece's clothing design, enriched in creativity and elegance. The sets and cinematography are beautiful, the editing breaks down the wall of the viewer's imagination, and its underlined with a romantically epic musical score. The director, John Madden, makes all the risky components of a film with so many intricacies into a sweeping masterpiece, that's hard to sit through without smiling and even harder to leave with tears. Rating: 10/10; Grade: A+.