its the cast

Rating: 6/10 (10 January 2010)

The best part of this movie is the quality of acting (Patrol, Wilkinson, Affleck, Rush, Firth etc.). Next to that, the good screen writing. Obviously whoever wrote this script knows more about Shakespeare than all my children's children will ever know, as evidenced in the play-within-the-play structure and the combination of Romeo and Juliet themes with other Shakespearean plays. Another one of the reasons why this movie was so successful is the dramatization of character change (also pulled off my the golden cast), not too mention, the frequent plot twists. My favorite of these twists is when Patrol is still pretending to be Thomas Kemp on the early boat scene with Shakespeare and young Williams' reaction of homo-surprise. But let's not even get into gender discussions here...