Product: Romeo and Juliet [Region 2] (1968)
Rating: 5.0
Is it Really True Love?
"Romeo and Juliet" directed by Franco Zeffirelli is the most true version of the classic Shakespear story. This story follows along so closely that you could take a scene and follow it along word for word in the book. In the beginning it feels like it is going to be another sappy love movie but when later find out that it is not typical of all love stories. I think that the director did an excellent job at showing the original story written by Shakespear. We see the same actions that are protrayed by Romeo in most love stories but the sneaking around by Romeo and Juliet makes it much more exciting than any normal sappy love film seen now days. As I get older, I realize that there is no true "Romeo" out there for me. We can all hope to find our "Romeo" but for most of us this is never going to happen. Romeo is shown as a character that dreams a lot. While the typical men of the town were out sword fighting Romeo was out picking flowers and chasing girls. Juliet is shown as more of an ignorant girl. She is out doing the typical girlish things. The relationship that Romeo and Juliet had is very unbelievable in the standards set today. Back in the days, when marriage happened at an early age, this situation seemed very realistic. The way Juliet and Romeo were sneaking around behind there parents back just to see each other was so sweet. While their familes forbidded them from being together they risked getting in trouble from there parents just to see each other. The nurse of Juliet is the only person who knows about Romeo and Juliet and their secret love for each other. I could not believe the fact that Romeo and Juliet went behind their families backs and got married. I think that if their parents would have known the truth about them it might have started a bigger fight than was already taking place. Just throughtout the film we see some of the family members die. Just because they are trying to protect their own families from each other. The only real thing that sets this story far from other love stories is the fact that Romeo and Juliet do not get to live happily ever after like the typical love story. I think that when Romeo sees his love laying there appearing to be dead, the shock of it being Juliet was enought to motivate himself to kill himself. Then when she awakes and sees her love dead she also deceides to kill herself. So the question can be asked to if they were really in love or was it just a little crush which lead them to think that it was true love. The way that this story was portrayed was incredible. I think they were in love but not in way that would last them for a lifetime. I really enjoyed this movie and I especially like it when they can take a story like this and make it into a movie that is extremely close to the original story.