ROMEO JULIET TAMIL MOVIE REVIEW TV

ROMEO JULIET TAMIL MOVIE REVIEW TV

From the movie's opening and closing images of a television screen from which a Shakespearean chorus in the guise of a TV news anchorwoman relates the вЂњfactsвЂќ of the star-crossed lovers' timeless tragedy, Romeo & Juliet is awash in a sumptuous assortment of iconography.

The story is conveyed through the strength of its images their easy familiarity grounds the Shakespearean language in a readily understandable context for modern viewers. It is a Shakespearean work thoroughly conceived for the screen (itself a modern mode of storytelling) and for an audience unfamiliar and/or impatient with the Bard's Elizabethan trappings. This Romeo & Juliet is a rich visual feast, besotted with the fervor of its acrobatic camerawork and kinetic staging and its mind-bending aggregation of unrelated but resonant fragments of 20th century iconography. The movie's appearance might more accurately be termed modern than contemporary, a stylized fabrication that defies the specifics of any one decade or locale. The film's setting is the mythical Florida town of Verona Beach, a surreal seaside melting pot of seedy decay and opulent extravagance. To begin with, the film's language remains all Shakespeare's, although it's spoken with decidedly American accents by actors who, for the most part, are more schooled in the ways of Hollywood than Stratford-upon-Avon. For Luhrmann's rendition is not so much a reconceptualization as a recontextualization of the 400-year-old play. If so, what a self-limiting miscalculation. Overhyped as the newest thing in youth culture retro-vogue, Baz Luhrmann's new film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet seems positioned to slip one past the Shakespeare purists and art aesthetes while building a base of support among the newbie MTV generation of star-crossed teens in love. Park your preconceptions at the door before entering.

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