Romeo and Juliet is a story about love and hatred. Which are the total opposites of each other. Put both of them together, and it makes any situation bloody, and violent. But in the midst of all this fighting Romeo and Juliet young, and have nothing but love for each other. Is this a bad thing?
Love is very fragile. Anything you are told can easily break you. There are gonna be people who want you together, and people who do everything in their power to break you apart. But if it's true, nothing can tear you down. You'll be able to withstand everything and anything. If you have to second guess yourself, then it's probably not meant to be. Because if it is true, you just know.
Can young people be in love? Or do they just think they are? For me, it's both. I think anyone, no matter what you're age is, can be in love. I just think when you're younger, you're very selfish. And to be in love, you have to think of someone else before yourself. You can't be self centered, you have to put their happiness before yours. But I also think since we are self centered, we can't be in love. We might think we are, but we're probably not. Especially because for us, looks are what matter most. So we're not in love with the person and their personality. We're in love with the way they look or how popular they are.
Baz Luhrmann did amazing job portraying love and hate together. He shows how easily things can fall apart, and how easily things can fall together. He put the movie into a modern time to show us how this may relate to our lives, and how fast we can fall if it's true and meant to be. Even though I didn't understand everything they were saying, Luhrmann made their actions, chemistry and body language clear so you can understand what was going on. He used the settings to really help what was happening in the scenes. "While Luhrmann had faith in the relevance of the story, he knew that to reach out to a new audience he would have to make it hip and sexy. That meant a dramatic setting, an analogy for the originial violent, Verona."
