Through this movie adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, I was touched by the actors who took on the roles of the characters, and I could relate to them on a personal level. Romeo and Juliet are embodied by young actors, helping to capture the madness of the young in love, the rush of their passion for each other, and their rashness and recklessness.
Regarding the characters, I did not like the parents of the main characters because of their profuse, unreasoned hatred of each other, which was the main cause of the family grudge. Friar Lawrence’s deeds were ambiguous, but he was sincere and well-motivated that it was inadvertently destructive of the tragic people.
The plot continued to make sense in general, as it was the popular story of “two star-crossed lovers” in particular. They both were presented as being very much in love, without remarkable reasons about why, and it’s told in an instant. Therefore, the entire concept of love at first sight is being amplified rather than giving depth to the characters.
The dialogues strictly kept the language Shakespeare had originally used. This lent formality and added a suavity of literary quality. From time to time, the dialogues were forced, as they felt separated from personal experience. However, it didn’t work out exactly as I had hoped, but it captures wonderfully the same timeless and lyric-dominant themes through the use of old-fashioned language.
The pictures purely addressed the ideas of the balcony scene, the crowd scenes with blissful and violent moods, and the climax of Romeo and Juliet looking for each other a tombs.Key images like Juliet awakening to find Romeo dead and their entwined lifeless bodies were powerful and devastating in their tragic romanticism.