Romeo and Juliet is one of my favourite movies. I had previously watched the 1996 film with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, but the version we watched in class, in my opinion, is much better. Olivia Hussey, who plays Juliet, is one of my favourite actresses, so I have been meaning to watch this version for a while now. I haven’t fully read Romeo & Juliet, so it’s hard to tell if they did a good job including everything, but even if they didn’t, I would still find the movie incredible. Sometimes, I couldn’t fully understand what exactly they were saying because of the use of Elizabethan English, but I could still grasp an understanding most of the time. A few specific parts stuck out to me, and one of them is when Juliet awakens in the chamber and sees Romeo dead; her immediate thought is to join him. The specific quote “O happy dagger, / This is thy sheath.” was what made this scene one of my favourites. She references her body as the knife’s sheath (like a knife goes into a holder) and says she’s ready to die and be reunited with Romeo. She uses the word “happy” to describe the dagger and shows that death is the only way for her to be with him again. Another one of my favourite scenes is when Romeo sees Juliet at the party. I’m not sure how to feel about Romeo, since he easily switches from one woman to another, but I still find this scene really interesting and also cute. I loved watching this film, and I genuinely can see myself watching it many times again in the future. I also like that we watched the film before reading the book, because now I can picture the actors, their tones, and more. This will help me become more engaged and interested.