Moulin Rouge

In music class today we watched the movie Moulin Rouge, a movie I've never seen before which is something I regret. To put it simply: I found this movie to be excellent! It was just so cliché in so many ways, yet very tastefully done. Naturally, without an excellent soundtrack this movie would be nothing, but Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor are what really brought this movie to life with their spectacular singing and great acting. In a way, it's kind of depressing watch the romance between their characters develop since it's straight out stated in the beginning of the movie that Satine is going to die, but perhaps that just strengthens the emotional effect this movie had on me. Certain scenes dragged on a bit too long for my tastes and as much as I liked the film, the ending was a slight disappointment. My emotional response to this would have been so much stronger if in the end, Christian would have been left in doubt about whether or not Satine really did love him. As the plot was nearing the climax, I actually had hope for such an ending, but they had to "ruin" (ruin in quotation marks because the real ending isn't bad either) the ending for me.

A movie about a young man seeking for love and finding it, only to have the woman he loves die: it's a truly heartbreaking story and although such a plot would be pretty hard to completely screw up, Moulin Rouge exceeded all my expectations. I don't really watch many movies, but there are certainly worse ways to spend two hours than watching Moulin Rouge, especially if you haven't seen it before.