movie review-5 Romeo and Juliet

I’d like to write about the movie “Romeo and Juliet”. This movie and story is very famous and popular. I know there are two kinds of the movie of Romeo and Juliet. The first one, Olivia Hussey acts as Juliet. That is the old movie. I have watched this movie. That is the good movie and I like it. The other one, Leonardo DiCaprio acts as Romeo. This time I watch the latter one. I write about that.

This is interesting movie but I think the old one is better than the new one. This movie is arranged by the director so this movie is contemporary therefore both of the families Capulet and Montague are like a gang. They don’t have swords and they have guns instead of swords. I think the old one is better than the new one but story of Romeo and Juliet is very good. I like this story.

I think the reason why the Romeo and Juliet is popular is a story about forbidden love. The Capulet and the Montague hate each other and they often fight. Juliet is the only daughter of the Capulet family and Romeo is the only son of the Montagues so they should hate each other but in fact they love each other. I think almost all people like forbidden love because it is more attractive than normal love.

I think there is another reason of popularity of this story. It is the sad ending of this story. Most of the story and the movie ends with a happy or good ending but the ending of Romeo and Juliet is so sad. A person who watches or reads the Romeo and Juliet for the first time maybe want Romeo and Juliet to be happy. This unforeseen ending makes people impressed.

I think love of Romeo and Juliet is pure. Maybe it is third reason of popularity of this story. By the way, in fact I really like this story. I think this is the best story of stories of Shakespeare.
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