Romeo + Juliet: An E Ticket Ride

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throughout the movie directing the
audience to understand and engage in the most famous love story in an entirely
new way. One can argue that this version of Romeo and Juliet would be
understood even without spoken words. The camera-work tells the story as
clearly as the text. There are very few moments in this movie when the camera
stops moving. Like Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers the editing is fierce
and in your face. There is little time to think as the perpetual images flash
across the screen. And it works. You become entranced and cannot wait to see
what happens next even if you are already familiar with the story. It feels new.
Like many contemporary Shakespeare productions, the text has been
slightly edited but this does nothing to dilute the story. The dialogue, for
the most part, is not delivered by master thespians, rather, we hear
contemporary film actors delivering the Bard's words as though this were present
day English in New York or Los ...

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