windswept ∞

I have just watched Moulin Rouge! after like a month of its sitting in my films-to-watch folder and it is incroyable! It’s freaking hilarious! (Lots of innuendos too…) The numbers were wildly entertaining. And the songs and mash-ups! Man, the composer of this film is brilliant. I’m not a big crier during movies but freaking hell did I so want to cry! My review on Rotten Tomatoes goes something like…

With marvelous songs, entertaining dance numbers and a cast of wildly colourful personas, Moulin Rouge! glimmers with an inexplicable charm that boggles and assaults the senses at first and then captures them with a vivid passion. The film takes the concept of “star-crossed lovers” into a whole new level without overstepping the boundaries of respectable entertainment. Romantic without getting schmaltzy, tragic without being pessimistic, the romance explored in the dynamic of Montmarte’s underworld during the turn of the century is imaginative and fresh, comical yet suffused with splendid parallels.

…which is just a lot of that film critique bullshit but nonetheless I indulge in. Film critiquing is not an easy business though, but it makes me challenge myself through writing.