"Did my heart love 'til now? Forswear its sight. For I never saw true beauty 'til this night."
Romeo
Romeo + Juliet
1996
"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo"?....oh come on.. you've all heard it, some of you might have even said it. Prince Charming, Romeo, The King of the World, The Frog; we enlist at such an early stage in life that love has to be found, not planned in fairytale fantasies. We provoke thought that love is a standard to a fulfilled life. Yet, love doesn't have to be just that; love should be more than that.
Shakespeare was a hopeless romantic; one that found turmoil and obstacles in desires and fallacies within the concept of own's inner perserverence.
I, like those who enjoy language found a profound beauty in the way in which words were pronounced and expressed in Shakespeare's writings. Words mean more than sometimes the message we try to convey. Words are beautifully spoken when well received. Words are the stories we create for our generations to come.
As we look into love on a grander scale; we enlist the historical ways that love has left for the imagination of the hopeless romantic.
Perhaps the long awaited tryst of Romeo + Juliet was about patience and virtue; yet, the anomaly to this, is that forbidden love was the hardest to define. It takes me back to perception; it takes me back to actualization that sometimes those we are in love with, and those that we are far out in left field with, are just tests in inner thougth. We stop going up to bat because we fear we might strike out; we might be rejected. So we hesitate and ignore our end game.
Imagine a time when you found love in the most unrealistic circumstance.
You may have been fascinated or intrigued with a celebrity, or a powerful leader perhaps, even an athlete. Maybe you were infatuated with someone you never met, however, you feel you knew so much about them because our world is an information highway. The Internet has blown up the ideals surrounding love and dating, people can claim to be whomever, and whatever, they wish they can be. In the world of technology, we can deceive or hide our insecurities through the form of text messaging and instant messaging; even email. We hide behind our feelings; just like books and stories hide behind the authors challenges.
Has love become robotic? Are we starting to forbid ourselves from face to face interaction because we know the outcome?
What drew me to this film was the over-abundance of poetic language and intervention. The power of love that drew the chase, the desire, the hunt for time, and togetherness in two people. Romeo, like Juliet knew they had a forbidden love, they knew they couldn't show their love without feeling recourse or banishment from their families, so it had to end together, on eachother's terms.
Just how do we acknowledge that love and tryst and approval and rejection are all in the same category of relationships?
Some way or another, the love that powered Romeo and Juliet, powered the thought that life couldn't go on without one another. In all actuality, were Romeo and Juliet fools? Were Romeo and Juliet blinded by the fact that love is up for interpretation, and that the power of knowing love, living love, and conquering love is just that and more?
"Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn." - Romeo
Maybe Shakespeare knew that we challenge ourselves when we are most weak. Maybe Shakespeare realized that the weakest moments are the most thought out desires that bring our reality to existence. Love creates may of mixed emotions, love enlists many of most idiotic acts. As we ponder love, compare our love to those characters in film and story; we underestimate the power of love and how little we really do know about it. We underestimate that we think we know what we want out of love; and are just forbidden to share it.
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