Moulin Rouge Review

Overall I really liked Moulin Rouge even though it was very quirky and funny it had an underlying more serious theme to it. The theme was that the greatest gift of all is to love and be loved in return. Overall the the mood as well as the tone is very tragic even though it is comedic a lot of the time. The way Baz Luhrmann portrayed that into the movie was something I am not usually used to. They used comedy to get serious a point across which made me want to pay more attention to the movie because sometimes when things are too serious I just get overwhelmed and then I lose interest.

The different filming techniques that Luhrmann used in the film were used extremely strategically. At the beginning of the film you see a curtain and a stage and as the movie begins the camera pans into the screen and makes its way through the city. This has a very inviting feel to it and it makes you feel as though you are part of the story. In other parts of the story you see the camera pan out and see things that are extremely unproportionate to the story. For example, the gun hitting the Eiffel Tower and the hats flying up in the air out of Moulin Rouge. This gives the viewers a nice little break in the intense story line and makes Moulin Rouge feel like a fictional place.

Another great cinematic technique Luhrmann uses is the use of semi-recent music in a time before any of that music was created. The time period used was the 1800's but most of the music used was music from the late 1900's. It gives the movie a timeless feel as though the Moulin Rouge is a place that is so amazing it's out of its time zone. I also think it symbolizes that love stands throughout time and that the different music represents that timeless feel.