Shakespeare in Love

I found Shakespeare in Love a very interesting tale. It is, of course, based off of the life of Shakespeare focusing on the time when he was writing Romeo and Juliet. The story starts out with a little bit of a background on the theatre of the time and the two theatres striving for the public’s eye. You then meet the characters in their own settings, giving a little about each character. As the story progresses you learn that Will Shakespeare has lost his touch in writing stories. After receiving a gift he comes upon a story that throughout the movie morphs into Romeo and Juliet. It starts out as a comedy to help one of the theatre owners pay off a dept. Will Shakespeare tells the theater owner to start finding actors. While at a party Will meets the lovely Viola De Lesseps, who is the daughter of a wealthy gentleman. Unbeknownst to Will, Viola is the young man who Shakespeare wants to play Romeo in his play. So the story becomes a comedy to the audience as Viola tries to keep up her appearance as a lady and as the young actor. All the while Viola’s father has promised her to Lord Wessex, who is just marrying her for her father’s money. As the love story advances Will and Viola have a Romeo and Juliet romance; falling in love when they know they can never be together. To me, the movie romance story reminded me of the movie The Moulin Rouge, mainly because there are two people in love that cannot be together because of the time and situation. Well without giving away the whole movie, it ends in an expected, yet unexpected way (if that makes any sense at all!!). It is expected in the way a tragic love story would end but unexpected in the Hollywood aspect of a love story ending. Well that is basically the story without too much detail, I hope, and I did enjoy watching it and would probably recommend it to some, depending on their likes.