Young people can be impulsive, especially when it comes to love. The film version of the play Romeo and Juliet directed by Baz Luhrmann revolves around this idea. Using carefully articulated film techniques during scenes, Luhrmann helps us to understand that impulsiveness is a key theme in this film. He also drives home a deep message that we should take from Romeo and Juliet about thinking about what we do and say. To start, during the Fish tank scene where Romeo meets Juliet we already see how vital the theme of impulsiveness is to the storyline. Dialogue is used to emphasise the importance of Romeo’s quick-acting behaviours. And Luhrmann uses Shakespeares’ dialogue to strike this idea into viewers, Romeo says “I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” at the first sight of Juliet. This demonstrates Romeo is impulsive. He came to this party to meet his past love Rosaline, and now he is already set on loving another girl who has never even talked to. Romeos’ impulsive nature is an essential theme to Romeo and Juliet, without it they wouldn’t have fallen in love. Luhrmann shows impulsiveness is …show more content…
Interestingly, in another scene where Romeo kills Tybalt we see Luhrmann's use of a closeup to show Romeos’ emotions before and after killing Tybalt. As Romeo screams in anger at Tybalt, we see the fiery fury in his fearsome eyes, it’s as if Romeo is blinded by rage. Quickly after he pulls the trigger of his gun realisation kicks in. His impulsive actions have changed his life forever now. We feel as though our heart sinks with his. We know our punishment, we will be banished from Vermont. This impulsive action from Romeo ends up completely altering his relationship with Juliet and changes the movie’s path. Luhrmann makes us feel Romeos’ strong emotions in this scene. We see the importance of thinking about our actions and what acting impulsively might do to