Chaos In Romeo And Juliet

In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet movie adaptation, the director shows the length chaos will go by incorporating a variety of effects during the prologue. For example, the director, Baz Luhrmann has chosen canted angles that are used continually throughout the prologue, creating unbalance and playing onto the theme of impulsivity and how it creates unbalance in one's life. It evokes disorder and uneasiness in the scene, which is something that happens throughout the love story of Romeo and Juliet. Their love story causes disorder in their lives, and the lives of society, as well as uneasiness within themselves as they try to figure out how to love each other without being forced to be away from each other. Chaos is seen in these opening scenes from the canted angles, but as well as the fast jump
These types of angles and cuts construct distance between characters and add to the depth of the story, forcing the audience to be tense and unaware of the next step the character is going to make. Furthermore, the first colors that the audience sees are blue and red, which creates the effect of chaos and tension in the audience and scene, which also foreshadows when the audience sees the feud these families have. These colors force the audience to think opposite, which is exactly what this story is about. The two sides, who are in a feud, seem to fall in love. The contrast of these colors creates tension and evokes certain emotions inside the audience, adding to the pressure of their lives. Additionally, symbolically speaking, red represents passion and lust, which is one of the many themes in this story. As the audience follows the journey of Romeo and Juliet, the passion that they have for each other is vividly seen throughout. The audience feels sympathy for these characters, thus adding to the effect of the twist later seen in the