Article Response: Moulin Rouge

i rather enjoyed the movie which surprised me because i never thought much of baz's earlier work. i enjoyed the ending, it felt like the suitable end to an escapist romance. the suggested alternate ending would have made a rather lovely spectacle on film rather ugly.

I liked MR, but I thought it was dumb they had to kill the pretty girl in 2001, in Titanic the pretty boy got killed but then he was the poor nobody too and that movie was unmentionable, agony is too weak to describe it.

I thought Nicole Kidman's acting was cold and restrained, if I'd been casting I would have cast a black girl, cos that would have been such a kick, to see a black girl descend from the ceiling on a trapeze (Nicole's entrance scene) and everybody unanimously agree that she was the most beautiful in Paris WITHOUT QUESTION, and with no explanation ever in the movie; a great aesthetic moment, a testament to the triumph of art over life, very amusing and pleasurable, and also a comment on the actual important role of Africa in French art. And of course, with this initial unanimous suspension of disbelief (please don't pedestrianly point out to me that 'they wouldn't have to suspend their disbelief to think a black woman was beautiful') the english guys undying love for her would have been instantly believable.