Cinema Slut Reviews: Shakespeare In Love

October 14, 2008 at 6:21 am (cinema slut reviews) ()

 

In this somewhat comedic love story, Gwyneth Paltrow stars as Viola, with Joseph Fiennes playing the role of William Shakespeare. Since females are disallowed to join plays alongside men, Viola, an aristocrat, disguises herself as a boy in order to be able to perform in theater. Shakespeare is a struggling writer who is undergoing a severe case of writer’s block. However, a meeting with Viola helps turn his disastrous play, “Romeo and Ethyl, the Pirate’s Daughter,” into the beloved “Romeo and Juliet.”

Viola and Shakespeare fall inlove and their love affair is so romantic, you somehow forget that they are actually both cheating on their significant others. Nonetheless, this ending isn’t your typical happy conclusion. Despite the depth of their love, like all great love stories of our time, they really couldn’t be together.

Watch it with a boyfriend your parents hate. Or one you can’t be seen together in public.
It hits too close to home.

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Cinema Slut Reviews: A Love Story

October 14, 2008 at 5:28 am (cinema slut reviews)

I have watched “A Love Sory” about three times, the first time, about a year ago. I hated it then. It showed female doctors to be spinsters who were smart enough to get into medical school but dumb enough to fall for a married man.

I was afraid it hit close too home.

By the third time I saw it, a couple days ago, I had a complete turn-about. I started to see the beauty of the plot. There was a poignancy to the roles that all three portrayed. Despite Aga Muhlach being the stereotypical philandering husband, Angelica Panganiban was not the typical housewife who usually get cheated and neither was Maricel Soriano the typical seductress-who-waits-in-her-bed-as-the-husband-sneaks-out-of-the-house kind of mistress in her role as the older Obstetric-Gynecologist who had a deep emotional affair with a married man.

I don’t really have any more flowery words to say about the movie except that I love it.

Watch it.

A Love Story

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