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The two most prominent themes in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet are the juxtaposing themes of
love and hate
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Luhrmann has cleverly transformed this play from the renaissance period to the modern day,
showing the contrast between Verona in the two eras
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The prologue opens the film and is immediately confronting to the audience
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The words are then repeated through a montage
of urban violence
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This
scene introduces hate in an exciting way which will stimulate the audience including fire which is
used repeatedly as a pathetic fallacy associated with this theme
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‘Love at
first sight’ is there presented in a fully legitimate way
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Although love would
traditionally be juxtaposed to tragedy the two themes find themselves side by side for the duration
of the film, finally ending with the greatest tragedy of all, the death of four young people including
Romeo and Juliet
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The two themes are then fused at the climax of the film, when Friar Lawrence agrees to unite the
couple
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Will love end the feud? Will hate conquer all? Will both families find a happy medium?
Luhrmann does, as did Shakespeare, leave these questions unanswered by the play itself so that,
perhaps, the audience can answer them for themselves
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Love creates and hate
destroys
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These themes appeal to us
as they are highly emotive and the audience can relate them to personal experiences

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