Shakespeare in Love- August 27, 2008 @ 5:00pm

John Madden's Shakespeare in Love starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes is a beautiful abstract display of Romeo and Juliet. It takes the life of young playwright William Shakespeare and illustrates the mental and physical process he must go through when creating a play (in this case Romeo and Juliet). I simply loved this movie because it showed who Shakespeare really was, giving us as viewers a chance to see him as a real human being with all the human characteristics of love, imperfection, and utter reality. This is truly an educational piece because it helped me as a future English teacher to understand how a director can take a deep, meaningful, often misunderstood play, and create a heart-warming, realistic, modern box office hit. It provides issues of race, gender, politics, economy, and love that we all have to deal with today.