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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Romeo + Juliet
flobiwan — 9 years ago(April 30, 2016 06:37 AM)
I just watched this film for the 2nd or 3rd time having a passing familiarity with the play and i just noticed that Romeo was pining for another woman at the beginning. I always thought that he had already seen Juliet and that's who he was referring to when he said he was in love.
To be honest, that kind of lowers my opinion of Romeo a bit. How do we know that what he felt with Juliet was true love? If he could have such strong affections for Rosaline the way he was waxing poetic at the beginning and then immediately abandon them when he sees Juliet, how do we know that, if they had lived, he wouldn't have fallen in love with some other girl 6 months later? -
preachcaleb — 9 years ago(May 11, 2016 11:47 AM)
I don't remember if it was in the movie, but in the play, the Friar even calls Romeo out on this.
"Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!
Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,
So soon forsaken? Young men's love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes."
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SenoritaTorres — 9 years ago(July 08, 2016 06:33 AM)
This has been debated a lot. It does annoy me that Romeo was so besotted with another woman at first because some argue it does cheapen his love for Juliet and make you question everything. However, for me, I think Rosaline was infatuation more than anything else. At the time of hearing of Juliet's death Romeo genuinely could not go on living without her. He didn't have Rosaline at the start and she didn't want him but he was still somewhat coping, just melancholy. He may have thought it was love, until he met Juliet.
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TheCommenteer — 9 years ago(November 26, 2016 10:43 PM)
The whole thing reeks of teen stupidity. Kids are overly dramatic idiots and will enact stupidity even just to prove a point. The whole plot of Romeo and Juliet is a fantastic snapshot of stupidity of youth and age, and a terrible love story.