romeo and juliet : the use of light

I think the way  Baz Luhrman uses light in Romeo & Juliet is very interesting. i think he has a purpose behind the different aspects of the viewing and light in different scenes. Every scene has something different about the lighting. in some scenes its darker to show more seriousness and in others its lighter to show peacefulness.  

In the scene where Tybalt kills Mercutio on the beach the lighting changes. At first they are on the beach and its very light and sunny then the fight starts. while they're fighting the wind picks up and music gets louder. when Mercutio is stabbed and says "a plague on both your houses" the clouds roll in and it gets dark. thunder starts and the waves get bigger then it starts to rain. i think Baz Luhrman did all this as if to show destruction. piece by piece things get worse the weather gets dark, Mercutio starts to die and the devastation grows. when he does this it has an impact on the audience like how the rain always makes things seem bad and clouds can represent fear. well when he puts this in with Mercutios death it makes the audience feel bad about whats going on.

i think this relates to the real world because when other things affect our emotions we dont really notice. at first i didnt realize how the bad weather impacted our lives. more and more i notice that on rainy days im more sad and sleepy and so are others. also on sunny days i more happy.

The Girl Who Chased the Moon

The Girl Who Chased the Moon is about a girl named Emily who goes back to an old town that her mother grew up in. When she arrives she is treated differently and has to unravel her mothers past to figure out why.  I think the only way for Emily to figure things out is by talking to people about what happened and that's a lot of work because not many people want to talk to her. An antagonist force that seems to be working against her is her grandfather (Vance) who doesn't seem to want to talk about her mothers (his daughters) past.


When Emily first realizes people are judging her based on what happened when her mother was there she wants to talk to Vance about it but since Vance is such an unusual character she can't seem to be casual with him at all.This frustrated her and she tried talking to any one about her mothers past. i think this would be a confusing thing for most people and the fact that Emily's mother is dead doesn't make it any better.

I think this relates to the world because everyone has been judged at some time or another. If your judged for how you look or how you act or even some of the things your parents did it's difficult to deal with. what some people don't understand is that people are not the same person as their parents. people have a whole life to make mistakes of their own and should never have to have the burden of their parents mistakes on their shoulders also.