Spoiler alert! Do not read if you have yet to catch this brilliant movie.


Finally, I've finally watched Moulin Rouge. And it definitely lives up to its name. One of the most romantic, though not in the saccharine sweet way, movies ever. And I'm glad that Satine (Nicole Kidman) dies in the end. I think that's what makes it so romantic. I mean, if she doesn't and there is a *cringe* happy ending, everyone would just roll their eyes and the movie will suck! Though I think we all secretly want happy endings, we just hate it when it happens because it is not real at all.

I loved the elaborate design of the Moulin Rouge set, the intricate designs all over the giant elephant, the rich colours - velvet red and gold; the costumes and the pretty jewelleries all over Satine. And Nicole Kidman is just so pretty. I like her nose. Funny how she was the only pretty girl in Moulin Rouge though. The rest are all just scary.

My favourite scene is near the end when the show was on and Christian and Satine, both in tears, stumbles onto stage by accident. He brutally insults her in front of the audience and leaves the stage, and Satine tries to call out to him and explain things by singing their song. It's so emotional and desperate, and when Ewan McGregor's character finally responds, the relief in her face is so precious. I love how they use a song to express so much, how the song took away the need for words and explanation. How that song is like their secret code. How they almost, so painfully, lost their love each other in spite of their insane love and this song pulls them out of it and binds them back together.

And then she dies, in the arms of her lover.

*exhales

Is that not just so devastatingly romantic?


Then I'll write a song. We'll put it in the show and no matter how bad things get or whatever happens, whenever you hear it or when you sing it or whistle it or hum it then you'll know what it'll mean. It'll mean that we love one another.
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