![]() Luhrmann’s combined aesthetic is established within a distinctive, created world, uniquely crafted and microscopically detailed, in which every piece of text and dialogue is an intertextual reference from almost the entire breadth of the Shakespearian canon. Luhrmann successfully collides the familiar (of verisimilitude) with the unfamiliar (of escapism), and meshes 1996 fashion, music and physicality with Elizabethan language, laws and social restraints. ![]() Ruptures in logic like Romeo’s bedroom near-miss are accepted by filmgoers conditioned to conventions of fantastical escapism alongside extreme verisimilitude. It’s inconceivable that Romeo is not caught : that’s what Red Curtain Cinema means.Įxtraordinary suspension of disbelief is a hallmark of Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film, William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet.
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