Moulin Rouge!

Hahaha I made Nina watch this over the weekend and I made her cry.

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Metaphors: 

The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

Without trust there is no love.

Jealousy will drive you mad.

There are powers greater than love.

Forbidden love.

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Tropes:

The main tropes in the movie is Love and Despair

Love:

• Christian’s obsession with love
• Satine and Christian
• Christian’s love for writing
• Forbidden love
• The Moulin Rouge

Despair:

• Satine’s illness (TB)
• The Moulin Rouge
• The underlining sadness that carries through the whole film
• Prostitution
• Forbidden love
• The story
• Death

Hate:

• Unfairness
• Death
• The duke
• The Moulin Rouge
• Forbidden love
• Jealousy
• Rape

Fact:

• There are greater powers than love like sickness and death
• Falling in love with a prostitute will make you jealous
• Life is not always fair
• Things are not always the fairy tale you thought it would be.
• The Moulin Rouge