Film Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet

The version I watched was made in 2013 and directed by Carlo Carlei. They changed the original language around a little bit but mainly kept it the same. It was set in the same setting as the original play, Verona, Italy. I thought it was very true to the original play, I thought Juliet acted very much how a teenager would act and Romeo more like an experienced bachelor which I thought was good. The adaptation stayed true to the rivalry of the Montagues and the Capulets and a lot of the characters acted the same as they would in the play. I did think that Benvolio would be older but he looked like a little kid in this adaptation of the play. The movie was released in the UK so the accents were British although there is a little bit of Italian spoken. The language also stayed the same mostly but they did change around a few words into modern English which I thought was cheeky yet smart and it mixed modernality with originality and I thought that this version did a great job of that. 

Compared to the play I thought it was quite similar to how Shakespeare would have filmed it and directed it which how you would want a work by Shakespeare to be like. Overall I did like the adaptation a lot. I liked it because the characters stayed true to how Shakespeare made them, Also unlike what a play would offer, the movie offered a musical score that took the emotions of these two lovers and they handed them to you through music which I thought was just so well done and so beautiful. The music conveyed more emotion in my opinion than the characters themselves did, or might I say, the music assisted the emotions being portrayed by the characters but sometimes so peaceful and sorrowful and beautiful that it made you feel something more than what the characters themselves with no music would have made you feel which I think was just so well done. Overall the film impressed me and to me is more Than the panned ratings it got, I thought the characters were original which I liked and no one tried to mess around with them and I thought the score was just absolutely beautiful and I think that was my favorite part of the film. If you want a truly beautiful, emotional film adaptation of the play that makes you feel something more than I reccomend this highly.