...But to rejoice in splendour...

I was sitting around and finally turned on the TV. This itself is a revelation, because up until yesterday, I had not watched more than a hour of TV since Dec. 23 (After coming back from my trip to India.) It wasn't a new years resolution or anything, I just didn't want to "participate" in wasting my time watching really nothing on. If the TV was ever on, it was to watch some movies I had to catch up on, such as the Motorcycle Diaries and Twilight Samurai.

The Fox Movies network (or something like it) was playing a back to back to back Romeo + Juliet (which I caught half of the second set and the first half of the third set). The is the 1996 version, which is very stylized and exuberant.

I hardly remember Romeo + Juliet, or even reading the play in High School, but watching it yesterday and processing the lines was actually fun. The best line, and no wonder society calls the true romantic Romeo:

Rom. Then move not while my prayer's effect I take.
      Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purg'd.  [Kisses her.]
Jul.   Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
Rom. Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urg'd!
      Give me my sin again.                          [Kisses her.]

You can read the full play at Project Gutenberg

I also realized that we never realize the opportunity of greatness or appreciate art in all its form while we were younger, at least I didn't. I also don't recall this movie even though I watched it during my teen years. I can't believe it didn't leave an impression/memory on me.