“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” This lesson about life and love is just one of the many the movie Moulin Rouge has to offer its audience. Baz Luhrmann, director and co-writer of this wildly tantalizing musical extravaganza transports the viewers into a sensual underworld one would only expect to see in a fantasy. Some may argue, however, that the story’s simplistic, predictable plot …showed first 75 words of 1014 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1014 total…shock their viewers. Moulin Rouge is definitely a film someone will either love or hate, there is no in between. The inventive musical is a visual and musical masterpiece that makes up for the lack of a substantial or complex plot. People ought to see it and though some may feel as though they “ couldn’t wait to get off this Merry-go-round from hell” (Alan 1) others will want to see it over and over again.