There's too many things about this movie that I love. The character studies, the maximalist approach to set and costume design, lighting choices. It's hyper-modern, it's mid-90s queer, it's larger than life and theatrical. It was insane I was allowed to watch this at 14. Can you even imagine what this does to a closeted teen? Do you know how this shaped my understanding of what films could even look like?
Astounding.
No one committed to film was ever as cool as John Leguizamo as Mercutio was.
