Moulin Rouge, which premiered in March at Chicago's Nederlander Broadway Theatre, is a flashy Parisian love story. Many people discuss whether the musical's love is in line with today's worldly values. And what I see more is the theme of the struggle between people and fate.
Much like Dumas' "La Traviata", Satine is Margaret, but Satine's happiness lies in the fact that she finally rejected the Duke and died beside the composer who understood her. Harold, the owner of the Moulin Rouge, said in the play: "We are too lowly to have love." This is the source of the fate doomed to tragedy. How many women with rouge and dust have lost their courage and confidence in love because they foresee the dust settled after the gorgeousness? We believe that good things never end, but the end is already in front of us. No matter how beautiful true love is, there will be a curtain call one day. But what is eternal and precious is that the heart and soul will not be changed by cruel fate, which echoes the come what may of 'Come what may, I will love you till my dying day.' In the life that was destined to be both true and fantasy, Satine still has to work hard to get rid of the shackles of fate and pursue the free love of the bohemian spirit. The connotation of this play is that nothing can overcome darkness, death and tragic fate except love for this suddenly blooming flower.
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