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I just got back from seeing the movie of The Phantom of the Opera. I've never seen the stage production, so I went in without anything to compare it to except a few encounters with various performances of some of the songs.
It's a visually magnificant production, and the voices are quite good, particularly Emmy Rossum, who plays Christine. A few scenes, such as the opening of the chandelier being pulled up, and the Don Juan sequence ("The Point of No Return") were arresting.
But ultimately it fell flat for me.
I'm afraid that when it comes right down to it, I have little sympathy -- much less a vulnerability to romantic fantasy -- about obsessive, dysfunctional, controlling lovers, however charismatic and mysterious.
It's a visually magnificant production, and the voices are quite good, particularly Emmy Rossum, who plays Christine. A few scenes, such as the opening of the chandelier being pulled up, and the Don Juan sequence ("The Point of No Return") were arresting.
But ultimately it fell flat for me.
I'm afraid that when it comes right down to it, I have little sympathy -- much less a vulnerability to romantic fantasy -- about obsessive, dysfunctional, controlling lovers, however charismatic and mysterious.
