I have always heard of the famous Romeo and Juliet and knew the basic plot before ever reading or watching the play. This was the first time seeing the film of it and I found the storyline easy to follow. Two families (Montague’s and Capulet’s) hate each other but Romeo and Juliet love each other but they cannot be together, so they end up killing themselves. During scene one in the first act, I found it engaging when they opened with a fighting scene which helped me understand the family situation and the personalities of each character. As it moved into the second act, I thought it odd that as soon as Romeo meets Juliet they decide to get married as soon as possible. I thought it quite impulsive because they were not thinking it through. Especially since they are both so young, but I guess the time and culture is different from today. Most of the time I could follow along and understand what is happening even since the English is quite different than I am used to. I think watching the play made it easier to understand because I could see what was happening. It is harder to imagine the scenes when reading them when the vocabulary is not what I am used to reading. Closer to the end when Juliet follows the friars plan to fake her death to avoid marrying Paris, and hopefully see Romeo when she awakes, I found it predictable when the friar wrote an important letter to Romeo that was crucial for him to receive as soon as possible, only to have it not delivered by the messenger in time. Many fictional stories do this for the suspense so when I watched this happen, I knew it would never arrive. At the end of the story, I found it a bit dramatic that they both killed themselves because they could not cope with being apart. But then again, they were forced not to see each other. It made me feel sorry for Juliet especially because no one, not even her nurse who had always been there for her, was going to change their perspectives and listen to what Juliet had to say, and she was being forced to marry someone else unwillingly.