After watching both Le Boheme and Rent my overall opinion is that were both really good, but I like Rent more. Seeing Le Boheme was a great experience and the sets were amazing. However, it was very hard follow and to understand, not only because it was in Italian but because since we were so high up I couldn’t see there lips moving so most of the time I didn’t even know which character was speaking. The movie Rent was very enjoyable to watch. I was able to understand and see the relationships between the characters better. I think this is partly because the setting takes place in NYC in the 80s. I also really like the songs in movie becuase they really help me follow the story.
Both the movie and opera had similaries to each other. Starting from the beginning when Mimi went to the man’s room with a candle. She went in needing her candle to be lit but then blew it out and “lost” something so that she can build a relationship with him. The background of the characters are also similar because they are both very poor and were behind on their rent. There were also a lot of differences. Since they were in a different time period, Mimi’s sickness were different. In the movie, Mimi was an addict and was dying from AIDS, while in the opera Mimi was dying from TB. Another difference was that in the movie Mimi was very close to death but then didn’t die, while she actually died in the opera.
While both were very good to watch, I would watch the movie Rent again and not the opera. The movie was easier to follow and I was able to following the meaning of the story, while watching the opera I was lost majority of the time.
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