Moulin Rouge
Although this film is not a Halloween themed film per se, the Orphic tones and descent deep into the Parisian underworld can not go unnoticed. Here, a simple idealistic young man, Christian (Ewan McGregor), arrives at a new city only to ultimately find despair. In the months upon settling in, the people he meets are like ghouls and goblins wanting to pray upon him. They slowly indoctrinate him to their world, and the first courtesan he meets, he falls in love with.
But this dancer, Satine (Nicole Kidman), is destined to be with another man even though a darker tragedy is set before her. The songs are bright while yet hiding a deeper meaning as the movie marches forward, to asking just what are the “Children of the Revolution” about. Although this product is meant to highlight a bright time in young Christian’s life, just what he feels in the end is solemn — as though it’s meant to show that just maybe, in the future a new bright spot to his life can appear.
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