Letters to a Failed, Suicidal Teenager really not a good idea. The new film “Letters to Juliet” is a sappy romantic comedy based on the real-life wall in Verona, Italy (setting of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet) where people write letters to FICTIONAL 14-yr old Juliet and ask for advice. Really?
Now I get Hollywood will use anything for a film plotline, but can we back up to the people who write letters to Juliet? We’ve all had a broken heart and probably written a weepy, pathetic letter than should never see the light of day. I have. More than once. But at no time did I ever think Shakespeare’s Juliet was a beacon for advice. One night at a party, a boy, a balcony, a bad messenger and suicide. Lindsay Lohen has had a better run than Juliet.
Next thing I know Jane Eyre fans will be writing Bertha. No one knows love advice like the poor insane woman who was locked in an attic her whole life.
Letters to fictional women could be something positive. But leave to us to choose the most inexperienced, sad, lonely, dying literary examples. Why not letters from Elizabeth Bennett or Rosalind from As You Like it. No, it has to be the damn, young dying ones.
