In Baz Luhrman's version of Romeo and Juliet, he uses three elements to really elevate the quality of the movie. The element that I was tracking was his use of water, and his intentional use of it in the movie.
     Whenever we see water, something important is about to happen. It's how we first meet Romeo and Juliet- Romeo, forlornly smoking a cigarette by the ocean, Juliet in her bathrobe washing her face in t sink. He does many shots of the character's faces from the bottom of the water if the characters are in the pool, or dunking their faces in the sink. It is also a major part of the scene where Romeo first spies Juliet- through a fishtank that separates the bathroom sinks from another room. In the first part of the movie, water plays a very positive element in the movie.
     Towards the end of the movie, however, water takes on a darker, scarier part of the movie. The turning point is the scene where Mercutio is shooting bullets into the water- it has kind of an ominous edge, that scene, and from the on water become darker. It begins to rain heavily after Mercutio dies, and it continues all the way through Romeo's banishment takes effect. After that, whenever any scene is ominous, or sad, or violent, it either begins to rain or water is in someway there.