The premise of this film is that Romeo dumps Rosaline for Juliet. The original play tells us that Rosaline didn't even love Romeo in the first place. He wanted her, but she rejected him and took a vow of chastity in stead. The writers have completely changed the story of the source material. A retelling is when a story is told either again or differently. But it should still be the same story (i.e. Same story told through the pov of a different character than the main one(s)). This is not the same story. They'd be better off calling it a reimagining. Give the characters different names and costumes and give the film a different title and completely different setting/circumstances and it would be the same film.
Didn't watch it on that basis alone. It makes no sense. Sounds like, at best, alternate universe fanfiction.
Didn't watch it on that basis alone. It makes no sense. Sounds like, at best, alternate universe fanfiction.