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Unpredictable...that’s Chicago

The movie Chicago is a broadway musical directed by Rob marshall. It’s seductively stylish in a very unique way and leaves a mesmerizing impact on the audience. Roxie hart, a struggling wannabe star, is played by Renee zellweger. Most of the movie’s songs and dance numbers are the imagination of roxie. She has that lust for stage, lights, fame , freedom and stardom. She wants it all. She wants everything.

She dances her heart out in all of her imaginations with the grace of a broadway performer. Velma Kelly, the STAR and roxie’s idol, is exceptionally played by Catherine zeta jones. She rises the hot quotient in the movie, he personality just heats up the screen completely.

Most of her dance performances in the movie are solo and she pumps up the energy level of the film to a great pitch.

Richard gere, surprisingly plays a very humorous character. His sense of humor did make the audience laugh their hearts out. “Chicago” has all the right notes and does hit all the right places.

The tap dances of Richard gere, the strutting of Catherine jones and the songs of renee -surprisingly all of it works. It’s a movie filled with sensuality, scintillating romance mixed with adultery and murder with comedy, drama and dance.

Velma Kelly  used to dance with her husband and sister. On getting to know that her husband cheated on her by sleeping with her sister, she kills both of them in bed. On the other hand roxie makes her simple husband take the blame for killing fred, with whom his wife had an affair with but she made her husband believe that he was a burglar. In jail Roxie fights for starlight, freedom and headlines alongside her ido velma. They both hire the same lawyer Bill Flynn( Richard gere) because he had never lost a case. He likes roixie’s angle of he tried to kill me more than velma’s I blacked out more. So he chooses to take roxie’s case and makes her famous. With the help of matron mama both spot as illinois’s most frames murderess, but there is room for only one legend… that’s Chicago.