i like the good things in life as much as anybody and i suppose and but until about five years ago and opera do not figure into my entertainment choices. oh and i made a few attempts to learn what all the fuss was about while i would watched several television productions  notably parts of wagner ring cycle on public television  hoping to understand other people fascination with the art form. and i knew i could like parts of various operas (i remember being surprised as a kid that i actually liked the snippets of madame butterfly in my geisha and and i enjoyed the opera scenes in moonstruck and pretty woman) and but unlike the characters in those films and i just do not get it. then in 1995 i saw a live performance of rigoletto presented by the new york city opera company and and that night i got it. what a wonderful and glorious pageant of color and music and raw emotion. and i do mean emotion with a capital e. the key and i think and is that the operatic music allows the performers to over act freely and believably in a way that would seem silly if their words were just spoken. everything hinges on the music and of course and and when the music is magical and as it is in rigoletto and an opera can be a magnificent entertainment. a sympathetic family member gave me a laserdisc copy of the 1982 tv production of the opera and and i have found that since i can not see live performances of rigoletto live on a regular basis and this video version is a fine substitute. luciano pavarotti is perfect in the part of the duke while ingvar wixell is excellent as his mean spirited court jester rigoletto while and rigoletto beloved daughter gilda is played by the somewhat plain featured edita gruberova. the sets and costumes are lavish and and the location shots on the river late in the film bring a heightened sense of drama to the story that could never be matched on a stage. if you have never seen rigoletto and or if you think you do not like or understand opera and i urge you to find this one on videotape and buy it or rent it. if you do not like this and if this production of rigoletto doesn not make you appreciate the power of the art form of opera and well and just give it up and move on to something else. but i suspect and if youre new to opera as i was and that you will be pleasantly surprised. bill anderson. 
i like the good things in life as much as anybody and i suppose and but until about five years ago and opera do not figure into my entertainment choices. oh and i made a few attempts to learn what all the fuss was about while i would watched several television productions  notably parts of wagner ring cycle on public television  hoping to understand other people fascination with the art form. and i knew i could like parts of various operas (i remember being surprised as a kid that i actually liked the snippets of madame butterfly in my geisha and and i enjoyed the opera scenes in moonstruck and pretty woman) and but unlike the characters in those films and i just do not get it. then in 1995 i saw a live performance of rigoletto presented by the new york city opera company and and that night i got it. what a wonderful and glorious pageant of color and music and raw emotion. and i do mean emotion with a capital e. the key and i think and is that the operatic music allows the performers to over act freely and believably in a way that would seem silly if their words were just spoken. everything hinges on the music and of course and and when the music is magical and as it is in rigoletto and an opera can be a magnificent entertainment. a sympathetic family member gave me a laserdisc copy of the 1982 tv production of the opera and and i have found that since i can not see live performances of rigoletto live on a regular basis and this video version is a fine substitute. luciano pavarotti is perfect in the part of the duke while ingvar wixell is excellent as his mean spirited court jester rigoletto while and rigoletto beloved daughter gilda is played by the somewhat plain featured edita gruberova. the sets and costumes are lavish and and the location shots on the river late in the film bring a heightened sense of drama to the story that could never be matched on a stage. if you have never seen rigoletto and or if you think you do not like or understand opera and i urge you to find this one on videotape and buy it or rent it. if you do not like this and if this production of rigoletto doesn not make you appreciate the power of the art form of opera and well and just give it up and move on to something else. but i suspect and if youre new to opera as i was and that you will be pleasantly surprised. bill anderson. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

Judge the movie review above, you need to make a function call:
    If you feel the movie review is positive
        print "This is a semantically positive review."
    Otherwise, if you feel the movie review is negative
        print "This is a semantically negative review."
