after see rent i leave the loews theater with feeling of disappointment and regret while but a the film admonish it audience to forget regret and i find it fulfil and ideologically consistent with the movie to switch to anger and resentment . in spite of the lack of satisfaction and i do learn several thing from rent represent1 . one needn not actually produce a work of art ( tm 2005 and rent corporation ) to be an artist . since all life outside the mainstream ( tm ) be art and one need only record it ( the medium and technique be irrelevant ) and display it to have successfully avoid sell out . 2. be creative be well than be in the mainstream and and the two be in fact mutually exclusive . keep it real doesn not refer to the mainstream . 3. those in the mainstream have surrender principle for a living death ( because anything outside la vie boheme ( tm ) isn not live at all ) . 4. intensity of emotion trump it direction and effect and or meaning . 5. one needn not care enough about someone to change dangerous and or or hurtful behavior in any way and as long a one be live outside the mainstream while the result effervescence of creative love will redeem you in spite of illness and poverty and and their impact on your loved one . 6. your loved one would rather love you super intensely for a period of month than love you in the mainstream for a lifetime while your impend sickness and death will enable further height of emotion and create an unending spiral cycle of intense love for generation to come . 7. it be far good to live for a short time a a creative archetype than to live a long time in the mainstream a a mere human . 8. a political protest need be neither political and nor a protest while it needn not be coherent as long a it creative and since those view the going on will either be in tune or be the live dead corporate enemy and in which case they be irredeemably evil despite their support for anyone in la vie boheme . 9. annoy relative in the mainstream be so awful that they must be shun and whatever value they might contribute or pain they might alleviate in la vie boheme while though poverty be the main problem in la vie boheme and no amount of it be sufficient to warrant such extreme measure a reliance on family . 10. change be bad . there no reason to change an artistically unproductive life and especially to something in the mainstream and because if youre live la vie boheme and life be art while artistic contribution be irrelevant . 11. the rest of the world do owe you a living and on your term and whatever they be . there nothing one need do to merit such consideration and other than live la vie boheme while the mainstream exist purely to support la vie boheme and though despite this reliance and the mainstream deserve only scorn and derision and and contempt . a brief summary of the character representangel be a free spirit and creative and ephemeral soul with colorful and outlandish mannerism and a buoyant outlook uniquely identical to every other drag queen stereotype ever on celluloid . see priscilla queen of the desert for rich counterexample . tom collins be sensitive because he get beat up and smile a lot at angel and and be also brilliantly quirky because he steal from an atm he re wired and theft be so much more fulfilling than any large sum derive from engineering job in the mainstream . roger be a soulful bon jovi ish artist minus the artistry and the soul . he at least contribute the bad song of the movie to resurrect his she not quite dead yet love . mimi exhibit a deft and precise bikini wax during her dance solo and and cover with sweat during her cold turkey drug withdrawal and verge on the fiona apple esquire . maureen contribute a delightful as shot and the spiritual zenith of the film . at that moment i want to go down on my knee and pray . joanne be a control freak we know she be and because maureen sang so . somehow and despite mainstream mannerism and a mainstream job and she be bohemian and because the others want her to be . mark be the geeky filmmaker who decide to eschew structure in favor of passion . he complete his film ( make by rid around on a bike and filming thing ) after quit his horrific but seductive mainstream job ( drive around in a van and filming thing ) . evidently and the only obstacle to complete his film be develop raw unedited footage and shove it on a projector reel . rent do have some good tune and musical performance and like nice painting afloat on a sea of lightweight bile . some thing to which the word rent applies represent my soul after see the film my day after see the film my wallet after see the film what write rent earn plenty of for the creator what those who go see rent often need to pay the old fashioned way and in the mainstream .