The titular film is [William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet]. This song was written after the band were screened the last half hour of the movie. [Thom Yorke]'s original idea was to use lines from the play as lyrics, but apparently that didn't work out.

The most direct inspiration for the song was the moment in the film in which [Juliet] holds the [Colt .45] to her head. But [Thom] was also thinking about [Romeo and Juliet|the 1968 version of the film]: "I saw the [Franco Zeffirelli|Zeffirelli] version when I was 13 and I cried my eyes out, because I couldn't understand why, the morning after they shagged, they didn't just run away. The song is written for two people who should [run away] before all the [bad stuff] starts. A personal song."

source: [green plastic|green plastic radiohead]

Exit Music (for a film)