Although I've seen The Sound of Music afew times, both on TV and in movie theatres (the first time I saw it was when it first came out), due to its mixture of sweetness, exuberance, tension and sadness, it does not hold the same special place in my heart regarding movies as West Side Story does. Being Jewish, I also have mixed feelings about the story behind TSOM; The fact that the Captain, a decorated patriotic nationalist who'd been working for the Nazis for a long time before realizing what the Nazis were up to, what they stood for and what they were doing, and finally took himself and his...
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