West Side Story is a musical movie sets in the West side of New York City in 1950's. There are two teenage gangs namely Jets and Sharks claiming the place as theirs.
Knowing that this is a musical movie, the choreography and the song being used and performed was totally good. If we will talk about the set designing I can really say that they really did a great job knowing that their time compare to our time is totally different. In their time the type of production that they can produce is lesser than we think because of the development of technologies that they have. But at least they were able to produce such thing, we didn't even realize that most scenes were taken from a studio.
The movie talks about Love like Romeo and Juliet because the same as their story, Maria and Tony's love for each other is against all odds. But the other thing is that, its not all about Love it is also about Racial Discrimination against two different worlds who compact in one place.
I love music a lot that is why I really appreciate this movie, the dancing also was great because of the extension of the feet and arms that make them so wonderful to watch and you can really jive to it and have some eagerness to join them. The facial expression also really matters knowing that this is also a play of emotions.
Here is the opening scene of West Side Story, I hope you will enjoy and appreciate the art. (Disclaimer: I don't own this video)
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