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West Side Story (1961)
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Movie Review by Zara 
March 10th, 2007
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I Want to Live in Amereeka!
So it's a melodramatic musical that follows along the storyline of Romeo and Juliet. So what. The music is sharp, the characters are worth following and the story, while familiar, needs to get pointed out. Immigrants coming into our country and what they go through, so brilliantly displayed in the key song in this movie, is a sharp social commentary that still stands the test of time.
The music helps to sell this movie in addition to the sharp choreography and the good performances handed in not just by the leads but by the supporting characters. Rita Moreno was the first Hispanic woman to earn an Oscar nomination and it was rightfully so. Most people remember her first before they remember Natalie Wood in her body make-up (because the studio didn't think that an actual Puerto Rican girl would work in the lead).
I watch this movie at least once every year. It's still capable of making me laugh and smile even though I already know what's going to happen. That's one of those things that makes a movie a classic. Being timeless.
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