sleep well and when you dream, dream of me tonight.

So I watched West Side Story for the first time today... and was somewhat confused.


Because I'm really pathetic I knew a lot of the songs from it as,ahem...I'd heard them on glee...*cough*, and the general acting was good, as well as the dances being spell-bindingly accurate and beautifully performed, but from what I understood - somebody please correct me if I'm wrong - is West Side Story not meant to be based upon Shakespeare's romantic classic 'Romeo and Juliet'.


This is what I thought throughout the whole film, so when it got to the end and Maria walked away, alive and heartbroken, the macabre person inside me was wondering why she wasn't dead!


Apart from the slightly abrupt ending (I say slightly abrupt because it was such a long film that it can't really be called abrupt) I would really recommend that you see it as its a brilliant film.
4/5