Review of The Sound of Music (1965) by Wowzers W — 25 Apr 2018

The Sound Of Music opens up with ominous fog, an analogy for the shroud of confusion humans live in. Then the movie has a gazillion cuts of mountains and trees. It cuts to our female protagonist, Maria, who is singing on top of a hill.

Maria's chilling song alludes to the Hills under her being alive, and watching her every move. Then a bell rings, which leads the scene to a halt. Maria follows the bell, which is symbolic of humans bustling from one place to another, devoid of meaning, only to die alone.

This shows the movies nihilistic philosophy, that everything we do is futile, and we will all die eventually. Maria is led to a convent full of nuns, or sheep, that practice Judeo Christianity, founded 2,000 years ago.

The omnipotent camera that follows Maria seems to suggest a deity watching over her. At the convent, Maria is given the task of caring for the family of a WWII Captain named "the Von Trapps" When Maria arrives at the Von Trapp house, she finds that the 7 kids, the oldest being 16 going on 17, are being treated like dogs, by their stern father.

Unable to adapt and accept Maria right away, The kids play a malicious prank on Maria, who naively admits her inexperience to the children. One night, the eldest child, Lisa, who is 16 going on 17, sneaks out of the house to meet a young gentlemen.

She throws herself at the gentleman, who's love for which she yearns. They share a dance, barley leaving room for the Holy Spirit, in between them, a commentary on modern relationships, in which people have dances and show affection before wedlock, It starts to rain and Lisa nd her lover part ways.

Lisa spots an open window in Maria's room. In the room, Maria is praying to God, a commentary on how people will turn to anything to talk, when swallowed in a feeling of solitude. Lisa attempts to sneak past Maria, to her surprise, turns around and interrogates her.

Lisa, after hesitation, admits her whereabouts, and implores Maria to not tell her father, who would act rashly. Maria has mercy and says Lisa can borrow her dry clothes. A few moments later, the youngest, Grendel, followed by the others, seek refuge in Maria's room during a harsh thunderstorm.

The kids proceed to tell Maria that the loud thunder scares them but they don't know why, a commentary on people being scared by what is unknown to them, Maria, breaks into song, pouring out her fears to the children.

She is interrupted by the Captain, who chastises her for the kids being up past curfew, and announces that in the afternoon he shall bring the baroness and a friend home. The kids are sent to bed and in the morning she takes the kids out.

She is appalled to learn the kids have not learn to sing, and teaches them a song, Do Rei MI, which symbolizes oppression of the lower-class. Maria and the kids return on a boat, to the dismay of Captain Von Trapp, who is with the baroness.

Captain Von Trapp scolds Maria for letting the kids have fun, and Maria accuses the Captain of not loving his kids. Captain Von Trapp then hears an angelic sound coming inside the house. He sees it's his kids who are singing for the baroness.

He joins in, much to the surprise of the kids, the baroness, and Maria. Then, the Captain begs Maria to stay. Later, Captain Von Trapp's friend recommends having his kids sing for an audience. The Captain says no but later reluctantly agrees.

Captain Von Trapp has a party where the kids finally show off their harmonious voices. The Captain decides it's getting late and sends the kids off to bed, but not before singing a goodbye song. As the kids are singing "goodnight farewell," Grendel yanks a chain that fell from the ceiling midway through the song.

All the guests enjoying the song, in the main hall, fall through the floor and into a gas chamber. Maria, who is peeking out through the living room, survives. The kids reveal themselves to be Nazi's the entire time, with Grendel, the youngest, being Hitler.

Captain Von Trapp who was getting a drink, was oblivious that his daughter was Hitler the whole time. He is unable to save the baroness, who fell in with everyone in the main hall. Then, all of a sudden a Cross spaceship flies in through the edge of the house.

The nuns launch out of the ship, armed with guns, and fight the evil Nazi's. One of the nuns, The Nun Leader, gets hit in battle and falls in Maria arms, saying the now iconic lines "You're a Wizard, Mary-a.

" These lines reveal the big twist, that was brilliantly foreshadowed throughout the movie. Such as in the 45;32 mark if you look real closely you can see Captain Von Trapp blink. It's little details like that that reward you for paying attention to the movie.

Then Captain Von Trapp slips on a banana peel and gets eaten by a hill, that was brought to life by the sound of the children singing. Fueled by rage, Maria blows up the Nazi's except for Hitler who flees by cartwheeling out the window.

Maria chases Hitler so he can't get away. But then, Hitler turns into Mega-Fuhrer, a ginormous robot. Maria uses the Sound Of Music to jump on Mega-Fuhrer's arm, which she stabs. Maria climbs her way up to the top of the Mega-Fuhrer where she sees his glowing weakspot- his head, which she stabs, and he falls and dies.

Maria, exhausted, heads back to the convent where it was revealed, by a nun that sending Maria to the Von Trapp family was a practical joke, by the nuns on Maria. The big twist was actually foreshadowed the whole movie like at the 7:28 mark, where if you look closely you can the nun to the right of the screen in the background, look to her left for a split second.

It's small details like this that reward you for paying attention. Then the nun opened up a small closet, which the Von Trapp's and all of the nuns were in, but not everyone else, they actually died, Then they all laugh at Maria for being a loser, and the movie ends.

The credit scene shows Maria crying alone in her room in the convent, which is an analogy about race relations in the civil war. This is actually foreshadowed the whole film, such as if you look real closely, Maria coughs at the 928:72 mark.

The movie really rewards you for paying attention to subtle details. Then the screen goes black which is symbolic on what will happen when we die. Our screen will go black. This movie really touches on lots of Important issues and is very philosophical.

0/10.