One of the few musicals I can watch

Rating: Null/10 (25 October 2015)

I dislike the musical genre. Silly choreography blending with silly scenes. Usually means a transport for some singer who can't possibly act, but at least can sing. Yet, in Grease these scenes are somehow less distracting.
Rewatching this movie made me think of its script and execution. This is not the regular studio fare where we have an opera play on multiple stages. It certainly feels less theatrical and more natural. And the cues are simple, almost childish, but effective. This way the message gets through even if there are strong cultural differences.
I also liked the side stories. In a puritan America that still damns the contraception you have the "easy" Rizzo saying to hell with the condom and than the probable pregnancy. It would have been the usual moralist undertones if the girl leaves with a boy only to let the audiences find out later that she is pregnant.
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