Do you like roses?

Rating: 7/10 (19 September 2008)

Inspired by true story but utterly lacking reality, Sound of Music is a beloved and hated musical about Austrian novice (Julie Andrews) who becomes a governess of seven children, falls in love with their widowed father (Christopher Plummer)and eventually escapes Natzis with the family. Beautiful and clean and sweet like chocolate-box, smelling with roses, Sound of music is well-made product of old-fashioned, skill-filled Hollywood. It is totally unrealistic escapism, and, according to Milan Kundera, movies like this are denying of crap. Oh, yes, Milan, so they are... so they indeed are! And that's good, because I prefer roses.