The power of music, the joy of music

Rating: 9/10 (20 June 2017)

The Sound of Music, the sound of freedom.
This classic film is filled with glorious songs and has plenty for hopeless romantics to enjoy. The Sound of Music also effectively works in the tension and foreboding of the time period. Everyone in Austria has to make a choice when the Nazis arrive. Even the nuns in the abbey must make a choice.It's worth discussing with older kids why this was such a tense time and why the Von Trapps made the painful decision to flee the country they loved. It is a movie of catching freedom.
"The Sound of Music" has contributed to the legend which has grown around the true life story of the Trapp family. ------Yidioo