The Sound of Music

Since I was a child my favourite of all favourite of movies has and will always be 'The sound of music'. Everytime I visited my Uncle John's house I would always beg to watch that one movie, and I visited his place all the time, at least twice a week! It is a movie that has always touched my heart in more ways then one. I think I even fell in love with Captain Von Trapp! ^_^

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The movie is about a widower whose heart has turned cold after the death of his wife, since then he has raised his seven children (my salutations to the mother for bearing seven kids...imagine the size your hips would grow to!!! lol) like he would run a ship in the navy. Even going so far as to mandate uniforms and substituting his children's names with whistle signals. It was as though he didn't want anybody to touch his heart, not even his children who ranged from 4 to 16 years old. Along come Maria, a woman with a heart to large to contain and so filled with song that she can't help but let it escape. She hopes to share her love through god by initiating herself into nun-hood. However, the abess doesn't feel she's ready, being too innocent and wild, thus she is sent to the von trapp family in hopes to settle her wild spirit with some responsibility and experience.

Unbeknownst to Maria, who enters this responsibility with trepidation and positivity, she meets a brood of children whose hearts are as wild as hers, and who craves love in every way. Maria then sets out to free the childrens' hearts from the cage their father has put them into, as well as his own. With hearts free, the von trapps has once again found their family and a new mother.
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A story about love and obstacles, what young girls heart would not be captured by such an inspiring story. Even the very courtship between the Captain and Maria gives one hope. Remember the scene where Maria and the Captain were dancing the Australian Folk Dance? The trust they must have in each other to dance like that, the catches, and expecatation; her hand WILL be there. The look in their eyes...it swept me away the intensity they shared between them. Then the serenade!! The captain was singing for his family, and through his song he looked at each of his children, then he even looked at Maria including her in the family! Did you notice to that he never once looked at Uncle Max or the Baroness? The sublety of the movie, and the story is amazing!

The plot wasn't the only thing that captured my attention, another aspect was the landscape imagery! Salzburg Austria has beauty uncompared! It makes me want to hop on a plane and fly to these beautiful hills. Have you ever had that experience where you would be in th middle of a beautiful park or woods, stay very still and just breathe in the sweet fragrance of the flowers, sharp scent of the trees and grass. Soak in the heat from the sunshine and drink in all the colours while watching how the light and shadows seem to play a continuous game of catch? That is how this movie makes me feel about Salzburg.

The sound of music has always been one of the major influences of my childhood. It taught me that it is possible that love, no matter how impossible the idea seems, or how hurt you have previously been, it exists. It has taught me how a person should always try to understand how the other party feels, and rather then gloom and thunder about the problem, to instead just find a solution! This movie also protrays the ties of friendship and family, and how true and reliable they can be. It may be a family movie with little action, but it is a movie of morality and one with many teachings.