Sanity at the Movies

Sanity at the Movies reviews The Sound of Music.

Show Notes

“This is a tribute to freshness that is so mechanically engineered and so shrewdly calculated that the background music rises, the already soft focus blurs and melts, and, upon the instant, you can hear all those noses blowing in the theatre. Whom could this operetta offend? Only those of us who, despite the fact that we may respond, loathe being manipulated in this way and are aware of how cheap and ready-made are the responses we are made to feel. We may become even more aware of the way we have been turned into emotional and aesthetic imbeciles when we hear ourselves humming the sickly, goody-goody songs. … Squeezed again, and the moisture comes out of thousands--millions--of eyes and noses." --from acidic early review of The Sound of Music.

Sources: the Gov and the Times.

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