life in the darkness

I have just finished bindge watching the 1961 version of Westside Story, so that I can compare it to the modern 2021 version. Oh my goodness! I won’t share spoiler alerts here, but why, oh why, did it have to end like that! I was silently crying into my tissue! I can see the tears flowing once again in the cinema! That’s happened 3 times in my life, or was it 4! I can’t remember. I think in my whole life, I’ve been to the cinema about 4 times. Once as a school treat back in year 6, to see Zorro, which was totally boring. Again in about 2003, or 2004, when Harry potter and the Goblet of Fire was released. I cried in that one, when Sedric died. Yep, I was silently sobbing into some tissues! It’s the music that gets you going! Then, the words, and nowadays, the audio description makes it a heck of a lot worse! You listen to films on the tv, or in the cinema and it describes scenes where someone dies, like in 1917, or, when someone meets someone for the last time. Or other scenes. You get the: He puts his arms around her, and tears well in her eyes, as she gazes at him with the moon in the sky above. Or something like that! And yep, that’s when you go! You sit there, thinking I’m not going to cry! No seriously, I’m not! “But without warning, the tears start flowing! It happened in Les miserables back in 2012, then last year in 1917, and now, I’m going to categorically say, It will definitely happen in Westside story! Good luck to those going to see it. you’ll definitely need a box of tissues! Especially when watching it with the audio description headphones.