I hesitated for a long time to post these comments because (as I said in my post) I like the good things in this West Side Story very much -- and there are a lot of good things. I will be seeing it for a 3rd time at a local cinema on Tues., 1/18.
However, I have been hearing a lot of contrary comments from the Latino members of my family and even from my former boyfriend, who not only is Puerto Rican, but he played a Shark in a high school production of West Side Story at Lane Tech High School in Chicago during the 1990's.
I just wanted to make a balanced and honest statement about some of their feelings toward the film.
