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Family
The Sound of Music is basically the story about family.
We never learn what happened to Maria's family (though we might assume that, like the real Maria von Trapp, she was orphaned), but she seems to look to the Reverend Mother as a kind of mother figure when she needs advice or guidance. Maria finds herself plunked down in a family with seven challenging children and gets to work trying to get the captain to lighten up and get closer to his children.
From a fractured, emotionally distant bunch at the movie's start, the von Trapps become a close, loving family whose emotional harmony is as strong as their musical harmonies.
The film presents a realistic portrait of a family that's been fractured by grief after the loss of their mother.
The family's "rescue" by Maria is a little too perfect and contrived. It's not that easy for a family to heal so quickly after such a major loss.
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