West Side Story

I have never fully understood the concept of a musical, I thought the musical genre of film was to appreciate music rather than a story line. In West Side Story the concept of music and dance is brought into a story line of two gangs in the big city and their conflicts and rather than fighting and yelling it is a singing and dancing type of film but it is as if it is normal for that to happen, this film was interesting to watch and see how the direction put in the dance and singing exedra.. to the core of a rather interesting story.