My two favorite movies

Of all the movies I have enjoyed in my life, I would have to say that my favorite is a toss-up between "Fiddler on the Roof" and "The Sound of Music". Can you tell I like musicals by that selection? I really enjoy that genre of film. The storyline of "Fiddler" deals with Jews living during the time of Czarist Russia. The main focus is on a man named Tevya and his family. A traditional way of life is very important to Tevya and his wife Golda. His daughters all start balking at those traditions as they grow up and seek lives on their own outside the family environment they grew up in. The oldest doesn't want a match made for her by the local matchmaker. She wants her poor tailor that she grew up with. The next travels to Siberia to be with the rebel that she loves who was tossed into prison. The third had the utter temerity to fall in love with a Russian soldier of the Christian Orthodox persuasion. She marries him and is (temporarily) disowned by her father. The songs that Tevya and the other cast provide are fun to listen to, enjoyable and help tell the story of this family. Towards the end of the movie, an edict is issued from the government that all the Jews in their town are to leave. They are evicted from the homes they have known their whole lives. But their fortitude and good spirits are amazing and they all realize that, after all, it is only a place they are leaving and they are together and can start over in a new place. This is such an enjoyable movie for me to see over and over again. From the songs to the storyline, I never get tired of it.
My other favorite is "The Sound of Music". From the opening scene on a mountain in Austria and the song that goes with it I was hooked. The panoramic views of the Alps are breathtaking. The songs are all enjoyable, each in their own way. Whether it is Julie Andrews singing with Christopher Plummer or it is the children, they are all beautiful. The storyline involves this nun wannabe who gets called out of her convent to be a governess for these 7 children. She doesn't fit into the nun role but doesn't want to leave the convent. She sucks it up however and starts on a new adventure. She puts her whole heart into caring for these 7 children and winds up falling in love not only with them but their Naval militant father as well. The captain definitely loosens up when he realizes that he has fallen in love with this wayward nun as well. This takes place during the time of the Nazi occupation of Austria. Captain Von Trapp and Maria get married and go on a honeymoon. When they return, their town is draped with flags of swastikas and the Captain gets a telegram that he must report for service in the Nazi regime. That goes against every moral and ethic he has, so he takes his new wife and seven children and they escape over the mountains to Switzerland. Eventually, they wind up in America in Stowe, Vermont but you don't get that from the movie. From start to finish, both of these movies leave me laughing or crying in turns, but they end up with me feeling very satisfied with the outcome of the films.