@hex @onuryasar I think that's true. And it's true of pretty much all the musicals I like (Dancer in the Dark is another favourite). It's the convention and the lightness I don't like... because I'm a grinch. It's also, incidentally, why I hated La La Land. That borrows its template from Umbrellas, but when the love story is spoilt rich kids whose time together is disrupted by Hollywood career aspirations instead of someone being drafted into the Algerian effing war, it doesn't just lack the same resonance, I find it borderline offensive in its indulgence. But anywaaaay...