Daniel Academia

In the Heights was a great blend of culture, music, and storytelling that amidst all the different situations of the characters, hit on thought-provoking topics like ethnic identity and racial reconciliation, sacrifices of parents from immigrant communities to give their children better opportunities, pressure and shame of kids of immigrants/minorities to succeed, undocumented immigrants, and maybe even most prominently, that chasing your dream doesn’t necessarily mean changing your physical location, but changing your perspective of your circumstances or gaining clarity of your vision, wherever you are currently are in life. I did not watch the Broadway show and I know that some things had been changed, but not knowing anything about this movie before watching and taking it at face value, I thought it was great. Solid singing. Vibrant dancing. Real-life storytelling. I really enjoyed watching this film.