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Which I've been doing basically one scene at a time, off and on, for months. We watched the original a lot growing up - in retrospect, I'm not entirely sure this was age-appropriate - and it just took me a while to get through the new one.

And I guess it's a tragedy because it's just so freaking stupid. Everybody in that story is just stupid, and makes bad decisions, although at least those choices make slightly more sense than in Romeo and freaking Juliet.

All the way at the start of that movie! You want your kid sister to stop seeing that dude? Then you are taking the wrong approach, buddy! Anita could've told Bernardo that. Anybody on the street could've told him that, if only he was the sort to listen to good advice, or any sort of advice. You don't "forbid" things. You don't pick silly childish fights on flimsy pretexts. No, if you want that proto-relationship to die, you invite the guy over to dinner. You're so nice and supportive, and you talk talk talk talk talk about his life, and his job, and his studies, and whatever boring stuff you can find to talk about.

The two have nothing in common! They only just met! So stop making their romance more attractive than it is. Just let them get to know each other and get bored, and it'll all fizzle out within a month.

But then there'd be no story.

That's the tragedy of life in a nutshell. People aren't too bright, but otherwise we'd have nothing to talk about.