Music and the Fictive Dream "In the Heights"
The movie "In the Heights"(2021) is a musical and romance movie about the Dominican Republic community in the Washington Heights neighborhood in Manhattan, New York. The movie is an adaptation of the stage musical also called "In the Heights"(2005) written by Quiara Alegria Hudes and with the music written by Lin-Manuel Miranda. In the movie, Usnavi is shown as being tired of the same schedule every day, so he seeks out his dream. When he was a child, his dad sold the family business, and his dream has always been to buy that business back and run it. This means that when Usnavi's attorney friend tells him that his father's property is for sale, Usnavi decides that he will find the money to buy the business back and move to his homeland. By the end of the movie, Usnavi realizes that maybe going back to the Dominican isn't actually what he wants to do. Since it's a musical, music plays a huge role in the movie. Most important turning points or ev