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* The ending. Just... the ending. It just... ends!
** My friend has the deluxe DVD version with script and writers'/director's commentary. According to her, Maria kills herself offscreen.
** This troper has always assumed that was the point. It's mostly stuff that happened. The plot isn't the entire point, the characters are, and the gangs coming to a peace, too. Once that is accomplished, Maria, our main character walks off, with no idea where her life is going. And the audience has no idea either. Her killing herself, assuming the above poster is correctly informed, would change it from a [[What Now? Ending]] to a [[Downer Ending]]. In other words, life there is screwed up and it's hard to find a direction, you don't get one handed to you even if you are a main character.
** It was supposed to be a [[Romeo and Juliet]] type of story, and we all know the fairy-tale ending to THAT one...
** Maria most definitely does not kill herself. West Side Story is not [[Romeo and Juliet]], it only follows the same basic architype.
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