Here’s another reminder that the Sound of Music is a film conservatives should watch with their families annually. The whole movie is about the complementarity of the sexes, highlighting masculine and feminine strengths and weaknesses, and how the sexes become something greater together than either naturally tends to be in isolation. Captain Von Trapp’s firmness turned to harshness following the loss of his wife. Meanwhile, Maria’s romanticism caused her to be “flighty as a feather” until she found a man she could follow. When Maria walks down the aisle to be married, the organ plays the reprise of “How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria?” with the implication that Von Trapp has a problem that needs solving, too. The solution is a godly marriage, which heals their ills, restores joy to the home, and blesses the whole family. (There are similar lessons in Rolf’s boyish idealism and Liesl’s naïevte, though their doomed relationship was not to be.) Besides all of this, the film paints a positive picture of patriotism against the backdrop of Nazism. It shows the glory of music. And it has nuns who engage in just war tactics. What’s not to love?