The 10 Academy Award-winning musical that reinvigorated the genre in 1961 and etched itself into the DNA of Americans is back on the big screen 60 years later.

Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins' award-winning and popular 1961 film may have hinted at the context and circumstances, may have brought the musical out of the studios for the first time, and for good, but the DNA of the story Arthur Lawrence wrote for Broadway in 1957, set to Stephen Sondheim's unflinchingly timeless lyrics and Leonard Bernstein's divine music and songs, cries out about the problem of racism and injustice, however much the sigh of the masses may focus on the romantic drama between Tony and Maria.

West Side Story is a double feature from Steven Spielberg. First, it honors his own love for this musical, but more importantly, it honors his view of the galloping divide between the idealized America and the country itself that, by all accounts, has not only not changed, but maintains a bipolarity that has deepened in recent years.