“[At] the end of Grease, when Sandy and Danny literally drive away into the sky in the Ford... [it’s] unexpected, unexplained but it’s got nothing to do with transcendence. It’s magic realism.”

https://bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross69-1978-grease-is-a-miserable

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GROSS/69 - 1978 - Grease is a miserable thing but it has a magic realist ending that I can’t stop thinking about

You were probably in a school production of this strange and rather cruel story.

GROSS - cinema history and criticism