The White Crow Comments

  • Annie 2022-12-14 22:42:41

    3,5 The editing is very problematic. It can be guessed that the experience of different periods is used to explain the protagonist's desire for freedom and how his inferiority sensitive character is formed. However, the black and white parts of childhood are almost scattered, and no connection can be seen. The narrative of the advanced stage is again easily confused with the experience of Paris. In addition, the protagonist is well-shaped, and the artist's sensitivity, loftiness, perseverance,...

  • Evangeline 2022-12-04 04:20:03

    The fly in the ointment is that the movie spends a lot of space to construct an image of a arrogant, inexplicable and arrogant dancer with a non-painful tone, and suddenly it is transferred to a tense political persecution scene, which looks like a stinky boy fighting outside. Being dragged home by my mother was like a child's play. PS: How did Adele gain so much...

  • Lexie 2022-10-24 04:46:09

    The performance of male ballet dancers is too limited, why can't male actors express the rich and multi-layered physical content of actresses? Hearing this sentence from the male protagonist, you may understand more how precious another British "Male Swan Lake" is to show on stage. On the last night of planning to leave Paris, there were men and women in the bar, men and women, and the male protagonist's eyes finally focused on the man. Fascinating eyes explain everything. Some seemingly...

  • Jayme 2022-04-24 07:01:24

    A movie that owes a lot of heat and is a bit dull. I have seen a movie about a dancer from Beijing who escaped to the United States during the WG period. It is similar to this one. The same is that the directors all want to express the hero's escape from the mother country and the pursuit of freedom. But this kind of praise for defecting is not objective and fair, and it seems to be a bit of a double standard, because these people were actually very useful in their home countries. On the...

  • Octavia 2022-04-24 07:01:24

    The character of the male protagonist is too unpleasant and doesn't feel...

  • Jodie 2022-04-24 07:01:24

    Finding the boy is half the battle, and Fiennes captures the emotion perfectly. In the final analysis, they are still harmless dancers, otherwise they will be poisoned to...

  • Iva 2022-04-24 07:01:24

    The transformation of the last 1/3 of the male protagonist. ....

  • Manuel 2022-04-24 07:01:24

    Western films have already followed step by step for this type, and the inner drama of the protagonist must be weakened, so it cannot be objective and...

  • Josefina 2022-04-24 07:01:24

    I hope to see the story of how he became a great ballerina in the second half of his life. Also, I really don't think this actor dances very...

  • Holden 2022-04-24 07:01:24

    I don't know how to appreciate ballet, but I appreciate the style of the...

Extended Reading

The White Crow quotes

  • Rudolf Nureyev: I can live anywhere. Remember, I was born on a train. I feel I will never return to my country. But I may never be happy in yours.

  • [First Lines - dialogue entirely in Russian with English subtitles]

    Interrogator: You knew.

    Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: No.

    Interrogator: You knew what he was planning to do.

    Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: No.

    Interrogator: You're saying he never spoke of defection?

    Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: The subject never came up.

    Interrogator: He never spoke of it?

    Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: Never.

    Interrogator: This is an attack on the Soviet Union.

    Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: No, It's about dance.

    Interrogator: Dance?

    Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: He knows nothing about politics. He's gone to the West because there he can dance.

    Interrogator: He could dance here.

    Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: Yes, but... I think it's likely he had an explosion of character. That's who he is.