Not because of how much I want to see the protagonist succeed, but just looking forward to how the story will allow us to see the protagonist change, and what kind of change.
Yet Francis was struggling, frustrated, embarrassed, and at a loss. We can only see her moving house again and again, watching all kinds of embarrassing episodes in her life, watching her read book after book but still socially inept. Sufficient living materials were transformed into vivid scripts, but they did not blindly fall into the fantasy world of the protagonist. Most of the time, the film is just a "restore" of life. Although it is black and white, with retro music.
There aren't many complete lyrical passages, or jokes, that force the audience to listen to chicken soup for the soul of success and failure. Only the dancing steps on the run, the mantra spit out after drinking, and the hesitation in the face of the $3 handling fee, made us feel empathy without a trace.
Does life depend on luck, hard work, compromise, or time? This film does not attempt to give answers. The protagonist is only occasionally happy and occasionally frustrated with life. At one point, she fell into a bad circle, and the situation became more and more unsatisfactory, but she was still pretending to be calm and deceiving herself. She is not really poor, but she is out of place among the prosperous. She insisted on being herself, but she was temporarily dismissed as a substitute for unknown reasons, and clumsily to please her boss once reminded me of a black swan, but she was not so crazy and persistent. She was more ordinary and could make herself happy. In the end, I don't know how to transform. She gained recognition through choreography. I don't know if she will continue to be a dancer or completely switch to choreography.
Yes, the ending came so abruptly, and before I peeked into any more New York Success Studies, the movie was over. Unlike the drunken folk ballads, our heroine happily "ha". Maybe we should learn to love this clumsiness.
It might be more fun to read the script and analyze the storyboards. to be continued.
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