Pina Bausch, a German modern dance artist, died in 2009. The film includes excerpts from several of her dance plays, as well as the memories of her performers. I hadn't heard of Pina Bausch before; I just wanted to see the dance in the film.
The expressive power of modern dance is powerful and abstract. I don't know how much I can understand. The expressive and exaggerated body language of the dancers makes people feel that all the secrets of the world and all the emotions of human hearts are in the movement of their arms, presented one by one.
I love the rhythm of dance, the unexpected but impossibly accurate way of expressing it, the hardness and the sharpness, the fear and resistance, the joy and freedom, the explosion and reversal.
The actresses are no longer young and beautiful but are incomparably elegant and delicate; their long hair is loose, dancing in the air, in the water, in the sand, messy, flowing; their bodies in silk dresses are light and graceful; but their movements and expressions express pain, struggle, humiliation, and helplessness, and that scene has a hopeless gloom. The dances of the male actors are witty, powerful, and full of meaning, and the absurd but normal relationships between men and women in the dance show are fully visible.
I can't describe the content of each show separately because when I first started watching it, I didn't know what expectations I should watch it with. The works of art came to be swallowed whole. But then I found it was not obscure at all, very attractive. I found something I like today in this store where goods and art are mixed.
It's been a long time since I wrote about the movies I watched, because I didn't know whether to write about the plot or the feelings. Writing the plot is like being asked by the teacher to outline a text in elementary school and summarize the central idea. Often, he is ridiculed for not answering the key points correctly, and there is always a shadow in his heart. What's more, the plots of those literary films are sometimes really difficult to grasp. You have to preview the plot outlines written by other people before you can basically understand the ideas in the film. Therefore, if you write the plot, you will inevitably be suspected of plagiarism, even if you add your own understanding. It is a description of the facts; there is no room for play. So, with a little disdain, I write this...
As for the writing experience, you always feel that there is not much to write about, and writing about a certain scene is particularly shocking. Is a particular scene particularly touching? Is there a certain line I remember? It seems to be a few words or self-evident things. When looking at professional film reviews written by others, there are several paragraphs like a paper. You should start with the director’s style, and then compare it with the same type of film to analyze the connotation and expression of the film layer by layer. In this way, I feel that I have nothing to write about and that everything has been said by others.
However, I was unwilling to say anything. During the two or three hours of watching a movie, many thoughts kept flashing by, which left me amazed or deeply touched. These are the movies that I persistently look for in movies. The things that the creators insist on telling people should not be abandoned as the film is forgotten. Otherwise, is it just a number of movies that have been watched? Is this how you can call yourself a fan?
Should movies be used for entertainment or thinking? I always hope I don't stop thinking.
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