German modern dance first lady Pina, the film followed her team, interspersed with various modern dances and each team member's narration of themselves, dance and art, and due to the use of 3D, each dance is made All are inspiring, flirtatious and deep, unrestrained and restrained.
From start to finish, I could feel a deep emotion flowing through my body. I have always felt that the essence and greatness of dance lies in its freedom and release. Everyone is born to be a dancer, because the dancing of the body itself does not require any skills and knowledge, and everyone will instinctively dance with their hearts. Therefore, dance is the most authentic totem, which has more primitive penetrating power than language.
The dance at the beginning seems to be the first redemption of mankind. Women wearing thin dance clothes like a second skin dance wildly in the red clay with bare feet, expecting, struggling, fearing, tempting, and being thrown into the sky with the music, back to the motherly land, long loose hair Mixed with dirt. Wearing a red shirt should be a symbol, the most precious but most sacrificial redemption for human beings, everyone yearns for, everyone fears, and finally one person puts on a red shirt and performs the most poignant and heroic sacrifice .
It reminds me of Tarkovsky's last film "Sacrifice", and it also reminds me of the oldest Chinese legend Nuwa mending the sky - female sacrifice, forbearance, tolerance - the most noble quality of human beings.
In the film, every member of Pina's team will appear one by one, and bring a very personal dance. No matter the time, no matter the scene, the body is abstracted into a beautiful symbol. They are not young and have no beauty. But they are real artists, because they are so sincere, there is no artificial, grandstanding beauty in the dance, only the shock of the heart. Some dance in desolation against the background of industrial cities, some wander like a fairy among beautiful mountains and rivers, and some are weird and witty.
In "Müller's Cafe", everything is more similar to performance art. The woman runs wildly in a pile of chairs, breaking free and running to another man. The two are in tangled physical contact, but there is never a lip-to-lip kiss. Like a doll, another person poses for a kiss, but returns to the original position again and again, over and over again, until they are exhausted, and they truly embrace each other deeply.
The real art is not to impose anything on the audience, but to strip people away from themselves, strip away everything that is external, vain, and snobbish, layer by layer, leaving only the most authentic self.
I prefer to call them "life", no limits, no frames, only feelings, only release.
They are just themselves, responsible for their lives.
Many spectators in the stadium complained that they couldn't understand it, and they didn't know what the people on the screen were doing, and people kept leaving the venue. I don't understand why people are trying to figure out "what they're doing", what they're not doing, they're dancing, and if their dance can be explained in words, it's probably a failure. The purpose of the film is not to make people understand what the director wants to do, but to let us dissect ourselves, strip ourselves, and understand what we want to do through these dances and memories. Just like Tarkovsky's movie "Mirror", there is no plot, only memories and time. When watching this movie, you don't have to understand "his" memories at all, because you can never understand, but your own memory fragments will Came like a tide.
I think this is the shock that art gives to each of us, giving us rebirth. Freedom is not to do whatever we want, but we can freely choose our own way of life, and work hard and struggle for it.
This is the power I see in "Pina", everyone in this team is ordinary people, but they are all free to bloom in their own way.
We all like to label things around us. We are used to only accepting things that meet our expectations. It seems that a good movie must either make people cry (such as "Tangshan Earthquake") or make people laugh (such as many), If you can't cry or laugh after watching it, and you don't know the director's intention, it is classified as "pretend B" (scientific name literary film). It seems that if the sensation is good, it is a success. Who is not raised by his parents, who will not cry when he sees the heart-breaking, separation of life and death between relatives? Maybe thinking is too tiring, just like appreciating the blank space in Chinese painting, it is too time-consuming and laborious.
In the middle of the filming of "Pina", Pina herself passed away, and the film had to add a lot of video data to the film. In fact, in the whole film, there are not many scenes of Pina herself. Perhaps as her team members said, what Pina brings to them is complete release and self. This is the most responsible art - only responsible for your own art, not responsible for anyone's preferences - when art needs to consider other people's preferences, it becomes a commodity.
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