John is a busy property lawyer in Chicago. Although he has an enviable job, a beautiful wife and lovely children, he still feels extremely tired of the boring work that he repeats every day. One day, on the way home, he saw a beautiful dance teacher through the glass window on the side of the road, and was deeply attracted by her charm. So he decided to start participating in this teacher's dance class so that he could get to know her better, and his life changed with his decision.
"Shall we dance" and "Lost in Tokyo" are also two depictions of middle-aged men's boredom with marriage and life. But for this kind of boredom, different people make different choices. Perhaps the most helpless thing in a person's life is to get bored. Do anything, there will always be a day of boredom, this is human nature. Instead of continuing to get lost, it is better to follow John's initiative to find change.
"Shall we dance" is a rare film that turns a heavy topic into a light comedy. It expresses a positive and enterprising attitude towards life in its graceful dance and a relaxed and humorous plot. Whether it’s "Shall we dance" or "Lost", middle-aged people are not so tired of years of married life, and tired of work that they can’t tell whether they like or dislike, rather they are more concerned about the life in between. The boredom of the circle. With boredom comes a sense of suffocation. This suffocation is not limited to middle-aged people, people of any age will have it.
Mankind invented the Internet, perhaps just to break the various circles in real life, let the largest number of people merge with each other, and create a better platform to eliminate boredom. The mobility of network personnel makes people face a new world and a new self every day. The Internet has set up a platform for dancing, the difference is dancing with your fingertips. It takes a lot of courage to dance with strangers. To greet the Johns who are standing at the door and probe their heads, you can greet them kindly, just like the ending credits of "Shall we dance":
she sweetly confronts the newcomers who just broke in from the door. He stretched out the invitation hand, "Shall we dance?"
He responded shyly and sweetly: "Shall we dance."
Use kindness to eliminate unconscious guards in the heart and cultivate friendship between people in a harmonious atmosphere. Life may be like a brisk dance, from one circle to another elegantly. It doesn't matter who you are, as long as you relax and enjoy the purest joy of mankind at the moment you meet each other.
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