At the beginning of the film, a black-and-white documentary of Georgian national dance appeared, conveying a major traditional national quintessence of the country to the audience, especially foreign audiences who are completely unaware of this aspect. I can’t help but think of the traditional Georgian dance performance I enjoyed during dinner at a restaurant in Tbilisi in late January this year. The actors wore traditional costumes and danced with strong and rhythmic drums. The protagonist of this film They are the actors who dance the quintessence of Georgian dance, and the focus is also on the stories of the dancers.
Throughout the whole film, it reveals a strong Georgian cultural and artistic heritage. According to a passage the dance teacher said to the male protagonist: their folk dance requires male dancers to have a very masculine dance style. But the male protagonist has a feminine temperament. He met another male dancer and gradually changed from his original rival to gradually approaching him.
The male protagonist is a single-parent family, and his family conditions are not good. During the day, he practiced dancing in a dance troupe. At night, he had to go to a restaurant to work and earn money. I have tasted this Georgian Xiaolongbao, which is filled with meat, basically only salty, with a little broth. Of course, it can't be compared with the Xiaolongbao in the gourmet country of China. The director deliberately arranged a lot of scenes, especially food, to highlight Georgian culture, as well as their usual tomato + cucumber salad and delicious baked flatbread, which are all specialties of the Caucasus. In one of them, the dancers bought a few freshly baked lanky flatbreads and happily ate them. The hostess also sat on the roadside steps to eat the flatbreads. This is actually what they usually do. A big pie that we would eat for a meal. We went on a trip and got tired of eating early every day. In fact, in retrospect, this freshly baked flatbread is really fragrant and delicious. Thin and crunchy.
In the dialogue of the actors, the director conveyed that the people of this country admired the lives of European people. The heroine Mary complained that Georgian cigarettes are difficult to smoke, and she likes to smoke British cigarettes brought back by relatives from London. Here is a seasonal topic. Georgia is applying to join the European Union. You can see that the European Union flag has been hung in the hotel. Although they are located in Asia, their ethnicity and various cultural customs are close to Europe. Maybe They are Europeans in the minds of Georgians. They used to belong to the Soviet Union, but now they hate Russia in their hearts and have always had border conflicts. This is also reflected in the dialogue between the boyfriend's friends and the family.
The two male protagonists were secretly in love, but the progress of the emotional drama was really slow, and finally caught a good opportunity to go to the heroine’s house for a vacation. The two male protagonists slipped onto the grass outside the heroine’s house and leaned against the clay pot and hugged them. Together, rubbing against each other. Speaking of the unique crock pot as the background, this is not an ordinary crock pot, but a Georgian wine pot. The country’s winemaking technology has been selected as the World Intangible Cultural Heritage and has a history of 8,000 years. (By the way, Georgian squiggles are also a World Heritage Site and have a long history.) Georgia’s wine is cheap and good, and there is also a country’s specialty wine called Chacha, which is similar to vodka.
This film really hides a lot of easter eggs. I can only find out a little bit when I have been to Georgia. In this way, the director silently paid tribute to Georgia, highlighting the country’s culture.
I really like this actor's little brother (it was found that he was born in 1997). He is one of the most emotional actors in the movies I have watched in recent years. The Austrian painter Schiller plays Schiller’s handsome boy in a movie. The little brother acted very well and had a lot of acting skills. He liked his sweet smile and secretly cheered from time to time, but in fact he was full of joy in his heart.
This film has both joy and grief. There is a scene where the little brother tore up all the posters about dancing in the house, except for the portrait of the cat and the poster of Spirited Away. The little brother is actually a fan of Hayao Miyazaki's animation. Here is a hint for the feelings. My brother can only pursue the fantasy of nothingness like anime.
I especially like the segment of the little brother wearing a thick fur hat of a Caucasus shepherd, dancing naked under the golden light and shadow. Accompanied by the music, our hearts throbbed with the little brother, stroking the heartstrings of another male protagonist.
In the final audition, the result is not important, but the male protagonist endured the pain, jumped out of his own rhythm and beat wantonly, and flew like an eagle, sometimes flying high, sometimes flying low, he used a personalized way to do He raised his eyebrows and ignited the climax of the whole film. Tears rolled in his eyes.
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