From childhood to youth, there are always two boys and one girl in the story, one is passionate and one is silent and calm, girl, who to choose?
In Beijing’s Sijiucheng, the youth in the depths of the hutongs, the girls who grew up in the cinders hutongs, can dance, and their spirits are so high that no one cares about them, let alone two boys.
What is she thinking, what does she want? In this lack of cause and effect, thin story, we don't know when and what happened, in the most traditional place she had the most unconventional dream - dancing. She opened a clothing store, stocked and unloaded every day, and sold unintelligible fashion, and went to disco at night. It looks childish, but who knows what she is thinking.
What does the hutong girl Xiaofei want? It's not love, it's not life, it's not the future, she is an anti-traditional heroine of a youth story. The prince gave her a dress and asked her to go to an appointment.
But in the most clichéd plots of youth films, when she was humiliated, she did not wait for the prince to lend a hand like the usual idol heroines. Before holding the prince's hand, she rolled her eyes a few times, kicked the hated person away, and stood on the stage herself.
This plot is the one that impressed me the most and surprised me the most among the bland and flimsy statements. Little Fei, this girl, revealed what she wanted most here. In this movie, dance means different emotions to everyone. For Iron Monkey, dance is a space for him to escape from negative reality; for the person played by Mastiff, dance is a deep-seated love; For Fu Erdai, dancing is a tool for him to prove himself.
What does dancing mean to Xiaofei?
Means a weapon against real life, a force that can fly. All she wanted was to fly away. Maybe she never said it, but she knew that the training stalls in the alley selling clothes were not what she wanted, nor what she liked.
In the emotional line of the whole movie, Xiaofei did not directly say that he liked Xiaofei. Mastiff also likes Xiaofei, maybe it is no less than Iron Monkey. We are too familiar with this kind of youth story, until the boy died, Xiaofei Crying and crying, you can clearly feel that she has no choice at all. But Xiao Fei can really choose not to choose anyone, she doesn't want to choose, she doesn't have to choose.
Abandoning the elements of hip-hop, "Dancing Out of My Life" is a movie with a youthful core. Although the script is extremely thin, the plot has countless flaws, and the production cost and level are not ideal to the naked eye, although the plot is embedded in the old Beijing Hutong, it is With typical Taiwanese youth film elements, crime, mess, poverty, and obscure friendship and love, I saw "Betta Fish", "Guling Street" and "Summer Light Years". Therefore, even though the male protagonist has a lot of scenes, this film still has a very obvious femininity.
The 17-year-old Meng Meiqi is an unknown girl group member and an adolescent girl who has not grown up. But she is precocious and precocious, and the intense growth, self-driving, pain and hope she feels are not too different from that Xiao Fei in Cinder Alley. What is the hardest role to play? Thought-provoking characters in a thin plot, the three protagonists of this movie can be said to have performed quite well. Perhaps, such youth film roles need to be played more instinctively, so they don't need too much acting skills, just the unpretentious real me.
They are all dancers. At that time, they were all longing for dreams and working hard. Hip-hop, as a kind of street culture, is generally considered to be a sub-culture that is not mainstream. This kind of empathy and empathy makes this group gather. The people who are together, guarding a production with a small cost and I don't even know if it can be released or whether anyone will watch it, earnestly shoot the first movie in their lives.
Maybe many people are pessimistic, but Meng Meiqi, the girl who plays Xiao Fei, I saw in many moments that she used up all her emotions to experience and feel, she must not be pessimistic, just like Xiao Fei In the same way, even if she doesn't speak, but if she is given a chance, she will really turn the reality over, and she deeply believed it at the time.
The sky crow dance troupe in Cinder Hutong, the little girl who dances while practicing at the booth, she is not in the pool. After childhood and adolescence, she will definitely get out there and say goodbye, goodbye to chaos and violence, goodbye to hardship and confusion, goodbye to her loneliness.
Her name is Xiaofei, and she is a kite, flying to where she should go. Whether it's Cinderella Hutong or Wangcheng Park, no matter where she is, or on which stage, she is wearing a sweater or red, black hair with braids or blonde, she is always the one, kicking everything over and occupying the stage, no one is afraid Xiaofei.
Even if everyone is desperate, only Xiaofei, who deeply believes that she can fly.
In an interview last year, Meng Meiqi was asked what youth is, and she said it was a kite. There are innumerable connections, where to start, from Xiaofei?
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