Dance is a tangible expression of music, which Boris, director of the dance company, seems to understand. Helpless, jealous and irritable, Boris tries to break up Julian and Vicky's love in the name of artistic authority. The inseparable combination of music and dance in art seems to laugh at his exhausted and powerless master of his futile efforts.
Boris controls Vicky's artwork with high pressure, repeatedly testing Vicky, "To live or to dance?" foreshadowing the unease of the plot. Love art, but also infatuated with the incarnation of art, this is the happiness and sadness of Pygmalion. Boris put on the shackles of artistic imagination, the price is a lifetime of ignorance of real emotions, stubbornly danced to the death in the dance of self-belief. It's a frustrated Pygmalion, tragically living in a spiritual vacuum.
German expressionism aptly conveys the exaggerated expressiveness of dance art.
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