Dedicate yourself to the pinnacle of art or compromise with love? There is no answer to this question. Different people have different choices. The classic movie "Hong Lingyan" adopts the layered structure of the play within the play, which completely integrates and completely opposes the elegant ballet performance and real life. This ingenious fusion and opposition, in turn, subtly combines the wonderful ballet and film narrative. The dance content is added to the narrative, becomes an important plot in the story, promotes the development of the story, and combines the characters in the movie with the fate of the characters in the ballet. People from different worlds, the same ending makes the audience sad and lamentable.
In order to achieve a high degree of integration, the film conceives three main characters from three worlds: Lermontov from the world of high ballet, Vicky, who is eager to enter the world of high ballet, and Zhu, a composer in the real world. Lean. Ballet art means different things to these three people. For Lermontov, ballet is a sacred religion, and no one is allowed to blaspheme, including beautiful love; in his eyes, any feelings unrelated to ballet are unnecessary and a stumbling block to the pursuit of faith; What he wants to do is to continue to pursue the ballet art and to keep improving the sculpture. In his eyes, the boundless love of high art—ballet is as simple as death, an undoubted beginning and an inevitable end. Lermontov believes that human desires are illusory in front of ballet, and ballet protects Lermontov like a god. He told Vicky, "You can't have both. A dancer who wants to enjoy a love life can never be a great dancer—never." So he doesn't allow ballerinas to have sex, someone If he falls in love or gets married, he will be fired immediately. The same is true for Vicky, Lermontov is jealous of Julian who has Vicky, but this jealousy is not the jealousy of ordinary people, his jealousy is that as the guardian of ballet, he takes away Vicky who has ballet artistic talent. The jealousy caused by Julian is not jealous of pure love between a man and a woman. He didn't want to possess Vicky to prevent Vicky from marrying Julian, but was jealous of the artist's fear of the loss of ballet. Vicky is like a cross in a ballet sanctuary, Lermontov was afraid that the crucifix in his sanctuary would disappear, he would rather this cross rot in the sanctuary than be stolen, rather guard it to become Soul, don't give it to others. As for the question of sacrificing everything for the art of ballet, Lermontov thinks it is inevitable, thinking that this is the world he lives in; Vicky, who lives in the real world, is hesitant, she encounters the problem of choice; and Julian is moderate. He loves music more than Vicky. He is willing to sacrifice art for love and become an ordinary composer.
Julian and Lermontov are both pure believers, one is for art, the other is for love. Poor Vicky is contradictory. On the one hand, she loves art as her own life, and on the other hand, she also loves Julian and cherishes it as her life. When she was asked to make a choice, she was in pain, tangled, and didn't know how to choose. In the end, she could only choose death. It is sad and inexorable that art and love ruin a ballet artist. Vicky put her body in the hall of ballet religion and dedicated her soul to her love. Lermontov was both Vicky and Julian's benefactor and the initiator of the tragedy. It was Lermontov who chose Julian as the composer of the ballet and Vicky as the protagonist of the ballet, shaping Vicky as a muse entity. He has the grace to know them. But when Lermontov thought that two people who could follow the ballet religion with him, betrayed him together, and established a love religion that belonged to them, Lermontov was angry, and he drove away Julian and Vicky . When constructing the ballet of the great dancer for Vicky, Vicky chose love. But, in fact, love and ballet are indispensable, so she returned to Lermontov, hoping to have both. However, when she was about to play, Julian came to beg her and him to leave here, and when she left the dream of being a big dancer, she fell into the abyss of contradictions. In the end, she chose not to choose, but chose death. The insane love of art and the antagonism and contrast between love life, this sharp binary opposition and the necessity of choosing one or the other eventually swallowed the heroine and led to tragedy.
The death of this wonderful character, Vicky, creates an intriguing conclusion to the tragedy. Should we pursue the pinnacle of art, or should we give up this pursuit for perfect love? This contradiction is really a difficult choice for any artist to face. The beautiful and lovely protagonist Vicky also fell into this trap of choice. Under the persecution of Lermontov and Julian, she had to choose death. Was Vicky's death worth it? This is also a difficult question to answer. For ordinary people living in the real world, or for Lermontov who lives in the ballet world, it may be an easy choice. For Ji, it was very difficult. Vicky sees art as life on the one hand, but falls in love with the composer Julian on the other. She didn't want to give up on both sides, but both sides wanted to occupy her completely, leaving her with no choice. "To live or to perish" has also become a very difficult question for Vicky. In the end, she had to dedicate her body to art and her soul to love. Maybe Vicky like this is free.
One of the cinematic representations where the real world and the dance world are highly integrated is metaphor. The movie "Hong Lingyan" was inspired by "Red Shoes". The fairy tale "The Red Shoes" is an excellent work by the great fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen. "Red Shoes" depicts a girl who loves dancing put on the magical red shoes given to her by a strange shoemaker, and the red shoes lead her to dance frantically in the world of dancing. When she was tired and didn't want to dance, the dancing shoes couldn't stop until the beautiful girl died. The story of the red shoes also hints at Vicky's death. The same is true for the beautiful girl Vicky in reality. Lermontov is the evil shoemaker. He imprisoned Vicky in ballet dancing, so that she could not choose between art and her own feelings. The end of the contradiction is that she chooses death. Poor Vicky was held in her arms by her beloved, just like in a dance drama. Vicky's life and dance are in perfect harmony. Vicky was dead, Lermontov was alive, and he had to find another beautiful dancer for his red shoes and another companion for his religion. His heart is fragile, he needs ballet dancing, but he himself can't dance such a wonderful fairy tale dance, so he has to find this person who can realize his divine ideal, even at the expense of others. Lermontov is also a poor man with "healthy selfishness".
The parallel between the lyrical world and the real world makes ballet and film blend seamlessly. Why didn't the 15-minute ballet dance that was regarded as a classic in "Hong Lingyan" arouse people's boredom? First, because the ballet dance itself is highly watchable; secondly, the dance world and the real world are highly integrated, so people can find Vicki's final choice in the ballet, leaving a suspense that meets the audience's psychological expectations; third, Foreshadowing in the early stage, there are also many shadows of ballet in the real world. For example, the scene of "Hong Lingyan" was rehearsed. Vicky sees Lermontov and Julian alternately in Vicky's eyes, and Vicky sees the audience flock to Julian in the orchestra pit like waves during the performance. Julian transforms into Eros and dances with her on stage. Vicky said that he was separated from the audience by a wall, and Julian said that he would use his music to help Vicky break through the wall. This implies that Vicky's death was her dedication to top art and noble love. In addition, when Vicky goes to meet Lermontov at his residence, the whole scene is like a stage, and Vicky is dressed as if he is performing. Such a high degree of communion makes this dance unfold smoothly in the film. There are many scenes like this in the movie.
The reason for the sudden insertion of lyrical scenes in the film is to find a balance in the conflict between reality and ideal. The ideal of ballet dance breaks into the real world, making those who love her psychedelic, sinking, dying, and reborn. The lyrical world, however, is an ideal world, the world of Lermontov. Vicky and Julian break into this world, but there is nothing but elegant ballet in this world, and even the best love cannot survive in this world. Lyrical scenes intrude on a large scale into four real situations, such as: Vicky meeting Lermontov in a villa, dressed in princess style, against a backdrop of a brilliant sky and a turquoise sea. The sudden break into the dreamy stage background in reality also implies that the ending of reality is like the ending of a fairy tale. Also, Vicky and Julian meet on a hotel balcony, and a train passes by, shrouding them in white smoke. This lyrical scene is like a ballet performance, temporarily detached from the real world. Then there is the romance between Julian and Vicky. The beautiful lake and the sky add radiance and radiance to each other, accompanied by wonderful music, once again came to the wonderland. In the end, Vicky jumps off the bridge and is killed by an oncoming train. Vicky jumped down like a dancing elf, her arms doing ballet dances, and her graceful figure was engulfed in the billowing smoke of the train. At this time, the two lines of lyricism and reality merge into a sad river, flowing quietly in the elegant art palace of ballet.
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