Hearing the story of the red dancing shoes at first was almost like a horror story, can't imagine how tired those feet that couldn't stop dancing were jumping over mountains and streams, and couldn't even chop them off until they died of exhaustion, Andersen thought. What to tell the children through this story, don't be too greedy, don't enjoy too much pleasure, there is no perfect thing in the world, everyone will pay the corresponding price for his desire. Once you put on red shoes, you can only die. This is the most hopeless bondage, a must-have chain for everyone who desires to succeed.
The film integrates this story into the life of a girl who loves ballet in the form of a musical. Vicky, when she was an ordinary little girl, the whole meaning of her life was ballet. After she became famous, she and the best composer in the troupe Christie fell in love, and this is the most taboo thing for the producer Lemontov. He firmly believes that a dancer should devote himself to art. Once indulged in love, he cannot become the greatest dancer. Of course, we can From what Lermontov did, it was inferred that in fact he fell in love with Vitch. Lermontov fired Krist for his own selfish desires, while Vicky followed Krist and became a housewife for love. The unrepentant Lermontov found Vicki and promised to release her famous work "The Red Shoes" again, but Christ, who believed that he had been abandoned, left sadly, and Vicky, who was desperately caught in a dilemma, ended up in a dilemma. Suicide ends a hopeless life.
The translation of the title is very elegant, with Hongling referring to red shoes or feet wearing red shoes. The heroine's life begins here, is brilliant here, and ends here. Playing the role of a little girl who can't take off her red dancing shoes eventually became her destiny, which reminds people of "Black Swan", a girl who also devotes herself to art and dreams, although the overall artistic sense of the latter is far less than that of "Hong Lingyan" , but it brought us a unique performance after the movie. The choices of the two films seem to be different, but in fact all the choices are a helpless self-struggle, whether it is with one's own cowardice or with the love bestowed by others. Only those who have the leisure to experience art have time to understand life and feel themselves. The mediocrity of the Chinese style "it is better to die than to live" will never understand the nobility of "it is better to be broken than broken".
The dance "Red Shoes" appears only once in the film, but it completely goes beyond the logic of musicals and incorporates magical colors into it to make it more like a fairy tale movie. Time flies, love flies, life flies, only the gorgeous red dancing shoes are tirelessly beating and active. The illustration-like background is simple and vivid with light colors. The most vivid thing on the entire stage is the pair of red dancing shoes at Vicky's feet, burning the hearts of the audience like blood and flames. In this dance, the director let fantasy and reality appear under the camera at the same time, which not only makes up for the regret of being a stage play, but also adds a magical and realistic style. The little girl fantasizes about the beauty and reality of wearing red dancing shoes outside the window. Her anxiety and hope were mixed together. It was the first time I saw that a musical could be shot like this, and it made me think for a long time how the director made Vicky to be cloned on the stage. The background of the entire stage was changed in this kind of visual effect that was both real and illusory, and even explained the subsequent development of the plot. The empty stage was full of debris and loneliness after the carnival, and the girl wearing red dancing shoes could not. She stopped dancing and died in her lover's arms. The composers Krist and Lemontov in the audience formed a huge triangle with her, which was firmly fixed on the wheel of fate. Lemontov, who gave her the red shoes, finally became the one who took her life. The real murderer, but the cowardly Crist is the culprit who gave her hope and made her despair. Life is too gorgeous and the stage is too luxurious. She finally became a bird swaying in the clouds and wind in the sky as these two men wished. Hua, achieved the dream of three people with the extreme leap. This is not only a visual feast, because the main support of this film is the magnificence of the music. If you watch it again, just relying on the music can completely restore this sad story.
Although the plot of the film jumps like a stage play, it is understandable for highlighting the details of characters, costumes, etc. Lermontov is angry with the female dancer who is about to get married, and there is one more housewife who is addicted to love. There is no congratulations after the great dancer, but in terms of knowing people and making good use of them, and seeing him become popular with unknown Vicky and Crist, it can be seen that he never said a word of love, but at the birthday party of his powerful men Feeling jealous, he smashed the mirror in his home with one punch, and asked to check other people's letters to learn about Vicky's current situation. This stubborn and stereotyped successful businessman is more like the pair of red shoes, maintaining his brilliance with the passion that burns the lives of others. In contrast, Crist has nothing but a narrow and selfish but romantic and tender love, even his own career. He is more like a child who hasn't grown up, and his jealousy and possessiveness towards Vicky eventually make Vicky collapse and die.
Even if it is so sad, if you can dedicate your life to the city, why not leave it to the living to tangle with the things that are not regrettable.
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