"Every day that doesn't dance is a betrayal of life." After watching the entire movie, Nietzsche's words echoed throughout. The whole movie gives me a feeling that there is nothing that one song can't solve, and if one can't, then two. The music and accompanying dance are used throughout the film as a bridge connecting friendship, family, love and patriotic empathy for all.
At the beginning of the film, the heroine Maria came to the colonel's house to be a tutor. After Maria arrived, the colonel told her that 12 tutors had left before Maria's arrival, and the last teacher only stayed for two hours. just left. You can imagine what kind of naughty children this is, and sure enough, the children tricked Maria with a series of pranks. But on a night of thunder and lightning, the children hid together on Maria's bed, and Maria led them to sing to their heart's content. In the music, the children gradually accepted the kind and lovely Maria. After the colonel left, Maria took the children to play around. She got along with the children like friends, taught them to sing, and took them to indulge in dancing. In the short time the Colonel was away, Maria developed a deep friendship with the children because of the music.
The hero Colonel has always loved his children deeply, but he can't express it. And the kids have to keep playing tricks to get their father's attention. But when the children sang in front of the Colonel's fiancée the song Mary had taught them, and the Colonel came in to join them and sing along with them, the children finally felt the deep love of their father for them, and the father finally found a way to express him way of love. In the children's music and dance performances later, the colonel was sincerely proud of the children, and the children who received praise from their father also found a way to not make their father angry and to attract their attention. Music allows estranged relatives to let go of all barriers to each other and to bond closely together.
When the colonel saw Maria for the first time, Maria was dancing in the living room. Although he reprimanded her, the image of Maria quietly floated into his heart. A dance for the first time, and then another dance to fall in love. At the colonel's ball, in the courtyard under the moonlight, Maria, who was dancing to the music, was dressed plainly, but in the colonel's eyes, Maria's brilliance had already overshadowed his well-dressed fiancee. The two tacitly cooperated with a piece of Austrian dance music, and they looked at each other tenderly at the end, and the two of them had already been deeply involved in it but still pretended to be fine. Dance originates, dance originates. Colonel and Maria finally came together, music and dance fulfilled the most beautiful love.
In Austria, where the political situation is tense, there are two gatherings of people in the film. The first time was before the German-Austrian merger. People gathered at the Colonel's home. Here, everyone seemed to forget their troubles for a while and immersed themselves in music and dance. Although the space was limited, everyone danced simple dance steps and had a good time. One of the Austrian folk dances implies that everyone has a common sense of cultural identity, indicating that this nation will not be ruled by other nations. The second time was at the German-Austrian chorus competition. The colonel and his family sang the Austrian folk song "Edelweiss" together. Finally, all the Austrians sang together to remember their common national identity. The reason we are together is because we understand each other's deep feelings, which are carried in the songs we sang together and the dances we danced together.
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