Is it a gripping plot conflict?
Or is it the emotion that flows silently in the image?
Is Zhang Chi's staggered picture editing?
Or an appropriate soundtrack?
I don't know which aspect impresses me the most, so I ask myself every time.
But I know that every aspect of "Billy Elliot" is done very well, or to put it conservatively, it makes me very comfortable...
the town of Hongwapo Road and the rough gray mining area, the cold steel bridge and the poignant "Swan" "Lake" symphony, the gray light in the warehouse-like community hall, and the boy with thin arms and legs bathing in it, he has a tender and delicate but extremely restless heart.
The director did not make a special comparison. All contradictions are so natural. The miner’s son fell in love with ballet. He danced like a bird, like an electric current, and his spirituality seemed to be born with him... He was not like a grumpy father and irritable. Brother, the latter have been worn out by the boredom of life, patience and tolerance, three sentences must have a Fuck...Although the temperaments are very different, but the three of them miss their mother very much, but only Billy has not learned to hide it. .
Billy's hobby was so untimely discovered, as if he was making trouble for his father. The "swan's wings" had already been slapped with a big hand before they stretched out.
Before Christmas Eve came, my father smashed the piano left by my mother. It was not so much to get firewood as a kind of vent by the father, cursing life, cursing the fruitless strike, cursing the music of happiness, cursing the vague. tomorrow.
Then there were sighs and tears. After the piano sobbed, it could only crackle in the fireplace. His mother had inherited Billy's artistic genes and a delicate heart, but could not accompany him to protect him. The mother's letter, which Billy had read thousands of times, had already been memorized. He showed it to the teacher who taught him dancing, sharing his thoughts, and the troubles that couldn't be told in a few words seemed to be a lot easier.
The background of the film is similar to "Six Heroes of Light Pigs", the prolonged economic depression and workers' strikes, the life pressure of the little people, violent, helplessness and embarrassment. Seeing the father-son relationship in the movie reminds me of many other movies, such as "Death Poetry Society", "October Sky", and the publicity "Sunflower". I thought of many people, those broken wings, and thought of the older sister who was sitting at the end of the street and breastfeeding her child. She said she wanted to play drums back then...
Who said that teenagers didn't know how to worry? How can you regret being with you for life?
Billy can forget the sorrows and worries, that is in the dance, the whole person seems to disappear in the swing of indulgence, a kind of dream flying intuition, he hasn't even had time to figure out which profession is better as a dancer or a miner. He wants to dance! When suddenly he was "caught" by his father again-he was no longer cowardly, and almost danced like a puff! As if to say, this is what I dance, this is the happiness I choose!
The father was dumbfounded, completely shocked by his son's talent. As always, he avoided his son's sight and ran wildly, hiding his face, not knowing whether he was hiding his tears or regretting his own arbitrariness... the
story is not over. In order for his son to successfully enter the Royal Academy of Dance, his father had no choice but to give up going on strike and start working to earn money, becoming a trade union traitor that he once despised. When I watched this movie again, I observed the father's behavior more closely. He didn't want to engrave bitterness on his face, like a steel nail, but eventually had to twist himself.
"Swan Lake" on the stage is about to play. In another scene, the conveyor is sending father and brother down the mine. Need to sigh? Is it because of the difference in destiny, or the deep affection of family? If only maternal love is like the sea, let father's love be like the earth!
Watching it again, I once again felt that a film of more than 100 minutes contained so many emotions:
Billy's thoughts, dedication to dreams, longing for his mother and confusion about death;
female dance teacher who loves to smoke, although in Life becomes rough, but protects Billy like a mother, and at the same time is humorous;
the hazy feeling between the little girl of the dance teacher and Billy;
The "girl" friend who has been encouraging Billy to put her cold hand on her chest on the snow in winter night;
"I will miss you!" The elder brother who had always cursed shouted affectionately outside the car, but Billy couldn't hear him clearly;
There is also a grandma who is not very clear in her mind. She always said to Billy, "Actually, I can be a Dancer." Hehe, such a grandma seems to be in many movies, such as the old woman in the Korean movie "Don't Believe Her". , Really kind. As for the feeling of family, things are connected!
The plot is also discussed, and the feelings are also discussed. About the picture? There are also many commendable points. For example, the subjective shot of Billy looking up at the ceiling after entering the dance academy lobby shows a kind of dizziness and at a loss; another example is a family in front of the fireplace on Christmas Eve. A mirror ensures that everyone’s face is in the frame, so that it is not dull. At the same time, the camera is still, creating a silent atmosphere...maybe you will find more interesting places when you look at it again. Of course, the most applauding one is Billy's dance. Basically, the dance pieces that focus on performance have a dynamic tap style. The cutting of the picture is also very rhythmic, especially the part where the brother and the riot police are dealing with each other. The music is also very expressive. Classical palaces, Broadway operas, rock and jazz folk songs are all on the battlefield. My favorite thing is that concerts often start and end with the change of space, and the music stops abruptly when the door is closed, and when they are outdoors, they still start at that point, and the mood is consistent. An explosion in the protagonist's heart was accompanied by a roar in rock music. This approach seems to be often encountered in British movies, such as the "No" in "Detective Ending Thorns".
Like the ending song:
If you can't choose what to be
You can choose what to dream,
maybe this is the sentence I want to summarize the most after saying so many trivial things!
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