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on the surface of this film is the kind of know from the outset how to have a good outcome, then tricky plot, lively rhythm, the theme of children up inspirational film.
Only after I saw it, I knew it was really more than that.
Here is another great sacrifice of father. How does a family who lost a mother go from being hostile to understanding. The love of father and son. The love of mother and child. Brotherly love. How does a teacher face life as a woman who lacks love at the same time. A little despair and many hopes. To exaggerate, there are also premature love, homosexuality, class antagonism and communism. They were all naturally revealed in front of us through the life of a little boy who doesn't like boxing and ballet, Billy Elliott.
Of course, the most important thing is that the film describes how individuals find themselves to be themselves, two boys and a woman. One is more tortuous, one is simpler, and one is heavier.
1. Billy
artistic temperament should be the kind of talent, it is born, buried inside you wake up at any time to wait. A real artist cannot be created, but can only be discovered. So Billy, the coal miner's son, likes ballet without a reason, dance is lurking in his blood.
His obstacles are also natural. In a remote industrial town, public opinion from his family and the environment insists that boys ballet is a sissy, which is a matter of character and honor. So he did his best to interfere roughly. Billy wavered more than once, but he finally listened to his heart. Just like the letter left by the dead mother said: Be yourself.
Billy's self can only be realized in dance. He said that he was extremely happy when he danced, forgetting everything, as if a fire was rising in his chest, like flying, like electric current.
In fact, no matter whether he succeeds or not, Billy is a happy child, because not everyone knows where his ego is.
The sage has already pointed out that a person and a person's self are completely different things. Everyone is a potential giant, but they often appear as a dwarf. Everyone is a king, but he often forgets the identity of the king and wanders outside his kingdom all year round.
The relationship between a person and oneself is like the relationship between water and the sea. Many people are alive, living far away from his inner ocean, so that they do not realize the existence of this ocean at all.
Billy is a born prince, he knows what kind of king he wants to be, and dance is its vast territory.
2. Mike, Mike and Billy
Here to talk about the second king, Mike. In fact, he has very few points in several supporting roles. But he left a very deep impression on me, and some plots related to him showed the director's extraordinary handwork.
Mike is a gay and has always loved Billy deeply. It was discovered that Billy was learning ballet, and Mike was the only one who supported him. Even if Billy tells him that he likes ballet does not mean that he is also gay, the two of them must not be as he wishes. Mike still silently put Billy's frozen hand in his arms to warm him.
Through the conversation between Billy and Mike, the film hints that Mike’s father is a transvestite, and maybe a homosexual, but it is conceivable that in such a boy learning ballet is a wicked environment, although there are family ties, Mike’s What happens if homosexuality is discovered.
And we saw Mike in the film, except for asking Billy not to tell others about his homosexuality, he did not show the slightest doubt about his sexual orientation, pain, humiliation, struggle, and other self-distorting meanings from beginning to end.
The unswerving emotions of Billy and Mike are the most moving scene in the film. Billy is really a kind and noble boy, manifested in his tolerance, free and easy, and true feelings.
It may be more valuable to identify with others pursuing others' self than to insist on one's own self. Billy did it. He knew that Mike was gay and liked him. At first, he felt a little weird, but he didn't dislike him. Later, he took Mike to his practice room and put him on the swan skirt he had been longing for.
Billy is a very affectionate child. You treat me with true affection, and I will return with true affection to you. An interesting contrast appeared in the film. Billy likes girls, but indifferent to the curiosity of the teacher and his daughter's sexual provocation, he kisses Mike meaningfully when he is parting. The sincere emotion from the heart is what Billy thinks is the most important and precious.
The camera flashed, and the end was many years later. Dad and brother were excited to watch Billy perform in the city. By this time Billy had grown up and became an excellent ballerina. In the auditorium, we suddenly found an adult Mike, dressed in women's clothing, and a handsome black guy beside him, very intimate.
Many things have been omitted from the camera. We have no way of knowing, but we can imagine what kind of hardship and persistence Mike has experienced. In any case, he sits there, as he likes, openly and happy. His eyes are still full of tenderness, and Billy's brother said: I will not miss each of his performances.
At this time, I really liked the director of this film. He didn't forget Mike, so that he could realize himself happily and found his own love. Billy, Mike, they all became who they wanted to be.
What a beautiful result this is.
3. The teacher, the teacher and Billy
third person is to say Billy's teacher. A woman with a charming appearance and a strong and capable woman. She comes from a middle-class family different from Billy. Love has become a youthful past. In order to maintain the family, she silently accepted her husband's extramarital affairs. Being a ballet teacher at the Youth Activity Center only once a week is the only wave in her stagnant life and the only outlet for her to vent her inner depressed emotions.
She has endured and resented. In her mouth, the story of Swan Lake ended with the prince betraying the princess, and the princess died of sorrow. This is a woman who no longer believes in love. Such a woman usually stays away from passion and bury her own desire deeply. But when she saw a young life appearing in front of her with the light of genius and ignorant desire, the self-consciousness in the woman was strongly awakened. She hopes to inject the life force that she has buried for a long time into this boy, then his realization will be her happiness, and his high flying will also be her break free.
When Billy couldn't stand the intensity of the training and berated the teacher for taking advantage of him for himself, the strong-looking woman wept bitterly. In such a violent collision of hearts, boys and women, students and teachers, finally reached a tacit understanding in their hearts.
At the end of his adulthood, Billy jumped on the stage in Swan Lake. The love of the prince and the princess defeated the demons and they lived happily together.
Without telling us that the teacher's life has changed, I privately recalled the period when Billy's father visited the teacher. I secretly expected something to happen between them.
That's it. Although the strike failed, Billy's father and brother would go down to the dark ground day after day in exchange for a meager salary-the director did not avoid the gray parts of life. But after all, people are fighting, working hard, some people sacrifice, and some people will surely ascend to their throne.
Everyone is a king, but some people have forgotten the identity of the king, wandering outside their own country all year round, and never even searched and worked hard. Ask yourself, is this the missing one?
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