C'est La Vie

Emmitt 2022-03-22 09:02:18

In 1999, 20 years after his debut, Qi Yu made one of my favorite records - "C'est La Vie". I like this song, not because of the style, not because of the lyrics, but the simple but meaningful name of "C'est La Vie". C'est La Vie, French translation: This is life! A few words cover all the sighs that make people remember a bit of life, and this is all my understanding of the movie "Shall we dance?" (talk about love, dance).
This is my second time watching the movie "Shall we dance?" in depth. After that, I searched all available resources and finally found an available link. While writing these words, the movie data is slowing down. Slow transfer to my hard drive. I decided to keep all of this, to keep the throbbing and infinite aftertaste of my heart after watching the movie.
"Shall we dance?" (talk about love, dance) starring Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez are famous for their dancing in the film and television circle. I have seen Richard Gere in the famous movie "Chicago" "In the big show tap dance, and Latin beauty Jennifer Lopez's standard dance is not to mention. The only complete dance of the two in the film can be called the most exciting part of the whole film. With the combination of pop, Broadway musicals, tango, rumba, jazz and other dance styles and music styles, the film has many highlights. It really made me feel good. Of course, in my opinion, the highlight of this film is not the gorgeous national standard and Latin, but more of the understanding of family values ​​and career management.
The male protagonist, John Clark, is a famous lawyer in Chicago. He has a successful career and a harmonious family. He has a loving wife and a pair of excellent children. However, he is not happy in his heart, and his daily life is to go to work - to go home at two o'clock and one line, the pressure of work and the trivialities of the family make his life boring and lack of passion. Every day, he rides the same half of the subway home, like a clockwork alarm clock. It was one day in the subway who inadvertently raised his head and saw a woman with a face standing in front of the window with the advertisement of "Mitzi Dance Class" across the subway, her face full of sadness and loneliness. Every day after that, he would see her from the subway at this moment. Finally one day, curiosity inspired the man to jump off the subway midway and find the Mitzi dance classroom, and the woman was really Paulina, the teacher of the dance school. Then John signed up to learn dance and hoped to break his boring life. As a result, the clumsy John and two other men from the same period joined the ranks of learning ballroom dancing. However, it was Mrs. Mitzi, the founder of the Mitzi dance studio, who taught them how to dance, so John could only watch Paulina's back in the other classrooms from a distance. When Paulina finally taught, John implicitly expressed some of his feelings for Paulina, but Paulina sneered at him and almost gave up the idea of ​​learning dance. However, what changed John was not just because of Paulina. More and more friends appeared and dance learning was getting better. John found that dance brought him more passion. Work and life are not as boring as imagined. Every Wednesday dance class allowed John, who came home on time every day, to change his schedule. His wife also began to suspect her husband was cheating due to the influence of the female companions around her. She even asked detectives to investigate her husband, but found that her husband was actually learning dance. When secretly watching her husband participate in the Chicago Newcomer Dance Competition, the most expressions on the wife's face were surprise and disbelief. She had never seen her husband so comfortable and happy. Finally, the wife recognized her husband and returned to a harmonious family.
There are too many details in the movie to be moved. After his wife found out that her husband was learning dance behind her back but did not discuss it with herself, John said something too classic: If I love someone, I will not let her know that I am unhappy. It is this sentence that makes John look at his sleeping wife beside him tossing and turning secretly in the movie, and has a good echo. The wife's request for the detective to stop investigating her husband is a good example of the wife's grasp of the scale of avoiding a possible family conflict. Let me have to sigh: C'est La Vie! this is life! Family is not only a person's life, but there are too many beautiful elements in life for us to choose and give up. Responsibility is often the most solid foundation of a family and the perfect pillar for the continuation of life. Many scenes and details in the film can be found in our lives. As the so-called moving is everywhere, and life is moving everywhere.

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Shall We Dance quotes

  • Bobbie: So why did you all start dancing?

    Vern: I'm getting married in September. My bride said she'd like to see me lose a few pounds, thought the dancing might be good exercise. I told her it wouldn't work.

    [waitress gives him a hamburger and fries]

    John Clark: I think you're gonna win that bet.

    Chic: I'm here for the ladies, you know what they say about guys that can dance...

    Bobbie: Yeah, that they're great in bed.

    Chic: Right.

    Bobbie: Where do you hear this crap?

    Chic: Everywhere, everywhere the guys that can dance get the pick of the litter.

    Bobbie: I'm here for the big dance competition. All I need is a partner.

    [to John]

    Bobbie: so that leaves you.

    John Clark: What?

    Bobbie: You're the only one that hasn't said why you're dancing.

    John Clark: I'm dancing for exercise like Vern.

    Bobbie: Bull.

    John Clark: Because I'm lousy in bed like Chic. There I said it.

  • Paulina: The rumba is the vertical expression of a horizontal wish. You have to hold her, like the skin on her thigh is your reason for living. Let her go, like your heart's being ripped from your chest. Throw her back, like you're going to have your way with her right here on the dance floor. And then finish, like she's ruined you for life.

    Bobbie: [looking up from the floor] Yeah, why can't you do it like that?