"Can you tell me why I like dancing?"
- I don't know.
"Then can you tell me how you feel when you dance?"
- I don't know.
The interviewer sighed regretfully, and the little boy turned around, thinking and saying
- it feels good. It's a little stiff at first... but as soon as I dance I forget everything and then... as if it didn't exist, everything was gone, I felt my body changing, as if there was a fire in it, and there was nothing left I am alone, like a bird, flying. Like current, yes, like current.
With such a clumsy and simple answer, a young boy who fell in love with dancing just by feeling has stepped onto his own stage. Like electric current, it not only wakes up oneself, but also wakes up others.
The winter of 1984 was unusually cold for this British miner family. The long-term strike had no income, and the family was in hardship.
My father and brother are low-level miners in the UK. They participated in strikes and struggled in poverty, with violence and death every day; my grandmother was sometimes sober and sometimes confused, but when my grandson talked about dancing, he was a little regretful and a little proud. Speaking of "I used to be a dancer too"; the dead mother left behind an old piano and, of course, that touching letter.
The little protagonist in the film, Billy, has a young and innocent face and clear eyes, as pure as his love for dancing. Sleeping in the same room with my brother, chatting with my friends in class, taking care of my grandma at home, and fear of my father. These elements are all normal for an ordinary boy. It is because of this commonality that igniting hope is the greatest consolation for a family like him.
The long-term strike has no income. My brother and father are obviously violent. Their resistance to the government has spread to their lives. The family of four is very unhappy. Fortunately, he was only 11 years old at that time. At 11 years old, he still didn't have to work in a factory to support his family, so he could still dream. Dad asked Billy to learn boxing, thinking that boxing is what boys should know. He didn't like it, but just like we didn't like to do homework when we were young, if we didn't write it, we would be scolded by the teacher, so just write it casually, and he would appear in the boxing ring every week.
Inevitably by chance, due to poor performance in boxing class, he was punished by the coach for punching sandbags. At this time, Billy saw the girls practicing ballet next door, and he couldn't help adjusting the posture of punching sandbags with the accompaniment of ballet. He began to like ballet. , run over to watch them dance. Taking a pair of dancing shoes from Mrs. Wilkinson, the ballet teacher, he began to dance himself.
From the very first shot of Mrs. Wilkinson, I knew she would be the one in Billy's life that would bring him something. It seems that there is such a "strict teacher" around us, who is always strict and unsmiling, and guides us only with their daunting intellectual talents. "Do you like dancing? Oh, I thought you enjoyed it. It's okay, just do what you like" "If you don't come one day, give me your shoes back." These words, only they can say, and only they will help a child when he sees a lonely and confused child, and his role is always repeating, isn't it a kind of greatness?
From then on, Billy used the money from boxing lessons to secretly learn dance every weekend. Going to the library to borrow books, stealing his brother's rock cassettes, bathroom beds, yards and even the street have become his stage, which is a stark contrast to "miners, strikes, anger, cold winter". Maybe Billy doesn't know what he wants, but at least he knows what makes him happy. Ten years later, when Billy recalls this incident, he may suddenly say, "Oh, so my family and teachers did it for me. So many, so grateful to them, I'm happy." There may only be one chance to guide a child, but if he is lucky enough, this time will give him a different world.
His father and brother were furious when they found out, and Mrs Wilkinson's persuasion was of no avail. On Christmas night, Billy's father was going to call him home. I don't know where the courage came from. This little boy danced and expressed something to his father in his own way. I really cried, how stubborn people will also be moved by it. My father rushed to Mrs. Wilkinson's house and asked how to participate in the selection of the dance academy. Everyone should applaud. This dance not only won Billy's father's approval, but also his father and his friend Michel. Looking at ourselves, what can make us happy? Be true to your heart.
So my father, brother, grandmother, and neighbors all began to fully support Billy to study in London. His friend is a homosexual, and he did not shy away from telling others that he just wanted to be loyal to his heart and be a true self. In the end, before Billy left The kiss is to say goodbye in the closest way to Michel, Goodbye Dancing boy.
"Can you tell me why I like dancing?"
- I don't know.
"Then can you tell me how you feel when you dance?"
- I don't know.
The interviewer sighed regretfully, and the little boy turned around, thinking and saying
- it feels good. It's a little stiff at first... but as soon as I dance I forget everything and then... as if it didn't exist, everything was gone, I felt my body changing, as if there was a fire in it, and there was nothing left I am alone, like a bird, flying. Like current, yes, like current.
A few years later, my brother walked into the theater with his gray-haired father, and met Michel in women's clothing. Michel smoked a cigar and laughed and said, "How could I have missed his show?" Billy left. . . that scene.
The adult Billy, played by Adam Cooper, wears a snow-white swan dance suit and jumps to the center of the stage, as if from a lifetime.
Mom's letter seems to have been quietly opened again:
Dear Billy,
I know that to you, I am like a faded memory, which may be a good thing, because you are no longer sad, although I cannot watch you grow up, cry with you, laugh with you, and listen to you cry , I can't scold you, but I have been by your side and spent everything with you, always with you, I am proud of you, even more proud of you, always loyal to myself, and I will always love you. (Mom)
The coffee in my hand is cold, but the flowers in my heart are still blooming.
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