Invent the future

Enid 2022-04-20 09:01:43

I saw an English sentence today: The best way to predict the future is to invent it. In Chinese it means that the best way to predict the future is to create it. For Taylor, a rebellious young man living in the bottom society of Baltimore, with a father who is addicted to alcohol and a mother who is too busy to take care of his children, perhaps he has never thought about his dreams since he was a child, how to realize and create the future, for Taylor and his For black friends, stealing cars, trick-or-treating, hip-hop, basketball, and playing life, waiting for them is either a prison, or a corpse on the street like Taylor's black friend's brother.
Fortunately, Taylor is good at dancing, and unexpectedly came to the art school to do social service, and it happened that the heroine's male dance partner was injured, so it was a matter of course, Taylor, driven by art, love and the accidental death of his friend's brother, decided to dominate himself. Destiny, use dance to dance your future and dance your life.
The film integrates inspirational, love, dance, idol and other genres, and the dance in the film is even more energetic. But the director also seems to be trying to address themes of alienation and integration. From the interspersed street dance and the practice room of the art academy at the beginning, to the comparison of housing types and eating styles between the lower-class community and the aristocratic community, the lower-class and the aristocracy are distinctly different, but there is no higher or lower in terms of art and life values. The gangster who steals cars and shoots at will, the aristocratic villain who plagiarizes songs and monopolizes the creation rights, just like hip-hop and ballet art forms that can only appear one after the other, and there is no distinction between high and low. Hip-hop can dance with ballet, and white people can dance with ballet. Black people are integrated, and the lower-level teenagers can fall in love with aristocratic girls. This is another American dream that promotes freedom, democracy, and tolerance.
Anyway, you have to invent your future by stepping up.

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    Miles Darby: Sophisticated? A real man? Yeah, his butt is gonna be surrounded by sophisticated in jail. How long you had your license? 6 months? 7?

    Lucy Avila: I am very mature for my age. Thank You.

    Miles Darby: Oh yeah, that's great! That's so perfect for the witness stand!

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