This film tells a very simple story, a young boy from being exposed to ballet to falling in love with dance and then overcoming external difficulties to be admitted to the Royal Ballet Academy and finally succeed. There are many profound social problems. The background of these social problems is the rapid economic revival of the United Kingdom. The film selects some of the more meaningful ones and combines them skillfully. In the rapid development of just a few decades, the use of agriculture as There is a revolution in the Lord's industry, and many people are lost and uneasy under the policy change, just like the British miners' strike in the film. <
The main line of the story revolves around a love movie about a little boy named "Billy". There are various emotions in the movie, such as the pure sprouting of boys and girls between Debbie and Billy The love between the dance teacher and Billy is the motherly sympathy between teachers and students, the rough and simple brotherhood between Billy's brother and Billy, and the generous father-son relationship between Billy and his father. There's Billy with granny, Billy and gay Eben that underpin this simple story.
The whole film is very smooth in one go. In this film, the director exerts the ultimate control of color. In the whole film, the use of blue is the most used. Blue sandbags, blue doors, blue represents melancholy and depression. In this film In one scene of the film, Billy and his father, grandma, and brother are celebrating Christmas, and they each wear a hat of a different color. Billy is wearing a green paper crown. Green symbolizes hope, vitality and vitality. The elder brother wears a yellow paper crown, which symbolizes vigilance, the father wears blue, which symbolizes depression and hesitation, and the grandmother wears a red paper crown. Red represents enthusiasm. The state of the film. In the arrangement and scheduling of the scene, the director also seems to be ingenious. The director set the venue for Billy’s training in front of the fighting ring, and the provocative props such as sandbags appeared many times in the back set. I think it is The director is implying that Billy is challenging the patriarchy. When the dance teacher visited Billy's house, Billy was forced to the table, and everyone was looking up at him. Does that mean that he will be looked up to in the future? There is a scene in the film that is not quite common sense. The warm and cloudy sky begins to snow. This is a hint to the distorted social reality at that time. It may also be the director's hobby of strong visual impact
. Details, the father made a snowman to urinate on his son on Christmas Eve, which means that the father never paid attention to his son's ideas before this, and what makes people feel more interesting is that the snowman was put on a hat after the father watched his son dance. ,"Hat" in this film should represent the father's recognition of Billy. In the end, the father gave up the strike without hesitation to support his son under the pressure of being scolded as a traitor. The father is not only because he loves his son, but also because his father was scolded as a traitor. The artistic beauty of ballet was deeply shocked. Some props were used just right in the film. The little swan on the table in Billy's room represented his dance dream.
The music in the movie is worth mentioning. Most of the music is soothing and gentle. In the scene of the miners' strike, when the police are approaching ordinary people with riot shields, the music is frivolous. It seems to be a joke and mockery of this state. There is also a bright spot in the film, the little girl who has been standing in the corner, watching these stories like a bystander from beginning to end. Why did the director set up this role? Where will this girl of Billy's age be when Billy flashes at the end of the film? Living in poverty or something else? When the miners in the whole British society were fighting against the Parliament, when everyone was carrying their own little things, she silently and comfortably explained everything, whether she was a witness of this era or an aphasia of this era, no one knows.
This film is not only an inspirational story, but also a story of struggle. The strike father and the union's struggle against the policy, Billy's struggle with his stubborn father, Billy's brother's struggle with sticking to conservative things, The dance teacher's struggle against the boring life, but the ending of the story is obscure. Although Billy became a successful dancer as he wished, it did not make people feel warm and happy at the end of the film. It was still a rich dark blue tone. Leigh succeeds, but the others have to continue to face the harsh truth. Billy's father has to go back to work, the dance teacher has to deal with a boring life, and his playmate has to accept the questioning of his homosexuality. Leigh's father, a man who had never been to London, when Billy was preparing for the audition, he stood in the doorway of the dance studio and reveled in the ballet performance, he was watching, this is a world he can't enter, he can only watch forever. This is the disappointment of the majority and the success of the few. The small details in this film also reflect the director's attitude. The dissatisfied dance teacher took Billy on a gondola and told the story of a princess who was not redeemed and succeeded , this story alludes to her own experience of frustration. Not every princess will meet a prince and live a happy life. In reality, only a small number of people can succeed, and only a small number of people can succeed.
The title of the film is a close-up of the record. , music - art, the story must be developed around art. Billy likes dancing, Billy's brother likes rock and roll, Billy's grandma once dreamed of becoming a dancer, Billy's mother and father have an indissoluble bond with the piano, but in the end only Billy realized it. Art has no borders, but artists have national borders. People who are separated from artists still have to face this reality. Success is a matter for a few people.
The ending of this film about growing up and chasing dreams does not feel so warm and happy. Although the majority are disappointed, we still have to work hard to become the successful few.
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