In 1984, when the British miners went on strike, the boy Billy's brother fought with his father on the front line of the strike. His father used to be a boxer. He believed that boys should be strong and practice boxing. In addition to his grandmother, he also learned boxing at his father's friend's club. By chance, Billy mixed into the ballet class next door, and the crisp piano played the jumping notes that Billy couldn't help dancing with a group of girls. Wilkinson, the ballet teacher, is a smoky, rather maverick woman, and perhaps the same is true, she saw that Billy, who was dancing for the first time, was very talented. Since then, Billy will hide ballet shoes under his clothes, go out to ballet lessons with boxing gloves on, and even dance happily on the road. Soon, Billy's father found out that his son was secretly studying ballet. He didn't understand why his son liked ballet, a "woman's thing", and rudely rejected Ms. Wilkinson, who came to recommend Billy to participate in the audition of the Royal Academy of Dance. , Billy had to make an agreement with the teacher to teach secretly. Billy's friend Mike is a handsome and somewhat rebellious little boy. Billy told him that he secretly learned ballet, but he accepted it surprisingly calmly, and became Billy's number one fan. One winter night, Billy broke out with anger and unwillingness. At this time, the soundtrack was the sad and heroic "Swan Lake". Billy danced a shocking dance in front of his father, and his father was stunned. , finally believe what Ms. Wilkinson said - Billy is a genius. In order to pay Billy's tuition, his father gave up his long-standing position as a worker and joined the factory. He became an unpopular traitor in the strike team, and because of this, he collected the tuition and took Billy to London to attend the Royal Academy of Dance's Zhen try. The day Billy received the acceptance letter, everyone was happy for him, and it was also one of the most moving moments in the film. The father, who was originally against his son's dancing and even smashed the piano at home to cut off his idea of dancing, always The elder brother who spoke ill of Billy with his fists, the boxing coach who once said that Billy humiliated his father, and the workers who went on strike with Billy's father, all of them had different positions, but all the insistence was in the youth. Dreams and persistence turned into friendly support, sending the same blessing to Billy.
In addition to inspirational and family topics, the film also involves social and political issues, precocious childhood and obscure gender issues, with some vague heaviness, a touch of sadness and a touch of hazy sweetness. Guardian, it makes people feel the greatness of dreams and love. The film won the 2001 British Academy Film Award for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress. A short story outline cannot make one experience the delicate emotional transformation and the alternative freshness of the dialogue. How the film achieved such a result requires readers to find the answer in the film themselves.
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