The routines of inspirational movies are basically the same, but we are deeply moved again and again. The reason is that we are eager to draw energy from the stories of every ordinary person chasing dreams to fill our inner strong desire for success.
The coal miners' collective strike movement in the small town led to the loss of financial resources for the whole family, and the father and brother, who were coal miners, were influenced by traditional ideas and stereotyped that boys should learn something like boxing and football. As for ballet This kind of thing is only suitable for girls to play, so the opposition of the family has become the biggest obstacle to little Billy's dream. After a series of conflicts escalated, when Billy's dream was about to be dashed, his father finally realized Thanks to Billy's insistence, when the whole family's life was already down, they exhausted all their valuable possessions and gambled, as if sending their son to the best ballet school in the country for an interview, and the father's love instantly burst.
There are three interesting points in the plot of the film: the strictness and paranoia of the father in the early days were inherited from the grandfather in addition to the pressure of life, which can be seen from the 3 generations of boxing gloves; when the first interview opportunity was missed due to the obstruction of the family , Little Billy danced angrily all the way to a dead end and the dance stopped, which implies that without the support of the environment, it is difficult to achieve a bloody dream; in the boxing gym on Christmas Eve, in the face of his father's strong confrontation, little Instead of yielding, Billy bravely danced to express his resistance, which seems to imply that the power of the dream itself is the most effective weapon to destroy all resistance on the way to the dream and create environmental support.
In the final scene of the film, the amazing beauty of the adult Billy's flying dance in the spotlight is the most dazzling reward after the dream comes true. No matter how many ups and downs he has experienced along the way, it is worth it at this moment.
As an inspirational movie, if it can tell a story in a regular way rather than deliberately provocative, and can really move me, it can get full marks.
(PS: This film is very similar to Joe Johnston's "October Sky". It is also the story of a child from a coal miner's family who bravely pursues his dreams. There is also a father who has a paranoid dictatorship to understanding and support for his son's dream. The same moving and exciting, the difference is that a dream is a dancer, a dream is an astronaut, a fictional story, a real thing.)
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