Florence, played by Aunt May, is a music lover, but her singing is not in tune at all, she dares to give concerts, and even "outrageously" compares herself to Lily Pons, the famous coloratura soprano at the time.
Just like many people think that as long as you buy professional running shoes and equipment, you can become a fitness expert, Florence has selected an excellent pianist to accompany herself through the complicated recruitment process, and invited the top vocal music teacher for guidance, thinking that she is enough Strength to play a concert.
As soon as she opened her voice, the accompanist was startled, and when she heard that she was going to accompany her concert, she was afraid to quit her job.
In the film, Florence speaks loudly many times, and every time she is so frightened that she slips off the stool. Every note is very coincidentally out of tune, and with the giggling of a hen laying an egg, it is no wonder that the baroness, who is listening to the concert under the stage, rolls on the ground laughing.
Although there is no uniform standard for evaluating an opera, people still have the ability to distinguish between good and bad. Florence's "The Hen Laying the Eggs" can't be called good in any era, but her deep family background and 360° all-round love for her second husband have allowed her to have her own club and find top vocal music Home tutoring, eventually giving a concert at Carnegie Hall and leaving a mark on history.
If she was just playing around for a few days, I'm afraid people would forget about it after dinner, but she insisted on it all her life. Even when she was suffering from syphilis and her health was worrying, she still loved music regardless.
Perhaps it was this dynamism that infected the audience of that era and attracted the director to present the story.
Florence showed by herself that it is not difficult to do something extraordinary by yourself, but it is difficult to do it consistently for a lifetime.
The whole film has a total of 99 minutes, of which Florence sang for a long time 5 times, nearly 14 minutes. That is to say, when the audience is watching this film, more than 1/5 of the time is spent in Florence's singing. (I feel sorry for Aunt Mei, I don't know if I can sing well after this film is finished.)
This "worst opera singer in the world" has no idea what the outside world is saying about her, and she doesn't see the contempt and ridicule from the world at all. She is immersed in the music world she has created and cannot extricate herself from it.
All thanks to her second husband, Bayfield. Even if the piano accompanist told him Florence's vocal folds were not free, that the ventilation was irregular, and that the subglottic pressure was not medical, it was almost a disaster for the singer. But Bayfield doesn't care to say that, as Beethoven said, it's understandable to sing a few notes wrong, but it's not okay to sing without emotion.
This sentence points out the reason Florence went from a joke to a "classic" - emotion. Florence is like someone who spends her life laughing and spoiling music, but she sheds tears for being able to be with music.
Standing on the stage of the concert hall, she is free-spirited, exaggerated and full of emotion. Although she sang out of tune, she did not blaspheme the music itself, only the awe and devotion of the pilgrims to Mecca.
Florence is lucky, her wealth and second husband paved her a single-plank bridge with music at the other end. The road is not easy, but she just needs to move forward. Her singing and concerts may be a disaster in the history of opera, but her crazy obsession with music makes people see a little bit of cuteness and admiration.
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