Well it's Saturday night and I just got paid
It's so cool, I just got my salary on Saturday night
A fool about my money, don't try to save
I don’t feel the money, and I don’t plan to save it.
My heart says go go, have a time
My heart is yelling, hurry up and play, have a good time
'Cause it's Saturday night babe and I'm feelin' fine
Because this is Saturday night fever, baby, it feels so cool
After watching this "Weekend Night Fever" for the first time two years ago, I was very excited. I translated this song "Rip it up" by Elvis. The song of Elvis has nothing to do with this movie, but it describes everything. It was the most fashionable way of life for young people at that time: there are dances today, and you can only call happiness after spending all your wages. I want the dance floor to burn for me and the girls to scream for me! Even if adults see me as trash for nothing, I still shine the most on the dance floor! This kind of timely enjoyment, abandoning the traditional family view or cultural roots of rebellion, will not be in vain to live young. It seems that the director is making a very fashionable movie, but as the plot progresses, he has penetrated into the core of this young culture: Does the fashionable and rebellious you think really free you from the shackles?
The most exciting part of this movie is the character analysis and shaping. The plot is actually relatively simple. Let’s start with the protagonist, the King of Dance. This is really the handsome guy from the street. Although he was born in a poor street, he doesn’t care about himself. In the future, working as a painter, he will go to the discotheque every weekend and night to conquer the dance floor. Although his parents are extremely dissatisfied with him, he believes that his attitude towards life can truly enjoy freedom more than a good student brother who conforms to the rules. He is proud of being a family. In the shadow of the older brother of Pastor Xueba, he is a waste wood, but this waste wood is very talented in dancing, so he is addicted to the disco, the place that gives him a sense of existence. In his heart, dancing is sacred, it is a way for him to get rid of family pressure, but in fact, most people who clubbing do not regard this thing very importantly, just as a holy place for dating, most of them ask him to dance. All of the women just want to have sex with him, because he is the dance king of that piece, women regard this as the capital of showing off, but he solemnly refuses, because he dances not to pick up girls. Until he met the "Manhattan Girl", this woman was also born in the lower-level community, but yearned for the upper-class society of Manhattan. Her dance was very good, but her mouth was full of "high-class language", which made the dance king think of her. Snobbish and ridiculous, why do you pursue such an "excellent life"? Can't it be true? Our backgrounds are similar, isn't it good to just enjoy our youth like this? Why do you want to force yourself into a world that does not belong to you? The first half of the movie shows the true temperament of the dancer and the posture of this woman, which makes people involuntarily hate such a "secular woman".
There is no shortage of beautiful women by the dance king's side. There was a lovely-looking woman who was his dancing partner at first, but repeatedly requested that the dance king did not sleep with her. Later, the dance king’s female partner was changed to a Manhattan girl. Their cooperation is more tacit. Driven by jealousy, you don't want anyone who wants to be sent to your door. Is it because I don't want a man to like it? She was in the back seat of the car and slept with some of Dancing King’s buddies. Dancing King was very angry and said to her, "Now you are a prostitute." The same evaluation also happened to Manhattan girls, when Dancing King discovered this A woman was able to gain a foothold in Manhattan because she became a junior. After owning an apartment, her attitude towards her was not as good as before. She tried to force a relationship in the car and was pushed away by the woman. He scolded angrily: "You are just a prostitute! "At the beginning of the movie, the King of Dance's evaluation of all women is shown: a girl must decide whether she wants to be a woman (marriage object) or a prostitute. The movie is very cruel to show a woman who wants to leave Brooklyn to pursue independence. She does not want to be the kind of woman defined by this community. The final way to gain freedom is still betraying the flesh and her mouthful life of a classy person. , Is exchanged in a mean way, so she can only dance in the community of the inferior to satisfy her vanity of "the superior". The so-called drunken fan in Manhattan, it just makes you "voluntarily" to become you The person who didn't want to be the last person, let you be a decent beggar.
The film’s presentation of "home" is ubiquitous. The United States is a multi-ethnic country, and Brooklyn is also like this. The young people in the film live in Italian communities. In the traditional concept of Italians, religion and family are the same. It’s more important, so the Xueba brother who became an excellent pastor is naturally the pride of the family, making the whole family feel that he is one step closer to “God”, but one day the brother who studied in Italy returned to the United States and told his parents that he had resigned I don't want to be a pastor anymore. The whole family is in grief. Only the King of Dance supports his brother, thinking that he is brave enough to get a new life! We young people don't want to be restrained by religion, let's dance on the dance floor! When he took the priest to the discotheque, the whole ballroom seemed to have pressed the pause button. Everyone stopped and took a look at the priest. Although he was not in uniform, neighbors in the neighborhood knew him because he was wearing a priest's uniform all the year round. In his photo, he wanted to be an ordinary pastor watching young people dancing. A younger brother of the King of Dance asked him for advice, saying that he had enlarged a girl’s belly. Her family was a devout Catholic and could not have an abortion, so He had to marry her, but they were too young to love each other and didn't want to get married. He asked the pastor if abortion was appropriate? The pastor hesitated and said that an abortion was not allowed, but after saying that he was very upset, because he had left the priesthood and he still said what the pastor should say. In fact, this sentence was against his will. He was very clear in his heart. In his "home", in this community, he can't be an ordinary person, he can only be a priest, so he left Brooklyn the next day to find true freedom. Only by leaving here can he be what he wants to be. people. Before he left, he left the priest's uniform to his younger brother. The King of Dance did not understand his brother's meaning, and put the priest's uniform around his neck to pretend to hang himself, thinking that this suit made people unfree.
The little brother who was forced to marry by the family finally committed suicide on the Brooklyn Bridge. After this incident, the king of dance began to really think. He took the subway all night and thought about the suicidal little brother, young people like us who pursue freedom, think Do whatever you want. Don't be the person your parents expect me to be. To be able to break free from the bondage of my family, just lie flat. Is this really the case? In the dance competition, it was clear that Puerto Ricans danced better than me, but the gold medal was awarded to me because they are not a "family". My "Dance King" title is just an illusion given to me by relatives in the neighborhood. I just Frog at the bottom of the well, is this the freedom I pursue? In the same family in this community, the sense of security you can feel is just to flatter and deceive each other. If you work as a painter for a lifetime, no one will despise you, because everyone is a "family", but this kind of meaning in life has another meaning in life. Where is it? So he found the Manhattan girl again, and he suddenly understood why she was fighting to leave the "Brooklyn, who is in love with each other," because family affection can also kill. This woman said to him, can you treat me as a woman, let us Start with friends? The King of Dance, who is bound by traditional concepts, believes that women cannot be friends, and that women are only marriage objects or sex objects. He expressed that he can slowly begin to accept this brand-new view that breaks through tradition. The ending of the film is that they hold their hands together, understand and communicate with each other.
For young people to really think about what freedom is, the director’s perspective is very three-dimensional. His main point is that you have to truly independent the shaping of your family concept in order to gain self-worth, not just "I resist it, I Attacking it, I do the opposite of it" means that I really have an attitude and thinking. That is not true thinking. Sometimes young people think of rebelliousness, but they still turn around in the things he opposes. It's just that he himself I can’t see it, just like the Manhattan girl in the movie. She thinks she can get a new life after leaving Brooklyn, but she adapts to the “big environment” of Manhattan. She is just adapting to the environment without thinking about herself, so she just Going out of the shackles of the family and entering the shackles of the society. Only when you gradually get rid of the shaping of your environment, realize what you really want in your heart, and bravely pursue the voice in your heart, can you gain self-worth instead of becoming an "eternal young man" in this environment. .
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