Late one winter night, I saw the final "Pan Pacific Competition" on the screen, when the old man tearfully pulled the young son and tried to tear his heart out with trembling lips: Half of my life is fear, and I have the excitement of being hit.
Unfortunately, I could not see the beginning, but when I saw Scott put on the gorgeous clothes of the Spanish bullfighter and walk on his knees like an arrogant and strong bullfighter, the flash of light shot from behind him, and I saw freedom, domineering, and determination. I loved the dance that made me feel so passionate that I completely swept away my drowsiness.
However, when I was looking for this film, I was quite difficult, because Chinese the translation problem, I could not find the film correctly. It took me a year to finally find the clues, to find it, like a long-sealed wine, to taste.
Everything comes with a strong experimental style, from the rotation at the beginning of the film to the final powerful Spanish bullfighting dance, which can be seen everywhere, the passionate fantasy of the director's youth. It was director Buzz Ruhrmann's first film about the nature of song and dance, and it almost laid the groundwork for his later non-mainstream styles of Romeo and Juliet and The Moulin Rouge, and it was my favorite thing to see a director's first film, because there you would see how his passions and dreams were mixed in that furnace.
This is what I mean by "the first liberation."
There are all the questions of youth, there is freedom, there is rebellion, there is expectation, there is dreams, there is the impulse not to be afraid of everything, although that may not bring all the good that is expected, but I like that kind of persistence.
And, of course, love. In life, under the fear, there will still be love.
A little person, a woman who has never been looked at squarely, does not mean that she cannot become the fiery phoenix. Miracles, the energy that ordinary people are best at, but often overlook.
I saw them dancing by the train tracks, and I saw them clinging to the wire mesh. At that time, you really think that love is the most beautiful thing god has given to mankind.
My favorite clip, under the red curtain where the male protagonist chases the heroine with a face full of freckles to the stage, in the music of the singer Bonus Track", softly provoking Rumba, I watch like a mesmerized, unable to speak, unable to divert my eyes.
What do you do when the world presents certain rules in front of you? Do you follow through your ideas to the end, or do you believe the facts that most people believe.
This answer, I did not.
2009-9-13