(Excitedly, I opened the gift box and found that it contained a lump of poop - after the movie "Then We Danced")
Welcome to the movie talk, I am a "cat" who loves to sleep and loves movies.
Not long ago, while searching for a movie, "Cat" accidentally saw a movie poster with a male dancer in a red costume dancing.
Poster for the movie "Then We Danced"
Because "Cat" just wrote an article that explores why the movie "The Color of Pomegranates" is incomprehensible. At the time of writing that article, the "cat" developed a deep interest in the folklore of the Transcaucasia region, so when he saw this movie poster, he instinctively developed a fondness for the film. So, "Cat" couldn't help but take the time to watch the movie.
XX and OO
After watching it in one breath, "Cat" feels that there is not much to say about the film itself, which is nothing more than the usual routine of the American film: using a beautiful picture to tell the mental journey of a pair of handsome men from resistance to acceptance (bending) each other.
However, just as the "cat" turned off the computer and was about to take a bath, the clothes were half off, and an idea suddenly popped into his head. So the "cat" immediately opened the computer to verify, haha, sure enough... Almost fooled by the bad guys! This movie is not nothing to say, on the contrary, this movie deserves to be written by "Cat" to expose how sinister it really is.
The movie "Then We Danced" was filmed in 2019. Interestingly, in 2018, a year before the film's release, a documentary called "Georgia's Dance Revolution" was filmed, and what is even more imaginative is that the producer of this documentary is called "BBC".
Seeing this, the small partners who pay attention to current politics may vaguely foresee what the "cat" wants to say. Let's put aside the movie for a moment and first look at this documentary called "Georgia's Dance Revolution" about the god horse thing.
LGBT protest crowds
In its documentary The Dance Revolution in Georgia, the BBC describes the repression of LGBT (a general term for non-normative sexual orientations such as homosexuals, bisexuals, etc.) by the Georgian government, conservative extremist groups, georgian Orthodox Churches and other "evil forces". The BBC's original intention in making the documentary was: "We want to know why these conservative forces can stand so confidently in front of the freedom fighters." I want to find out, who is standing behind these people? "Good guys," the Freedom Fighters vs. "Forces of Evil," this episode seems to have been seen somewhere.
"Evil Police"
Following the script, the BBC first showed the audience the brutal crackdown on LGBT groups by the Georgian police.
Collective bungee jumping
LGBT groups gathered in Georgia's Congress Square to express their dissatisfaction with the government's crackdown on "freedom" in a collective "civilized" way.
Conservative radical groups
The LGBT group Congressional Bundi's actions infuriated conservatives, and conservative militant groups with Nazi leanings came to the line.
The weak are oppressed
Then the BBC reporter interviewed the two sides of the conflict in the form of a "Chinese bar". We want to find a character who is "weak, helpless and pitiful" at first glance, crying about how the place bullies itself. The guy said he just opened a gay club where people were buying and selling drugs, and that was all. The Georgian police rushed into the club to arrest people in such a small matter, which is simply a cruel oppression of the people's "freedom". (Someone who sells drugs can't be caught by the police?) ）
Radical conservative group leader
After that, we will interview some enemy radicals. First make some flags and armbands that look like Nazis as props, and then let the "enemy leader" make some extreme anti-gay remarks, preferably to portray the enemy as a nationalist or mentally ill. What if I can't find the right interviewee? Spend money to hire one!
Third-party civil society organizations
After that, a so-called third-party civil society organization is asked to show that the BBC is doing neutral, rational and objective reporting, and this private organization will provide a research report to tell the audience who is behind the various conflicts and tragedies.
Everything is done by Russia
Then the reporter threw out the conclusion: these extremist organizations in Georgia and the Orthodox Church and other "evil organizations" are all groups funded by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and everything is a ghost of Russia. (BBC's logic: it all depends on Russia, and if you really can't talk about Russia, it's China's doing it.) ）
paata
Let's take a look at the bizarre theories promoted by the Georgian LGBT community in the film. The elder brother above, paata, is an advocate for drug control mitigation regulations. His view was that drug control regulations should be reduced, that drug use was nothing more than the freedom of the people, and that prisons could not help drug addicts, and that he knew how to help them.
(As a general viewer, looking at the older brother's wilted face with too much marijuana, "Cat" had a hard time believing that he could help any addict, including himself,) ）
Strange brother
The older brother's theory is even more bizarre, he believes: "Strict drug control laws are the last weapon of the government to restrict people's freedom." And without any evidence, he said: "Russia is using their corrupt system to poison all the pro-Western, liberal things in the world." ”
(The "cat" suspects that the old man's drug use has broken his brain, and that the government's crackdown on drugs is a restriction on people's freedom??? The "cat" may be older, and really can't understand this novel avant-garde theory, and it can't be heard. ）
Great old girl
The girl said in an interview: "Soviet ideology still influences here and I am glad we were able to fight it. ”
(Well, drugging and homosexuality turned out to be a means of confrontation with the Soviet Union.) The problem is that the Soviet Union has been disintegrating for many years, old girl, your brain... ）
Free Brother
The old man said, "We are free, and we must be free." ”
("Cat" thinks the older brother should ask the BBC if the men in Her Majesty's house have the freedom to take drugs and engage in sex?) ）
The sky is tumultuous
At the end of the film, under the sunset sky, birds occasionally fly by. The voice-over repeatedly played a slogan: "If we dance together, then we should fight together." This is where the title of the movie "Then We Danced" comes from, but it is actually a political slogan.
Seriously, after watching the BBC documentary, the cat can't get the of this freedom advocated by the BBC at all, on the contrary, the cat feels that this so-called freedom should not be called degenerate?
Georgian dance
Looking back at the movie "Then We Danced", as one of the series of works that "systematically subverted the Georgian national culture", the director retained the theme of homosexuality and deliberately downplayed the topic of drugs. This makes the film more obscure and more acceptable in conveying the theme of "freedom".
The content performance of the film is basically the same as the routine of the BBC documentary. The director also divides the characters in the film into two factions: the "conservatives" represented by the "leader" and the "manager", and the "liberals" represented by Mehrab.
Male protagonist Merab
At the beginning of the film, a main member of the Georgian National Dance Troupe named Zaza is expelled from the dance troupe for engaging in a base with an American, and the dance troupe decides to select a member of the reserve team as a replacement, and the whole story revolves around this premise.
Head
When the leader danced with her dance partner Mary, the leader pointed out that Merab always danced softly, and Mary's eyes were too playful. The regimental commander told them both: "To dance the Georgian dance, the man should be as tough as a stone tablet, and the woman should express innocence." ”
Dance company manager
After watching Merab dance, the manager of the dance troupe asked Merab, what is Georgian dance? Grubb replied "traditional." The manager told Mehrab: "Georgian dance does not mean the pursuit of perfection, it is the soul of our nation." ”
This seemingly spurred on, but it was actually a blow to Merab. Mehrab has the skills to dance, but he lacks the tough temperament that a Georgian male dancer must have.
The emotions are exuberant
And the short-lived passion with the new player Irakli became the trigger for Merab's eventual collapse. Faced with a same-sex love affair with Mehrab, Irakli eventually chose to back off and fled the city on the grounds that his father was seriously ill.
After Irakli leaves, a sad Mehrab blends into the LGBT community and is bumped into by another competitor of the company while partying with the LGBT group.
The next day, the rumor that Merab was a dead guy spread in the troupe. The drunken Raab injured his ankle because he gambled with the leader in training, which also doomed Merab's Georgian dance road to be completely finished.
The regimental commander talked to Merab and earnestly advised Merab to abandon the selection of the main regiment. The leader told Merab: "Georgian dance is to show manhood, the original Kintuli and Arza dances are softer, but we changed it 50 years ago, Georgian dance does not allow weakness to exist. ”
50 years ago? Georgia was a member of the Soviet Union 50 years ago. So, none of this is Mehrab's fault. As a professional dancer, Merab was thin, smoked, drank, bounced all night, and sprained his foot because of a hangover, these are not his faults, these are all manifestations of his "freedom". And the culprit who ruined the dreams of the Merab dancers was the Soviet Union???
After such a big circle, the director secretly pulled out the main theme of the film: bad things depend on Russia!
Mehrab
However, Merab did not heed the advice of the leader and participated in the audition with a foot injury, and Merab wore the ancestral performance of his old lover Irakli and took feminine dance moves to humiliate the troupe manager fiercely.
The manager angrily said, "He's insulting Georgian, chop his hands!" Then slammed the door and left. Of course, no one would actually chop off Merab's hand.
"Girlfriend" Mary
In the applause of his girlfriend Mary, Merab finished the competition. Wait, "girlfriend"? How can the male protagonist of a beautiful movie have a "girlfriend"?
This is one of the big weird things about the film. As Melab's dance partner and girlfriend, Mary has always behaved inseparably after Merab's "bending". After Irakli left, Mary "straightened" Merab again. The two agreed to leave this hopeless and decaying country and go to "free" England to pursue their dreams, yes, to Britain.
I'm going to the UK to clean the toilet, happy!
The story has a "prince and princess living happily ever after" ending: "The free" dancer Merab defeats the Georgian National Dance Troupe, which represents "decay.". However, the film does not tell young Eastern European audiences that without skill, Eastern Europeans can do nothing in Britain except sewers and be a lady.
The director portrays Merab as an "anti-traditional" hero, while the manager of a dance troupe who adheres to the Georgian dance tradition becomes a decadent "fascist." What's even more ridiculous is that Sweden, which made the film, and Britain, the home of the BBC, which preached "anti-traditionalism" all over the world, still feed the king with the people's money.
After watching this film, it is easy for the general audience to leave an impression: Georgia's national culture has been "artificially reformed" by the Soviet Union, it is repressive, decaying, and not worthy of protection. This is the sinister aspect of the film, which implicitly attacks the traditional culture of the Georgian nation in a very sinister manner.
Geographical location of Georgia
So, does the Georgian dance, as the leader of the film put it: "The original Kintuli and Arza dances are softer." ”
The Cat has not studied the evolution of Georgian dance, but, historically, it is impossible for the Georgian nation to allow a hint of weakness. Looking at the map, Georgia, which has a population of only a few million people, has survived for more than a thousand years in the gap between the two major fighting nations in the world, and fighting wars is even more commonplace. In World War II, as many as 90 Georgians won the title of National Combat Hero of the SOVIET Union, and the dance of this nation will show weakness? Many people may forget that Stalin, the famous ruthless man of the 20th century, was a Georgian.
Georgian ruthless Stalin
The gradual "feminization" of the Georgian nation began precisely after the collapse of the Soviet Union and when the Georgian government chose to be pro-Western. In 2008, at the instigation of the West, Georgia fought a war with Russia. In front of the Russian army, the once brave Georgians became vulnerable, the Georgian government asked the West for help, and the Westerners saw that the Russians moved the real thing, and they did not dare to put one. At this point, Georgia has seen the face of the West and has chosen to remain relatively neutral in the game between the East and the West, and the conservative forces in Georgia have begun to rise. Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, Westerners re-took out the magic weapon of the housekeeper: "color revolution.".
Color revolutions in the USSR
The right to speak in the world is in the hands of Westerners, who use television, the Internet, newspapers, novels, and even movies, sports and other platforms to systematically carry out cultural infiltration of "disobedient" countries; subtly ugly, negate the culture and traditions of this country, so that the people of this country lose their cultural identity and fall into collective loss. Imagine if Georgia's LGBT groups were eventually mainstream under the "liberalism" advocated by the West, and homosexuality and drug addiction became "fashionable" in the eyes of young people, it would be much easier for such a state to control.
Russia was almost crippled by the West with this method, but fortunately a strongman appeared in time to reverse the situation. Russia's neighbor Ukraine was not so lucky, and they even "freely" elected a comedian as president. Once the world's third-largest military power, it now survives by exporting prostitutes to the world.
Recently, the domestic media broke out the "National Endowment for Democracy", abbreviated: NED. Every year, heavy sums of money are spent on Internet infiltration of China, and garbage items such as "Pastoral Female Fist" and "Anti-China Public Knowledge" are funded in an attempt to mess up the heads of Chinese. Here, the "cat" would like to remind everyone that we must be clear-headed and maintain the ability to think independently. At the same time, given that some disgusting film directors have begun to pour political sand into the beautiful art form of film, as film lovers, you should recognize and actively expose this disgusting behavior.
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