Movie Review

Movie Review - 

<Mao's Last Dancer>

Last Sunday, I watched the movie named <Mao's last dancer>. This movie is based on true story of dancer 'Li Cunxin', and its genre is drama or romance. 'Li Cunxin', 'Ben Stevenson' are the main characters of the movie. There are other important characters, such as 'Elizabeth', 'Teacher Chan', etc.

For the story of this movie, Li was chosen by leader of Houston Ballet Group in the age of 11, went to Beijing and learn the Ballet. At the very first, he was a normal, poor boy born in poor Chinese household, who didn't know anything about Ballet, so he had many difficulties with doing it. However, after moving to Beijing, he kept practicing it all day and all night. He was not very good with Ballet during learning in school, and even his teacher called him 'Pig head'. Because of it he practiced just like what I said before. As a result of these practices, he became the best Ballet dancer. Of course, he got help to have confidence and strong passion of dancing from someone, Teacher Chan. He made Li to don't think that he is not good at Ballet and try harder. Li thought that he could do, follows Teacher Chan's advice. But later, Teacher Chan got arrested, because he had different opinion with government, which thought dance have to be one part of the arts that have story about revolution, etc. After the arrest of Teacher Chan, Li decided to try, practice, dance very hard and reward of his lessons. As a result, he made the best performance, and became the most famous Ballet dancer all around the world, with conquering his weak point, flat feet. It has happy ending.

This movie, <Mao's last dancer> took place in America and China. Every stories are all real, just like I said before and these events happened in 1980's. It was humorous, sometimes sad, and also impressing.

I was very impressed of Li's passion and love with his family. Also, it was amusing is funny scenes, too. There were many amazing performances of Ballet, and showed strong passion of Li Cunxin for making excellent stages. Furthermore, I was keep thinking during watching movie, that Ballet seems too difficult, would be hurt so much, and admiring every Ballet dancers. However, there were several harmful scenes or conversation for teenagers. If I could change a little bit of the story, I would like Li to live with Elizabeth happily, not divorce and marrying Mary, because it makes Li to look like a bad man.

For a conclusion, I liked this movie, because I am interested in Ballet, and this reason made me concentrate well. Moreover, performances were fantastic and made me to get passion about my dream. I wish many people to watch this movie and could try to achieve their goals.

↓ Mao's Last Dancer - Official trailer ↓