Generally speaking, the rhythm is too slow, dragging... so that the next three episodes started rushing...
Regrettably, although the screenwriter is writing dance, he did not incorporate the rhythm of dance into the screenwriting style, or the director's technique and sense of control. Somewhat weak. I actually watch very few American dramas, but I feel that the details of the content have been maintained over a long period of time. A TV series of about ten episodes is ready. You can set up a very high and dark situation at the beginning, and then peel it into the core in a short time. The audience knows that the end is not far away, so the sense of suspense and devotion are better than dozens of episodes. Things are much stronger for several seasons. Compactness, rhythm, no need to repeat, this is why movies are always more dramatic than TV shows. Therefore, the film has more artistic and philosophical opportunities than TV dramas. After all, it is acceptable to have two hours of daydreaming. It is too long and I am embarrassed. But compared to a movie that was cut to pieces after being stuck for two hours, the plot can still be explained quite clearly.
At the beginning, throw all kinds of clues directly on the audience's face, whether they understand it or not. Anyway, the audience is passive after all, don't take them seriously, can you be a little emboldened by Paul. All the contents of the first three or four episodes are added together, compressed to one and a half episodes, then all the main lines and sub-lines can be expanded more calmly and richly, and they can be collected more fully and powerfully at the end.
These are some of the feelings of the screenwriter and director of watching and thinking. I hate everything that I am full of criticism after watching, without any compliment, but before complimenting, let me express the accumulated dissatisfaction. Why I also spent several nights in the drama so procrastinated and trance late several times during the day, hey.
The first thing that makes people’s eyes shine is the title, which gives people a lot of room for imagination, thinking that the drama is also the same sexy, mysterious and silky texture. Although I saw the fifth and sixth episodes, I was finally sure that I thought more about it... But that The red soil solo dance is much better than any rubie or modern ballet in the show, Pina? The Rite of Spring? But after seeing it, I really have been skeptical about my dance appreciation ability. Later, I actually fast-forwarded most of the dance.
A film about ballet can hardly be unsightly. After all, everything related to ballet, such as dancing, body, line, beauty, music, stage lighting, flowers, celebration balls, etc., are all glamorous and can satisfy the visual and psychological demands of all audiences. Looking at it, I was thinking, the selection was confirmed, and probably everyone would say to the screenwriter, that would be a gorgeous piece. Then I began to despise why I was so superficial... Besides, there was also Kiira, the former chief of the American ballet company ABT, who appeared in person. This drama is the beauty that has the right to be generous, but obviously it wants to go in the direction of poignant beauty and dark beauty, obviously walking a bit staggering, making me feel sweaty all the time. The decline of ballet also makes sense. Its strict and cruel physical requirements and arduous training have to be said to be admirable, but ballet, after all, is a classical art. I have never seen ballet fascinated, but I have seen it wake up a few times when I watch modern dance. What's in my heart. The pursuit of the ultimate and even perverted beauty can easily lead people to embark on the path of imprisoning beauty. This attitude of fuck pretty makes people closer to art rather than craftsmanship. The teachers of acting, director, and screenwriter always make people feel, feel, and feel, but that is often not required. Without the feelings in life, what can you feel while listening to the teacher's request in class? These things can't be learned, and after leaving enough tears, there are enough scars in my heart, these things will be caught by hand. There are no shortcuts to art. The teacher can let you know how far you are from your requirements, but can't lead you step by step through those obstacles. This film really tells the difficulty and cruelty of some art. You have to exchange with the devil to get artistic achievements. Pretty, in this sense, is the source of evasion and concealment, the rigidity of classical art, that is, it begins to float on the surface in the pursuit of beauty, completely separating beauty from ugliness, pain, and evil, and the beauty of overhead is lifeless.
When the screenwriter is conceiving, it is very sincere to regard the above as the core idea. Moreover, the portrayal of the soul figures of the two dance troupes, Paul and Kiira, is even more vivid than that of the heroine. After all, there are countless archetypes in reality. The perfect nobility of ballet and the triviality of life are concentrated on one person, which is destined to arouse pain. Crankiness, impermanence, extreme ambition, fragile support, incomplete personality... When a person puts the pursuit of dance before self-improvement, her dance will gradually weaken. The self-confidence and light of these two people in front of others is the glory of ballet, and the decadence and loneliness of life behind the scenes is also the gloom of ballet. Talents tend to be fixed, technology is still accurate, and faces are still charming, but the driving force of mental state, expressions and body comes from inner strength. I don't know why people in the show business circle like to use drugs. I always feel that truly powerful people don't need these, and they won't allow their works to be completed by relying on them. Isn't this a deception? It is paul or kiira if it is successful, it is mia if it is unsuccessful, there is no real work, but it has to endure a boring inner world and deteriorating physical condition.
Daphne is a relatively balanced one, ballet studio and stripclub, black and white day and night, beauty and sin, so she seems to know how to face cruelty and pressure, she can deal with reality better than kiira, but she does not have claire's insistence on kindness. , She often chooses to compromise and ignore. Claire, the hostess, in fact, her darkness, what imprisoned her, seemed to me unable to support the need of the plot. The psychological trauma, the shadows that she can't walk out, and the things that restrict her free expression to face her heart are vague, and the explanations are not strong enough. In the first seven episodes, she kept her face straight, with no expression of joy, which made people very unpleasant...I don't know how she can dance so well in this state of mind. The line of her brother and father, I think it is more of a failure, it would be better to change the plot.
And how the world of stripclub and sergei intersects with the world of ballet, and what is the result? I haven't explained it, it will be gone. What happened to the heroine and the fund man, and there was no response. In screenwriting, these are relatively low-level loopholes, and I don't know why this is so.
Photography lacks tension and editing has few bright spots that I remember. Maybe the director doesn't like the technique of interfering with the audience too much, maybe the director hasn't found his rhythm yet. Or, my guess is that everyone is stunned by the beauty of ballet, and forget about the carving skills.
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