So be it

Hayden 2022-03-23 09:02:45

After work, I went to watch the movie THIS IS IT. At the beginning of the movie, my friends and I were busy drinking yogurt and eating popcorn, thinking about whether to take apart Skittles and eat them. Dancers who came from all over the world to apply for the job were excited or restrained and told the camera about their feelings. There was a young boy who forgot where he was from crying. I said don’t eat it and look at it, he cried. While holding back his tears, he said slowly, you know, life is so difficult, you always have to find something meaningful to ignite life. Then Jackson came out wearing red pants. At that moment, it was as if someone slapped me with a stick. My memory went back to ten years ago. One afternoon, I went to play at the house of a male classmate I didn't know very well. Show me the tape of Jackson's concert. He asked me if I looked good, then jumped up while watching.

The young people on the screen danced the Jackson dance hard, and they were all beautiful and hard. They said to the camera that they grew up listening to Jackson's songs. Even the chorus Asian-faced girl, and the guitarist. It was their dream to work with Jackson. I have never had any too persistent dreams, my ideal is just to live by. More than ten years ago I liked a guy very much, yes ten years ago. I have always stubbornly believed that it was my first love. I never thought that I was only a few years old when I liked someone, and it was not enough for the standard of early love. But talking about childhood sweethearts is also very inappropriate, because I was always very shy when I was a child, and the more I liked him, the more I wanted to pretend to hate him, so I couldn't say a few words in a semester, and I would blush all day when my hair was pulled. The boy also liked Jackson very much, and always saw him practicing skate walking in the hallway between classes. When Jackson began to sing, I suddenly had an irresistible thought in my mind, that would be great if I could meet this person I liked when I was young, or after the movie ended. Such an idea is too ethereal, but I didn't dare to look back. Even if he was really there.

I don't know if it was during rehearsals that Jackson's body was already having problems. However, his brilliance and charisma on stage will never be matched. As soon as the music started, he was in a very good state. In the film, he is serious, polite, demanding on details, and keeps expressing gratitude to his colleagues. God bless you. He was very sincere.

It can be seen that the stage beauty of this concert is very shocking, but no one will see it again. During the rehearsal, the bright lights hit the audience area, and when you look closely, it is empty. The protagonist on the stage was focused, as if singing to the whole world. I looked at him and remembered the live footage I'd seen before, the audience was frantic, boiling, screaming, and every now and then someone passed out. At the rehearsal scene, there was only applause from colleagues. In the third half of the film, he finished singing a song and set up his poses. At this time, the director's voice echoed in the theater, "Stop here and wait for the applause", and then the lights slowly dimmed, and at the moment when the lights disappeared , Jackson showed a "I know" smile, humble and proud. I can imagine the madness that could be going on offstage, but it's never going to happen again. There were less than 20 people sitting in the theater at night, and these people applauded by themselves.

So sad. Watching a movie, I got wet several times. When the BEAT IT prelude sounded, I took a deep breath, put my face in my hands, and spent the five minutes in a particularly silly look. This song was so important in my adolescence, really so important. And then all the way to the end, I was a little shivering. Of course it could also be because of the cold. Earth song is sung a thousand times a thousand times, I feel like I was a little out of my body at that moment, that kind of state where I suddenly come back to my senses and try to think about what I was thinking just now, but I can't remember anything.

From the day I learned of his death, I calmly accepted the fact and comforted a friend who couldn't accept it anyway. But looking at the big screen tonight, watching it, I suddenly felt unreal, I didn't think Jackson was dead, he couldn't have died.

The final stop is beautiful, I mean the shot before the credits start. So be it.

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Extended Reading
  • Meagan 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    A great man is great because you kneel down and look at him. I am willing to kneel.

  • Lambert 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    Five stars for MJ... ugh, we just missed one of the greatest concerts in the world. We love you too, really love you.

This Is It quotes

  • Michael Jackson: [singing] Billie Jean is not my lover.

  • Michael Jackson: It can't trigger on its own. I gotta cue that. You got to watch me for that - that growl. Okay?

    [singing]

    Michael Jackson: I never felt so in love before, Promise baby, you'll love me forevermore, I swear I'm keepin' you satisfied, 'Cause you're the one for me, The way you make me feel

    Background Singers: The way you make me feel

    Michael Jackson: You really turn me on

    Background Singers: You really turn me on

    Michael Jackson: You knock me off of my feet, now baby!

    Background Singers: You knock me off of my feet, My lonely days are gone...