The dancer in the dark

Rhoda 2021-12-13 08:01:07

Five years ago, someone mentioned this movie and said that it expressed great maternal love. "Don't think before you see things."-What the ancients said is not unreasonable. I believe that this two-hour and ten-minute movie will stand like a god on those who have watched it-at least in my heart, eternity will not be eroded. All of this is of course beyond simple and concise single-line words like "maternal love". Selma-she is so innocent and kind, but born with eye problems. She works hard and takes a box of hairpins every day, just for her son-a little boy with hereditary eye diseases like her, one who works hard in her The little boy who skipped class, a little boy who was always told that she hadn't wrapped the bread and made the bed, and a little boy who mocked her musical lines. Roughly speaking, all of Selma's life since the birth of the child is to repay. All she has done is to save money. When her son is 13 years old-the most suitable time for surgery, return him a pair of and normal Human eyes. She said, it was all my fault. I knew that I would have eye problems when I was born, but I still gave birth to him. Of course, this movie cannot be commented roughly. Every detail of it is so important. The only thing Selma belongs to, completely and truly, is her love of opera. She will listen carefully to the melody of various machines in the factory, and imagine that everyone is dancing on the stage, following the notes she sings. She is very poor and cannot buy a bicycle for her son on his birthday, which all classmates except him have. But her landlord, Bill, bought it, and they always ask the poor mother and son to eat expensive sweets in their spare time. In this way, everything seems to be fine. However, Bill finally walked into Selma's RV under tremendous pressure. He said, "It's nothing, just can't sleep, come out and walk." An ordinary policeman in the United States loves his wife very much. Even if she spends a lot of his inheritance, he never tells her even when the mortgage on the house cannot be paid. He is afraid, and he says he will eventually Will lose his lover, and then hide his face and cry bitterly. In order to relieve Bill's pain, Selma told him that he was going blind and saved money for his son. Bill was always the only one who knew the whole story. When he left, he said, "This is our secret." Selma smiled and said, "Yes, don't tell anyone." It was him, the only person who knew her plan and stole her 2,480 yuan and 5 cents when she didn't have any deposits in the bank. He told his wife that Selma often seduce him in the RV, because he wouldn't let his wife know that he had a lot of troubles and even wanted to commit suicide in order to feed her and he had to talk to Selma. Bill said, pay you back in one month. Selma said, "No, I will pay for the surgery this afternoon." Bill drew his pistol and pointed it at Selma, who was almost blind. The poor man said, "Selma, I am pointing the gun at you. Come and touch it. Keep the money, or you'll kill me!" It was the most helpless and slowest murder I have ever seen, if that was the case. Selma cried and shot the gun, and the bullets ran out. Bill still clenched the purse. She cried and hit the player on Bill's head. "It is what I have to do. "Jeff, a person who loves her, waits for her at the factory gate every day, always saying "Your friend has gone, can I see you off?" "Selma, who wears thick black-rimmed glasses, always smiles sweetly. She said, "No, thank you, goodbye." "Nearly blind, busy with work every day, and in her spare time to arrange musicals, what can she do to love. When she couldn't even see the flowers Jeff prepared for her, the man with a bald forehead just silently took the flowers. Put it in the back of the car. He is still outside the factory waiting for the stubborn Selma who always refuses him but kicks the rails home with his feet. Selma was arrested in the theater, and the one who told her you are The director of Maria, who is always in my heart, wants to rehearse the actor singing the "climbing mountain" part because she likes it best. He also said that I have prepared a little drummer for you, because she always likes it. Finally, the police are here. , Take her away. Only Selma will trust anyone at any time and anywhere. In court, she has almost zero defense. When the other's lawyer said why you wanted to kill Bill, she said: "I promise him not to tell anyone. "Bill's wife cried and said, "Selma, how do you succeed, no one will pity you!" "Our pale goddess walked on the dock with no expression. At this moment she remembered the musical again. Yes, she sang happily. Everyone danced her favorite tap dance. She sang excitedly: "You Can easily catch me! The prison guard is her friend. She said: "You must love your child, and I also have a child. "On the last night when the execution was suspended, the frail Selma said to her: "I like opera, because everything is good in opera. Then she cried and said, "It's too quiet here. "There is no voice to fantasize about a lively musical. Our goddess is so lonely. She is leaning against the wall, praying to heaven, crying and singing in the extremely weak broadcast, and finally sings the news of application for approval. But when she learned that her two thousand four hundred and eighty five cents had been used to hire a lawyer who reversed her case, the strength of her invincible mother came back. She almost screamed at Carver on the phone Roaring: "You are crazy to spend so much money on a woman who has spent most of her life in prison! Garver also yelled anxiously: "What Xiao Luo needs is his mother!" ""Do not! What he needs is a pair of eyes! ! "Please choose wisely!" ! "This is my inner voice!" ! " Jeff's visit was as gentle as usual. He said, "Luo asked me to thank you." "Thanks what?" "Thank you for sending him a set of comics on his birthday." "You shouldn't say that the comics are me. Sent." "Should he come to see you?" "No, bad mood will worsen the condition." "Why did you give birth to him?" "Because I like the feeling of holding a baby in my arms." "I love You." Jeff hung up after saying this. The two cried bitterly through a thick layer of glass covering their faces. This is their last conversation. On the day of Selma's execution, like a messenger who completed the mission, she seemed to have no extra courage to face the life that was about to disappear. She curled up in the cell dedicated to the death row for the last night and did not eat the last meal. , Cried intermittently all night. I remember Carver told her that she could apply for a moratorium on her sentence, "I can't stand it anymore. I always thought I was strong." Selma was caught off guard by death. She loves life so much, no matter how much she criticizes her life. The prison guards beat her, and she can finally walk to the 104-step execution ground on her own and sing her final second act musical. She couldn't stand firmly. When the hanging string was on her neck, she refused to scream with the black step mask, but when Carver put Luo's glasses into her hand, she immediately calmed down and sang again. Let's sing. This is the only real opera scene that is not beautified with fantasy effects. Suddenly the board under his feet loosened, the singing stopped abruptly, and Xiao Luo's glasses fell to the ground. I love her so much. She followed her inner voice so bravely, she was afraid of death, but in the end the huge love from her body defeated the tears of fear, the limp body, and the lonely tranquility. She is as pure as the snow in the mountains that has never been invaded. However, all of this does not describe the pure and realistic resistance. It reminds me of my bad life. Once upon a time, we also had such persistence and innocence, but it was stabbed so deeply that there was nothing to say. As Selma said, silence is golden. She finally disappeared on the hanger, singing her opera, taking away the fiery holiness. But we can only let the holiness go away like the wind, and can't believe that there will be wounded but tough purity that can be extravagant, guard against everything, pain and numbness. The purest feelings have to be hurt the most cruel. When Selma was silent in the prison, I curled up on the sofa and couldn't help sobbing. I really miss the sincere emotion that I used to be, and I can't be sure whether it will come back. For some people, some feelings will never get rid of. Maybe when I use "get rid of" it is still a perceptual summary attributed to impulse. But I know that the pain at this time is greater than the complete disintegration and destruction many years ago. This is not a naive fantasy that is greater than a real relationship, nor is it a boy who is so perfect that he cannot fit into life. Selma allowed me to understand more precisely that there is great love in the world not because of the pursuit that people agree with. Sometimes, love has nothing to do with others, it just originates from the most unpretentious and natural desire of the person himself, a kind of happiness to forget oneself, a kind of fearless payment of any price. This is a deadly truth, and those who have not arrived will never know it. When I wrote these in the early morning, the emotion of tears did not dilute my cognition. I`m another Dancer in the dark.

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Dancer in the Dark quotes

  • Selma: Clatter, crash, clack, racket, bang, thump, rattle, clang, crack, thud, whack, bam! It's music, now dance!

  • Jeff: I don't understand. In musicals, why do they start to sing and dance all of a sudden? I mean, I don't suddenly start... to sing and dance.