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Rhythm Is It! (2004)
Find your life
You can find your life in a dance class!! 250 young adolescents, who have never danced before, and a lot of them come from the lower class in the society, some even exiled from other countries, will dance to the Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du Printemps". The new conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle, leads the project. He believes that the music, the classic music, is not only for people from higher class of the society, but belongs to all people. It is just like water and air, people need music to live.
The life in the movie!! If young people with low self-estimation dance, what would happen? Can you find your lack of self confidence in your way of dancing? The most attracting part of this movie describes the most deepest ego in the human-being, even when you move, you will show your character immediately. Through the dancing in a modern ballet, the adolescents find their power, their values that they have never had in their life, some of them even want to be a professional dancer.
What a wonderful movie!! Only thinking of the changing of children will touch me deeply. I really recommend it. 10/10
Shall we dansu? (1996)
This one is the original
This movie is the original one, not an adaptation of the movie "shall we dance" in 1937 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029546/) directed by Mark Sandrich and played by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers because the story is totally DIFFERENT, though they got the same title. I can't understand why people always argue about Hollywood movies which are adapted from foreign movies and don't want to admit it, though the truth is so obvious. In the website of "shall we dance" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358135/ they also admit that they adapted the movie from this movie by Masayuki Suo.
The movie is very beautiful, if you know the Japanese society, the movie creates a character who is depressed by the stressing society. Then a way to get rid of the whole introverted depression is to dance!! The movie is so fun that you can really laugh till the movie is over.