Today’s Film Review ｜ The movie ＂Enthusiasm＂： Street Dance Storm, Exploding this Summer!

Special feature of 1905 film network In 2020, the International Olympic Committee agreed to add a break dance event to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. In the same year, the Olympic Council of Asia made it clear that the Hangzhou Asian Games would also add a break dance schedule. Street dance has officially entered the world sports stage.

Film and television works with competitive sports as the main line are not uncommon. Yuri on the Ice … Sports events naturally have a charm that makes people "burn". The combination of sports and dance will create new possibilities.　

Ran hip hop dance

In recent years, "this! Hip-hop theme variety shows such as "Hip-hop" and "Hot Blood Hip-hop Troupe" have continued to become the internet explosion point, and the public’s attention and love for the new generation of dance has continued to soar, and a wave of popular science has also been sent by the way. Up to now, many viewers have been able to distinguish different kinds of dances, such as Breaking, Hip-Hop, Locking and Popping, and learning hip-hop has become a new trend for teenagers.

Most of the heavy scenes of "Enthusiasm" are gathered in the street dance bridge. This group of people who love hip-hop, whether competing on the same stage or training in Qi Xin, are all visual "burning" points. The creative team adopted a large number of passionate colors and selected symbols related to sunshine, sweat and youth, and the visual impact was overwhelming.

It is very difficult to shoot street dance. Sometimes the lens needs to give close-ups of dancers’ faces, sometimes it needs to show partial movements, and sometimes it needs to cut to the panoramic view of the group dance, and quickly cooperate with the audience, explanations and off-site reactions to form a high-burning street dance competitive atmosphere, which makes people’s adrenaline soar.

At the same time, as a dance and competitive sports, street dance has its particularity. Traditional competitive sports have strict rules, high and low judgments, and their ability and skills are greater than everything else. However, as an art, street dance needs to express emotions with body language, and emotions are an important criterion for judging scores. Under the strong emotional demand, Chinese’s competitive events, which emphasize emotion and justice and win by skill alone, seem to be stretched.

Hip-hop dance itself and the emotions it conveys have the warmest passion in generate. It is not only sports that are "burning" on the screen, but also the story behind the dancers.

Ran athletic

The biggest ignition point of sports is "competition", and street dance competition is to dance in chains, and to maximize the dancer’s personality under the premise of observing the competitive rules. Every dancer’s demeanor and movements on the stage will make people feel that their bodies are hot, as if the audience is also in that passionate competitive scene, sharing the same somatosensory "burning".

Different from the street dance "burning" in the whole process, the competitive "burning" is more of a point-like highlight segment. When Chen Shuo participated in the competition for the first time on behalf of the exclamation point dance company, he was so nervous that he sat in the stairwell and was at a loss. The coach Ding Lei gave him faith. He said, we dancers have to touch the floor, and you have to touch the floor to connect the grounding gas. With this simple belief that "you believe in it, it will believe in you", there will be a highlight moment.

A person’s dance is lonely, but the strength of the group can ignite the audience. In the team competition, Chen Shuo creatively integrated the iconic movements of almost every teammate. For an unfamiliar dance field, his professional level may be poor, but he is not dancing alone, but dancing with a team.

In the competitive bridge between the two sides of the national competition, the exclamation mark was always at a disadvantage in the first few rounds. By the sixth round, the two sides had a draw. At the moment when they finally competed for the match point, Chen Shuo released a big move: he drew the name of the dance troupe in the air with his body — — Exclamation mark, this is the name of the dance company. The exclamation point in the air exploded the soul of the group, and the sense of collective honor in competitive sports is the "big move" of sports inspirational movies.

Burning dream

No matter how innovative the theme of street dance is, at its root, Enthusiasm is still an inspirational story of grassroots counterattack. This kind of script is not uncommon in the market, and even the audience can guess the plot direction in the first ten minutes, but this does not mean that their dreams are not worth seeing.

Different from Chen Shuo’s hard work, Ding Lei may be closer to us in reality. He once put down street dance for the benefit, and became smooth under the polishing of life, with the helplessness and cunning peculiar to businessmen, but he still "burned" for his dreams. It is not difficult to pursue dreams. What is difficult is how to keep your original heart in the face of many obstacles in life.

The group portrait of "Enthusiasm" is also remarkable. Everyone has dreams, including teammates with exclamation marks, Chen Shuo’s mother, uncle and girlfriend. As supporting actors, their dream pursuit may not be as arduous but successful as Chen Shuo’s, but it is easier for the audience to see their own shadow in them. Zhang Cuibiao, who finally chose to leave the dance company, clearly knew his lack of talent. "Cui Biao loves hip-hop, but hip-hop doesn’t love him so much." It’s no shame to stop dreaming, and it’s equally valuable to recognize yourself.

It’s like a self-projection at some stage. Dapeng’s early works often get comments such as "bad movies", "incomprehensible" and "melodramatic". It seems that the god of movies does not care for this young director. However, he and Zhang Cuibiao made different choices and always insisted on their posts. After that, Dapeng’s films became more and more powerful. In the cinema, the audience will think of a situation they have experienced or are experiencing, and think of "fortunately, I insisted" or "I didn’t insist, but there is nothing wrong with it".

At the ignition point of dreams, a fire was ignited, which awakened the "enthusiasm" in our hearts. In the process of watching the hero slowly approach his dream, the fire inside us grew stronger and stronger, and finally it became a big fire. At this time, the film came to an abrupt end. There were no eggs, no tidbits, only the music flowing quietly.

"My last stubbornness and I will never let go of the next stop. Is it heaven? Even if we are disappointed, we can’t despair?" The ending song is "Stubbornness", which has influenced a generation and has been given a new meaning at this time.

I hope that every audience can live their lives into exclamation marks.