Ballerina
"Feel your anger and your pain and your sorrow and your joy, and put it all into your dance. Live the music, feel it."
As a dancer, rewatching this made me appreciate it so much more than I did the first time. Sure, it’s not the most technically accurate dance movie ever made, but you can tell the genuine love for the ballet and dance in general. The little details, the rehearsals, the corrections, the nerves before performing, the constant feeling that you’re never quite good enough hit a lot harder now.
The movement captures the joy of dancing more than the perfection of it. That’s what makes it such a loveable film.
Félicie is such an easy character to root for because she isn’t the best from the start. She falls, gets frustrated, doubts herself, and keeps showing up anyway. As someone who’s spent countless hours in a studio, that determination felt more relatable on this watch than it ever did before.
Is it realistic? Not really. Is it predictable? Definitely. But sometimes you don’t need a perfectly accurate dance movie. You just need one that reminds you why you fell in love with dancing in the first place.
This rewatch felt like an owe to my younger self who dreamed of becoming who i am today.
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