Mao's Last Dancer Movie Review: An AMWF Romance Date Movie
Mao’s Last Dancer Movie Review (An AMWF Romance Date Movie)
Asian Man White Female
Allow me to begin this movie review of “Mao’s Last Dancer” by stating that neither ballet nor opera are my cup of tea. I've a mature brother that loves classical music and the opera, but the artistic and musical gene completely passed me by.
However, with that said, even if you’re as tone deaf or artistically ignorant like me, doesn’t mean that you won’t benefit from the movie “Mao’s Last Dancer.” The ballet dancing and cinematography are top notch enough that a neophyte like myself can appreciate it’s technical execution.
But that’s minimal from the matter.
This is actually the heartwarming true-life story of Li Cunxin, a boy plucked from abject poverty in the peasant rice fields of Communist China to become a national ballet sensation, based from the best selling autobiography “Mao’s Last Dancer.”
Told in intermittent flashbacks, you become grounded and invested in these actual life characters. These flashbacks do a excellent job at painting the poignancy of his family and the strength of the familial bond. For example, the mother’s fascination with her son is exemplified when she spends the whole night to sew his blanket, pressing on despite the light bulb has burned out, before sending him off and away to the large city.
On a personal level, I could really relate to how much my very own family and especially mother sacrificed for me to ensure that me to achieve success.
“A mother is really a person who seeing there are only four bits of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did take care of pie.” - Tenneva Jordan
There’s obviously an element of “White Man Saving the Day” Syndrome, but it's based on a true story. For instance, it had been pointed out that most of Li’s fellow students came off as robotic and emotionless, even though they had perfect technique and muscle tone aside from Li. And also the Communists must be unhealthy guys within this story which grossly simplifies the political context of that day and age, but again, this is based on Li Cunxin’s real life story.
Now Chi Cao as Li Cunxin is great because the innocent, naive, and earnest foreigner. He doesn’t speak a lot (he mostly plays earnest and endearing immigrant), but he definitely carried the film well.
Actress Amanda Schull plays cute as a button Elizabeth and Li Cunxin’s first girlfriend who's absolutely adorable and reminds me of my own college sweetheart. The first date scene training a girl about Asian food and chopsticks is definitely something I can relate to. It’s rare to see an optimistic AMWF love story making mtss is a good “first date” type movie to watch with a girl.
Bruce Greenwood‘s (as Ben Stephenson the ballet director) attempt for explaining the racial epithet of “chink” was endearing. Although, this isn’t really a movie that explores racial distinction, prejudice or interracial dating. Its much more of a casual acknowledgement that such things exist while letting the primary meat of the story follow Li Cunxin’s personal and professional career. For example, there’s just a little reverse racebending as Li Cunxin plays Don Quixote and when questioned if your Chinese man could play a Spaniard, it was pointed out Marlon Brando played a Chinese part of a movie, and then life continues.
The reasons of using a marriage to push away being forcibly returned to China, the pressures of differing career path and also the subsequent disintegration of the marriage are explored. Although that first marriage ends in a divorce, our Asian leading man sweeps Australian ballerina Mary McKendry (played by Camilla Vergotis) figuratively and literally off her feet (whom he is still married to with three children).
I believe like a date movie if you wanted to introduce the element of interracial dating, “Mao’s Last Dancer” is a good, emotional choice that highlights the Asian male protagonist inside a confident, artistic, and masculine light. There aren’t a lot of movies that highlight AMWF (or AMXF romances for instance) a smaller amount positively, but “Mao’s Last Dancer” is surely a good movie in its own right.
It may be somewhat slow if you’re not into ballet and there are certainly parts you might get tired of, but the dance cinematography, the acting and also the historical anachronism of the 1980s Communist politics, a lot more than replace with it. But you never know, you may learn a little something about ballet or living under China’s Cultural Revolution.
One of the most amazing thing is how this is all based on the best-selling and accurate autobiography of the identical name. If I hadn’t known that, I would have assumed that the “too good to be true” storyline was a clear ploy at emotional manipulation.
Asian Man White Female
In a nutshell, “Mao’s Last Dancer” is a feel good movie that pushes all the right buttons and all sorts of the greater inspiring since it is true.
Asian Man White Female
Allow me to begin this movie review of “Mao’s Last Dancer” by stating that neither ballet nor opera are my cup of tea. I've a mature brother that loves classical music and the opera, but the artistic and musical gene completely passed me by.
However, with that said, even if you’re as tone deaf or artistically ignorant like me, doesn’t mean that you won’t benefit from the movie “Mao’s Last Dancer.” The ballet dancing and cinematography are top notch enough that a neophyte like myself can appreciate it’s technical execution.
But that’s minimal from the matter.
This is actually the heartwarming true-life story of Li Cunxin, a boy plucked from abject poverty in the peasant rice fields of Communist China to become a national ballet sensation, based from the best selling autobiography “Mao’s Last Dancer.”
Told in intermittent flashbacks, you become grounded and invested in these actual life characters. These flashbacks do a excellent job at painting the poignancy of his family and the strength of the familial bond. For example, the mother’s fascination with her son is exemplified when she spends the whole night to sew his blanket, pressing on despite the light bulb has burned out, before sending him off and away to the large city.
On a personal level, I could really relate to how much my very own family and especially mother sacrificed for me to ensure that me to achieve success.
“A mother is really a person who seeing there are only four bits of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did take care of pie.” - Tenneva Jordan
There’s obviously an element of “White Man Saving the Day” Syndrome, but it's based on a true story. For instance, it had been pointed out that most of Li’s fellow students came off as robotic and emotionless, even though they had perfect technique and muscle tone aside from Li. And also the Communists must be unhealthy guys within this story which grossly simplifies the political context of that day and age, but again, this is based on Li Cunxin’s real life story.
Now Chi Cao as Li Cunxin is great because the innocent, naive, and earnest foreigner. He doesn’t speak a lot (he mostly plays earnest and endearing immigrant), but he definitely carried the film well.
Actress Amanda Schull plays cute as a button Elizabeth and Li Cunxin’s first girlfriend who's absolutely adorable and reminds me of my own college sweetheart. The first date scene training a girl about Asian food and chopsticks is definitely something I can relate to. It’s rare to see an optimistic AMWF love story making mtss is a good “first date” type movie to watch with a girl.
Bruce Greenwood‘s (as Ben Stephenson the ballet director) attempt for explaining the racial epithet of “chink” was endearing. Although, this isn’t really a movie that explores racial distinction, prejudice or interracial dating. Its much more of a casual acknowledgement that such things exist while letting the primary meat of the story follow Li Cunxin’s personal and professional career. For example, there’s just a little reverse racebending as Li Cunxin plays Don Quixote and when questioned if your Chinese man could play a Spaniard, it was pointed out Marlon Brando played a Chinese part of a movie, and then life continues.
The reasons of using a marriage to push away being forcibly returned to China, the pressures of differing career path and also the subsequent disintegration of the marriage are explored. Although that first marriage ends in a divorce, our Asian leading man sweeps Australian ballerina Mary McKendry (played by Camilla Vergotis) figuratively and literally off her feet (whom he is still married to with three children).
I believe like a date movie if you wanted to introduce the element of interracial dating, “Mao’s Last Dancer” is a good, emotional choice that highlights the Asian male protagonist inside a confident, artistic, and masculine light. There aren’t a lot of movies that highlight AMWF (or AMXF romances for instance) a smaller amount positively, but “Mao’s Last Dancer” is surely a good movie in its own right.
It may be somewhat slow if you’re not into ballet and there are certainly parts you might get tired of, but the dance cinematography, the acting and also the historical anachronism of the 1980s Communist politics, a lot more than replace with it. But you never know, you may learn a little something about ballet or living under China’s Cultural Revolution.
One of the most amazing thing is how this is all based on the best-selling and accurate autobiography of the identical name. If I hadn’t known that, I would have assumed that the “too good to be true” storyline was a clear ploy at emotional manipulation.
Asian Man White Female
In a nutshell, “Mao’s Last Dancer” is a feel good movie that pushes all the right buttons and all sorts of the greater inspiring since it is true.