Mao's Last Dancer: Movie Reveiw

Today I am going to be reviewing a movie called Mao's Last Dancer that came out in 2009. This movie is about a true story and is a romance and drama movie. 1 will be a bad movie and 5 will be a very good movie for my rating system. I would rate this movie 4 out of 5 because it was an interesting movie, but not really that fun.

This is about a main character named Li Cuxin who went to Houston, Texas as a student to learn ballet. Li's family lives in the Shingdong Province, China. Li's family is very poor, but Li passed a test at the Beijing Arts Academy in China and Li begins to learn ballet at the school. China was a communist country at the time of the movie so they performed things that represent communist China. An American ballet performance director Ben visits China. He saw Li and takes him to Houston for one month as a student with his company. While dancing, Li falls in love with a dancer in the company called Liz(Elizabeth). When Li's visa has finished the Chinese embassy tries to take Li back to China, but he said that he was married. The Chinese embassy says that if you want to live in the U.S.A. he can never see his family again or return to China. Li chooses to stay in the U.S.A. and eventually Li and Liz divorce and Liz moves to California. At the end, Li performs with his partner Mary and his parents came to the ballet show as VIPs to surprise Li. Three years later, Li marries Mary and visits China and his family.

In the movie, Li's father tells Li a story about a frog in a well. This can mean different things to everyone, but to me it means not to be afraid of trying something new and always look around. In the story there was a frog in the well that didn't come out, but finally it came out and saw the outside world. Even though the frog might have been afraid, the frog tried something new by coming out of the well. Also the frog didn't just see the inside world of the well, but found out there was an outside world of the well. This story means not to be afraid to try something new and always look around. 

Li made a decision in the movie to marry Liz and never go back to China and see his family. I think Li made a bad decision because he later was worried about what might happen to his family and didn't really have a lot of time to love Liz. Even though he said he loved Liz he became sharp and worried about his family and didn't understand Liz very well. It just seemed like Li married Liz just to stay in the U.S.A. Li and Liz divorce and Liz moves to California for ballet.

Li had a teacher named Teacher Chan who inspired him to practice ballet better. In my life, my dad inspires me. Since I was in elementary school, my dad inspired me to become a professor when I grow up. I liked how he works hard to teach his students and does have presentations, but also spending a lot of time with his family. To make my dream come true, I have to study hard and live a future I want to live.

To conclude, I think this movie would be a  more interesting movie if it was a little bit more funny than serious the whole time. This is a good movie for people who like romantic and drama movies the most, but also a good movie for every one to watch.

       *This is the trailer of the movie. Have a good time watching~~