Watched a movie last week called Mao’s Last Dancer. Mao’s Last Dancer is a Australian movie made in 2009. It was based on a true story.

Li Cunxin, the main character, was sent to the Chinese ballet school when he was young. At first, he was a very bad student, but after he saw the video of a renowned ballerino, he got inspired and did better and better at ballet. His effort on ballet wasn’t overlooked by the teachers, and he was selected to go to America for ballet school. But in America, Li became a star, after performing a ballet show and he changed his mind of going back to China. He married a girl named Liz and continued ballet in America. He later went to China after Mao passed away and met his family and his teacher Chang.

This movie gave many things to talk about. First, Li’s father said the story about a frog in the well and told Li to go to America and see a bigger world. I think he said the right thing. If you just stay in your country or city, you will never see the bigger world. I think it is important to experience more things. The second point is Li’s decision to stay in America. Some say that his decision was selfish. He married Liz without discussions with his teacher. I think he should have talked to his teacher and figured out a better way of staying in America. Lastly, I want to talk about Li being inspired by Teacher Chang. Teacher Chang gave Li a video before he left. The video was about a famous ballerino, and Li got his passion of ballet from it. Afterward, he worked hard and became the best in his school. I think it is important to be inspired from someone or something. If you get passion on something, it makes the energy to keep moving forward. For me, I could say that my video was the book "cosmos". From reading it, I got my dream of being a cosmologist. 

I think it was a good movie overall. It had a interesting plot, characters and gave me many things to talk about. I think it is worth two hours of your time. I recommend you to watch this movie

If I were to rate this movie, I would give four out of five.