Every movie has a message to tell, although not everyone realizes this very concept of portraying stories in the big screen. Most of the times, we see them as an entertainment, a product of creative minds, a collaboration of the best artists in the movie industry, and an escape from the hassles of the real world. Rarely do we leave the cinemas talking about the deeper meaning of what we’ve just watched.
However, for Joan Acocella, some movies really have serious messages to tell. According to her, in her Happy Feet: The Pleasure of Teen Dance Movies, all films that fall in teen dance category are embedded with grave messages. These movies problematize about social hierarchy, tackle racial division, are notably feminist, and have bravery as the main theme. To elaborate more on this, she gave examples where she noticed the representation of the messages. Included are Footloose, Saturday Night Fever, Flashdance, and Step Up among others.
For me, her analysis of the teen dance movies that she came to watch is not entirely opinionated, no matter how personal that article had been. Looking through a more open – minded perspective, what she said are somewhat a form of opening our minds to the serious issues that we oftentimes overlook. In the next few years, with more and more films being shown in a thousand theaters around the world, more people may now be able to grasp the hidden concept behind these films that the story so wanted to tell in the first place.
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