Saturday, February 20, 2010

Swing kids

The movie, "Swing kids" is about German teenagers who expressed their feeling through swing dance. The background of this movie is in Germany, some around late 1930s to 1940s.They were under control by Nazi. That period, Nazi banned swing music and dance. I think because swing implies freedom or disobedience against Nazi. Also swing music is originated from black's music so it wasn't fit to Nazi's propaganda, Germanic people is the best. The main character, Thomas, and his friends were swing kids, they loved swing dance, even though it banned. However, Thomas and friends joined HJ, and Thomas were getting brainwashed like Nazi. In the end, he retained his pure mind about swing music.
This movie was very interesting to me, just not because of young Christian Bale. When you see this movie, you can listen many swing music, and also see dynamic swing movements too. It was very nice to see and listen. However, the most impressive scene was the last part when Thomas and friends shouted "Swing hail", because it was little bit awkward..but overall, it was good movie.

No comments:

Post a Comment