Thursday, January 3, 2008

Save the Last Dance

movie review | save the last dance
"The Only Person You Need To Be Is Yourself."


Save the Last Dance is one of the best drama romance I've ever seen. The movie starred by Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas was influeced by great dance steps with the good combination of modern hip hop and ballet dance. Viewers loved this movie as this show the true meaning of love despite of all the odds and discrimination surrounding them.

Julia playing the role of Sara Johnson, a promising high school dancer who has a great passion in a ballet. In order to fulfill her dreams, Sara auditioned in a ballet dance in order to be study at Juilliard. On the day of the audition, Sara failed and the worst thing is she discovered that her mom died in car accident while in a rush to see her in the audition as a promise. Sarah blame her self for what happened and decided to stop and give up her dreams to become a ballerina.

She moves in with her father in Chicago as she trying to moved on. With her new place there it comes her new school where she is the only white girl in the whole school. She quickly found comapnion with Chenille(Kerry Washington). Black girls love parties and Chenille invited Sarah to a dance clun(STEPS) where she met Chenille's brother, Derek Reynolds(Sean Patrick Thomas). Sarah at first having a hard time dancing with hip hop as that is her first time to dance hip hop rhythms. Derek as a solution helped Sarah so whenever they come back to the club the people their would be amazed with their dance steps. As a good dancer, the two took practice abandoned warehouses and do some good combination of ballet and hip hop. Through this, the two become close and fell with each other which is a big no no among their schoolmates. Black man is only for black man, the racism is their school whick make their relationship hassle. Sarah opened everything to Derek, from the death of her mother to her dreams to enter to Julliard. Derek achieved hs dreams to be Georgetown Medical School and wanted Sara to the same way, to do what she really wnats and continue her dreams to become a ballerina. Its not tht easy to convince Sara as Ballet only reminds her the death of her mother.

When everything seems to be perfect the two broke up because of the people surrounds them. Sarah continue her audition to Julliard despite of the absence of Derek. Sara almost quit when Derek arrives into the audition which makes the audition successful. They later celebrate on STEPS as a celebration for the successful auditioned.


movie review | save the last dance

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