Strictly Ballroom

Strictly Ballroom is a movie about a dancer, called Scott, who risked his dancing career by dancing a different dance step in a competition despite the objection of his mum, teacher and dance mates. In this movie, the beginner dancer, Fran, although she is just a beginner but she is dare to challenge. The word that she spoke made me reflects a lot, which is "to live in fear is like a life half lived". In this movie, because of fear, influenced a lot of people do not dare to make changes because of their fear. For example, Scott's mother and his teacher have always wanted Scott to dance the traditional way of dance sport, because they want Scott to win the Grand Prix and they have the fear of losing too. However, Fran's family taught Scott the new dance movement and their support to both Fran and Scott gave them a lot of confidence and love. Lastly, because of Scott and Fran's new dance movement, their guts to make changes and challenge themselves, they finally make it and influenced a lot of people, including Scott's mother and teacher to change their perspective too. From this movie, I actually get to reflect on myself. I usually get influenced by people very easily especially negative comments, just like Fran in the scene where she dance with Scott in the backstage, where she felt down after listening to those negative words. For me, I scared of listening negative feedbacks, that is why I usually stay quiet and humble for what I had done. But through this movie, I learned that making changes are very important and therefore I think it is time for me to change myself too so that my life will be more bright and happy.