She said: "My dream is to be a dancer, to stand on the biggest stage, very, very big, with the audience much, much bigger, with their eyes fixed on me alone."
She was standing at the highest place she could - the roof of her family's rented house.
Even though it was already the roof, she still looked low and small in contrast to the tall buildings around her.
Ballet is one of the most elegant dances in the world. It is not only technically difficult, but also has high requirements for the dancer's form and temperament.
Many parents of middle-class families want to train their children to be professional ballerinas. And that may be beyond the dreams of a single parent family earning only $2,000 a month.
Gong Jiaqi is a fifth-grade student at an elementary school for working children in Shenzhen. Every weekend, Gong Jiaqi trains with the Little Flower Ballet.
The Little Flower Ballet is a public service arts education organization that provides free ballet lessons to migrant children who are talented dancers.
Gong Jiaqi has been studying here for a year and a half, and is one of Little Flower's best students.
But despite this, Kung was still only interested in ballet as a hobby, and did not expect to go on to a career in ballet.
Until one day, a great opportunity came to her - the Guangzhou Art School was coming to enroll their ballet troupe.
If she could get into the Guangzhou Art School, she could hope to enter the Guangzhou Ballet or even the Central Ballet.
The teachers of Little Flower started to train the best students of the troupe for this enrollment.
Gong Jiaqi started learning ballet late, and although she worked hard, her physical foundation was relatively poor.
During the training, the pain of stretching and pulling out the bones made the little girl unable to hold back and cried.
In fact, what makes her suffer is not only the physical pain, but also the enormous pressure on the spirit.
Gong Jiaqi's father died a few years ago, and her mother works as an odd-job worker in a stall for 2,000 yuan a month. Even if Kung Ka Ki got into the Guangzhou Art School, her family couldn't afford the high tuition fees.
Perhaps the physical pain is still bearable, but the mental despair will really make people break down and cry.
In fact, it is not only Kung Ka Ki who cried, but also the students who participated in the devil's training, except for one person, the other ones all cried.
The only girl who didn't cry was Kung Ka Ki's best friend, Luo Yi.
Luo Yi's dance talent is extremely high and her body flexibility is excellent. All the difficult movements required by the teachers can be easily accomplished by Luo Yi.
In Gong Jiaqi's heart, Luo Yi is the best, and a goal she can never surpass.
Finally, it's the day of the selection test for the art school.
After a rigorous test, seven students from Little Flower Ballet were selected. Gong Jiaqi was lucky to be one of them.
But surprisingly, Luo Yi, the one who has the highest talent and is most favored, was not selected.
This is the first half of the entire documentary, featuring Kung Ka Ki. If the first half of the movie is about the ugly duckling who eventually turns into a white swan through her own hard work, then the first half of the movie is about the ugly duckling who eventually turns into a white swan through her own hard work.
The second half of the movie is about the white swan (Luo Yi), who has broken her wings, and how she works hard to bring her talent into full play, and eventually returns to the blue sky.
Luo Yi, the little girl, let people see, what is called "the more talented people instead of the more hard".
In addition to Kung Ka Ki and Lo Yi, there are many other touching characters in the documentary.
For example, there is this young foreigner from the Kiev Ballet in Ukraine.
He said goodbye to his new wife and came all the way to Shenzhen, China, to work as a ballet teacher in a charity organization.
And then there is Yajun Wang, the leader of the Little Flower Ballet. In fact, as the leader of a public service organization, there is no need to work too hard, but Wang Yajun does not think so.
She ran to Guangzhou many times to find the leadership of the art school in order to let the Guangzhou art school to enroll in Little Flower. In the end, her sincerity impressed the principal of the art school.
She went to the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra every day to accompany Little Flower in their June 1 performance. Every day, she goes to the square where the head of the orchestra often practices in the morning and squats until the head agrees.
At the end of the movie, Kung Ka Ki gets help from kind-hearted people in the society and solves the problem of tuition fee. The film also shows Luo Yi passing the supplementary examination of Guangzhou Art School through her own hard work.
Nowadays, people don't really like to talk about dreams anymore, probably because they've been talked about so much. Some people think that there are dreams who are amazing, and some people think that the dream is actually the most worthless.
Indeed, a person with a dream, and can not become smarter, and can not become stronger, he is still the original him.
The dream will only let you in the helpless reality a little longer, but the specific can last how long, who knows. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new one, and you'll be able to do it for a while.
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