Movie Title: Ballet Of Two People
English Title: Ballet Of Two Dancers
More Foreign Titles: Duet
Film Genre: Family
Length: 93 mins
Country/Region: China
Language: Mandarin
Production Company: Tianjin Film Studio, CCTV Movie Channel
Release Date: China March 8, 2005
Plot
The story takes place in a small town with a unique Chinese Huizhou style of architecture and ancient folk customs. Since ancient times, it has been a custom here for men to go out for business and labor. De Gui, who went to the north to work, took a woman as his daughter-in-law, and people used to call her De Gui's daughter. Degui family, natural beauty, hard-working, strong, optimistic, but not as expected, more than thirty years old can not give birth to a child, in the close friend Jinmei's persuasion, to adopt a girl - Xianxian. Like a local daughter-in-law, she set a large jar on the floor of the hall, filled with water, and wished her husband peace. But misfortune struck, Degui outside work fell to his death ...... grief, Degui's family with a sledgehammer smashed the vat, the tank of water filled the ground ...... in order to take care of Xianxian, Degui's family quit his job, did both sweeping the streets, collecting water and sanitation bills, and gluing cartons, The Degui family quit their jobs to sweep the streets, collect water and sanitation fees, and glue paper boxes and bind books. ...... Early in the morning, when the Degui family came to the alley to sweep the streets with Xianxian on their backs, they found that the people had already swept their own doorsteps. Grandma Meng told her that the adopted Xianxian was unlucky and had an evil spirit, and advised her to send it back. Degui's family believes that her husband's death has nothing to do with Xianxian, and that the child is innocent, and that she will never go back on her adoption. But the townspeople still said, sweeping the streets can, not allowed the Degui family mother and daughter into their threshold, the figure is to work outside the relatives of peace. As the years passed, the Degui family kept their promise and never entered the neighbor's house. I don't have any milk, so I'll leave the white flour for Xianxian to eat, and I'll eat the sweet potatoes and pickles, and I'll have a conflict with Jinmei about it. Jinmei in a fit of anger to return the child to the orphanage, was Degui family a hand to take back. Although the life was hard, the Degui family felt happy, she had a wish, hoping that Xianxian could dance like a fairy on tiptoe (ballet). However, because the Degui family always carried the child on their backs to go out to work, not allowed to go down to the ground, so Xianxian grew up to be four years old and still could not walk. The doctor said that this was caused by shock, and that stimulation might be needed to solve the problem. So the Degui family danced in front of Xianxian every day to "inspire" the child. Sometimes he fell heavily on the ground, jumped again, fell again, until the child cried out of fear, but still could not "stimulate" Xianxian to walk. The Degui family became discouraged. One day, she came into the home from outside, accidentally fell to the head, Xianxian see, suddenly jumped down from the chair, staggering to the side of the mother ...... mother and daughter lying on the ground, laughing happily. From then on, when De Gui's family sweeps the street, Xian Xian accompanies her mother's song and dances a self-made fairy dance. Xianxian always thought she was born to her mother. When she heard the gossip and went home to ask her mother, the Degui family resolutely told their daughter the truth about her adoption. Xianxian was touched and shouted, "You say it, my mom and I are not afraid of you to say it, Degui's family is my mom. ...... The next day before dawn, Xianxian woke up early and swept the streets for her mom. The mother and daughter have become more and more affectionate. Provincial dance school to enrollment, Xianxian with the mother learned dance and the old song impressed, infected the teacher, Degui family with her simple, persistent conquest of the teacher, but also won the respect of the neighbors. Xian Xian came back from vacation, families moved out of beds, door panels, eight fairy table, set up in the alley, let her dance on it they have never seen the ballet, appreciate ...... De Gui's family saw his daughter from the provincial capital jumped to Nanjing, Beijing, although more and more far away, the heart is more and more close to the heart, can not help but dance once taught his daughter's fairy dance. Although the dance is clumsy, but in the eyes of the daughter she is more beautiful than the fairy dance, because the mother is always accompanied by their own in the dance.