Nient chills and sleepless nights. When you meet the names of Stephen King and Mike Flanagan, we immediately think of horror, but in this case the effect is very different: The Life of Chuckreleased on 18 Septemberpresents itself as a Dream with open eyes that celebrates life. The heart of the film is a sequence destined to remain impressed, a hypnotic and overwhelming dance guided by Tom Hiddlestoncapable of transforming dance steps into a hymn to unexpected, magnetic and moving joy.
Tom Hiddleton’s dance scene in The Life of Chuck
An ordinary man, a name of name Chuck krantz (Tom Hiddleston), who during A business trip stops, kidnapped by the music of a street drummer. It is the beginning of a five and a half minutes sequence that director Mike Flanagan called “the jewel of the film’s crown”. Without notice, Chuck starts dancingcrossing Swing, Bossa Nova and Cha-Chamtors with elegance, Then inviting a passerby (Annalise Basso) to join him. A memorable duet, a parenthesis of pure happiness that explodes in the middle of the road, transforming an ordinary moment into a choreography that would not disfigure next to La La Land.
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The plot and the meaning of the film
But why is this dance so important? To understand it, you have to enter the universe of The Life of Chuck. Taken from the homonymous story of Stephen King, The film traces the life of its protagonist in reverse chronological orderfrom his death to his birth. There Dance is not Chuck’s very essence: a passion inherited from the grandmother, cultivated by a child looking at the video tapes of Gene Kelly.
Ballary makes him feel special, alive. That scene on the street is nothing more than the culmination of a quiet existence, a regurgitation of vitality that contains the message of the film: Every life, even the most normal, contains a universe of precious moments to be grasped.
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