Strictly Ballroom is a 1992 Australian romantic comedy film. This film tells the story of an Australian ballroom dancer, Scott and his struggle to establish his unique personal style of dance steps to win the Pan-Pacific Grand Prix Dancing Championship. Scott’s steps have been opposed by all the ballroom dancers including his mother because his steps are not strictly ballroom.
In the whole story, I can see the value of determination in Scott. Even though Scott was opposed by people around him, he still wants to use his own unique steps to dance. Her original partner did not agree with him, and she chose to change her partner. The moment everyone is opposing his idea, there is a lady named Fran who is not a dancer is very interested in his unique dancing ideas. Scott started to teach Franc the ways to dance strictly ballroom as the hope is there when someone wants to be his dancing partner. Through whole the way of practices, there is no one agreed with them. Scott did not give up his determination when everyone wants him to conform to original dancing steps. He had finally stronger his determination when he has met with Fran’s family. Franc’s grandmother and father teach him the steps and rhythms, he very enjoys when he is dancing together with her family.
The value of conformity can be seen in all the dancers in the film except Scott. Scott is a maverick dancer who wants to create his personal unique dancing steps in winning the competition. All the dancers opposed to his new steps including his mother who has tried hard to stop Scott from dancing incorrectly. Despite Scott knowing that breaking rules would lead to losing the competition, he did not conform to them. Even though Scott lost the competition, his dance partner, Liz and the approval everyone, he still did not conform to the original strict ballroom moves. In the last competition of the film, he finally dancing with his new partner, Franc by using what he had learned from her family. In the end, this non-conformity led to a memorable performance.
However, romance scene has always caught my attention. The intimate love fulfilled with commitments, intimacy, and passion. This can be seen in between the interaction of Fran and Scott. From the movie, Scott and Fran share proximity when they are dancing and practising together. When Scott wants Fran to be his new partner, they did spend long hours of time in practising dance together in the dancing studio. The power of love has been shown when Scott wants to dance in his own way and Fran wanted to dance with him in Scott's way. Both Scott and Fran shares mutual liking to each other. The intimacy between Scott and Franc can be shown when they are dancing together. Though Fran was the one who fell in love towards Scott, her love did encourage and inspire Scott when he is opposing by all the people around him. After the interesting training with Fran and her family, Scott fell in love toward Fran. I would like to think their similarity in interest can lead them to be a good couple in the intimate relationship as they can practise and join competition together. The honours of winning competitions would be their best memories when they are getting older.
Lastly, Scott's family and Fran's family do express their love and caring in different ways. In the whole movie, Scott's mother did not support Scott when he needs support from his lovely family. His mother shows her love in wanting Scott dance in original dancing steps and she had found the best dancing partner for him. On the other hand, Fran's father did show his love in teaching them the steps in dancing and they did enjoy it happily. I can see the passion of Fran's father and grandmother in dancing through their facial expression. Fran's family always showing the positive support even though her father initially did not allow Fran to dance. A sentence "Listen to the rhythm, do not be fear" from Fran's grandmother and the rhythms clap by Scott's father and others did encourage as well as motivate Franc and Scott to dance during the competition though someone are trying to stop them from dancing on the stage. They finally get approved from all the people and lead the audients to dance together with them.
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