That Girl in Pinafore

There was a time,
when we wore pinafores,
when songs were poems,
when people wrote letters and used pagers,
when 情人 played guitar and sang to each other.

“Nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”

– Milan Kundera

Mao’s Last Dancer

 

An inspiring story about how a little boy grew from this:

To this:

 

Personally enjoyed the dancing scenes immensely- there’s nothing like seeing the human body express itself in all abandon. The fact that this was based on a true story made it more touching. I’m thinking of screening this as a post-exam movie for some of my classes. However, I can foresee having to explain, after the show, that communism isn’t “always bad”.

As with many things in this world, it is humans and human nature which taints it.