there are certain films that every film fan wants to say they've seen but actually haven't seen it
and for me dirty dancing was one of those i felt like the only person who had never seen it kind
of felt ashamed as a film fan i finally made the effort to watch it it was on amazon prime i had no
excuses it never really had appealed to me before but then i never really knew what it was about
but i sat down and watched it and i kind of enjoyed it it's not a film i would watch again
but i can see the appeal but i will say the soundtrack for this film is one of
the most incredible in any film i've ever seen i won't go into too much detail about
what's in it because part of the fun for me was when these brilliant songs kept
popping up all of the time um but i will just say that the the soundtrack is incredible and
even for that alone it's absolutely worth watching but as a narrative it's a lot more meaningful than
i thought so it was released originally in 1987 directed by emil argelino written by
elena bergstein starring of course patrick swayze with johnny castle and jennifer gray as baby and
the narrative is as i said not what i expected this is actually set at um a holiday resort at
the catskills holiday resort and baby is actually there with her family and she meets one of the
camps dancing instructors johnny castle and one thing leads to another and she ends up having to
take the role of one of becomes dancers kind of as a favor um but really just as a good
deed but she can't really dance so johnny castle has to try and teach her to dance and get her up
to scratch in order to put on performances as you get with holiday resorts and camp resorts
but obviously there are going to be problems with that but it's not actually about dancing i mean it
kind of is a lot of it is about the emotional connection with dancing how dancing makes you
feel um you know the emotive very sensual side of dancing that is obviously a big part of it
but it's also about real life um class divisions backgrounds doing things for people you've only
just met i i don't want to say what it is but something happens to one of the dancers that means
that they won't be able to perform on certain nights and the fact that baby steps up and does
this for this person who she doesn't really know is you know it's she's a good person i i don't
think many people would do what she did i wouldn't do what she did um i will be perfectly honest
so there's a lot in this that's more than just about dancing but of course it's also
a lot about dancing needless to say i don't like films about dancing there are exceptions
but i remember the first the first film i ever saw about dancing that i can remember was step
up and i do not like that film this has kind of put me in a bad mood for dancing based films and i
will always give them a go nine out of ten times i don't care about them dirty dancing is one of the
exceptions i genuinely liked it the dance scenes themselves again they're not about the dancing as
such it's about the emotional aspect you know the sensual side of dancing but also baby and these
emotions that she's facing she's quite prim and proper and naive of the world and johnny castle
makes her look at the world in a different way it's very unpredictable it's absolutely nothing
like what i thought it would be like i will be perfectly honest as i said it's um a lot more
detailed and in-depth and moving and emotional than i thought it would be and i'm very proud of
the film as a film fan you know if that makes any sense when you're a film fan and you watch a film
you just become so proud of the people who put it together and made it because they've clearly
created something that is spectacular do i think it's as good as everybody says it is
i mean it is a classic and i think it always will be a classic and i could see the appeal
i would say it's a film you have to see before you die
because of how culturally important it can be but if i had just if i had never heard
of this randomly found the dvd and gave it a watch i would say it was pretty decent
but not something that would ever be my favorite so you can look at it either way
but what i will say is that the the iconic scene from it um the time of my life scene
is that the name of the song i'm not sure what the song's actually called um but you know the
scene i mean that for me was not my favorite moment there were a lot more moments in this
that i thought were more moving but that's one of the more iconic aspects it's a good
film glad i've seen it if you haven't seen it i do recommend it it is a good film i don't think it's
perfection it's not one of my favorites but i can see the appeal and i'm glad that i've seen it