What would happen if you have an innocent dream in this real world? What would happen if you don’t know what you really want and just dream of it? What would happen if you don’t change after the failure of your pursuit of dream?
I am sure that you would get hurt seriously, lose yourself and lose everything you have.
The film “Dreamgirls” is briefly told a story of three Detroit girls who had the same dream to sing on the stage as a team. After failing from a talent competition, they met an ambitious Cadillac dealer with plans of breaking into the music business. Then, they started to become famous. With the duration of the story, they had fights with each other and separated for a while. At the end of the story, they forgave each other. Whether they would do for their lives was not told, but they would stay together as a family.
Regardless of the ending, the two main characters, Deena Jones and Effie White, is what I meant to discuss. First of all, the three girls all had a dream which is beautiful, wonderful and innocent. Also, they were inexperienced; so, they didn’t know how dark the operation of the music market was and they just wanted to make their dream come true. Being famous, one started losing their mind while the other still stick to her great dream which resulted in the later conflict.
Deena Jones, who had good outlooks and sweet voice, was pointed as a team leader by Curtis, which also showed the aspect of the realism of the world that people would prefer a pretty lady even though she had an ordinary voice rather than a fat girl with a good voice. And, with Curtis’ coaxing words, Deena began to lose her true herself and soaked herself in her fame and her successful music business after marred to Curtis. However, as she was forbidden to play a role in a movie she wanted, she suddenly knew that she was not herself. Besides, Curtis told her directly that her voice was nothing but his trust and packaging, which the words were so cruel that she finally realized that she got to find her own.
Effie White who had a beautiful and powerful voice didn’t compromise to others easily because of her tough personality. She had a great dream that she should be the best and the leader of the team. She was so pride that she couldn’t understand why Deena was going to lead and couldn’t bear why she was not the top. After driven out from the group, she almost lost everything she had, including friends and a job and she still didn’t change for a while. Realizing, she grew in her mind and started from the beginning.
As far as I am concerned, the conflict between dreams and reality shown in the film indeed puts me into a meditation that I really wonder that does dream come true and then, come after the beauty? What’s the absolute beauty? Is it a kind of perpetuity? If there is a possibility that beautiful dream doesn’t exist. Nevertheless, it is during the process of perusing, after the self-growing, recalling the events and learning to appreciate to those we had before and then, those would become our dream. Also, as we find that there is no beautiful dream, we can face those difficulties with more courage and wisdoms to overcome them once and for all to the end of our life. This way, I believe that no matter what happens in the future, I would be able to continue my life journey.
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