One day, not so very many years ago, a small peasant boy was chosen to study ballet at the Beijing Dance Academy. His mother urged him to take this chance of a lifetime. But Li was only eleven years old and he was scared and lonely, pushed away from all that he had ever known and loved. He hated the strict training routines and the strange place he had been brought to. All he wanted to do was go home – to his mother, father and six brothers, to his own small village. But soon Li realised that his mother was right. He had the chance to do something special with his life – and he never turned back . . . Visit the official Mao's Laster Dancer Movie website maoslastdancermovie.com

本作の真髄は、政治の荒波に抗い自己を確立する少年の、不屈の魂の咆哮にあります。極貧の村から世界へ羽ばたく過程で描かれる家族愛と自由への渇望は、バレエという肉体の言語を通じて普遍的な芸術へと昇華されています。著者の力強い筆致は、個人の意志が国家の壁を超える瞬間の輝きを鮮烈に捉えています。 映像版では華麗な舞踏が視覚を圧倒しますが、書籍には活字でしか辿り着けない内面的な葛藤の深淵が刻まれています。映像の躍動感と読書による深い思索が共鳴するとき、自由の真の意味が胸に迫ります。この重層的な感動をぜひ体験してください。