SHALL WE DANCE?

One popular part of culture is a dancing. People adore dancing because of its many advantages such as relax, fun, socializing and kind of sports. So there are many films about dancing and relationships that dancing brings for example: Shall we dance? or Dirty dancing: Havana Nights.

Shall we dance? A workaholic lawyer’s life and marriage are really changed when he follows a beautiful woman to a Chicago dance studio. In my opinion what begins as a romantic comedy soon turns into story about a place where one finds passion.

The movie is based on Japanese hit that won fans around the world. It seems to me that the film with its thrilling dance brings the story about American’s search for fulfillment and happiness.

Richard Gere stars as John Clark, a man with a wonderful job, a charming wife (played by Susan Saradon) and a loving family, who feels that something is missing as he makes his way every day through the city. He commutes home and sees a beautiful young teacher named Pauline (played by Jennifer Lopez). John sees her through the window of a dance studio and admires her. John jumps off the train one night and hoping to meet her, signs up for dance lessons.

At first it seems like a mistake. His teacher is not Pauline, but the much older Miss Mitzi (played by Anita Gillette) and John is clumsy. He meets Pauline and she tells John that she hopes he has come to the studio to seriously study dance and not to look for a date. During lessons, he starts to fall in love with dance. Soon he realizes that his attraction to Pauline is nothing in comparison to what he feels for dance.

John has to keep his new obsession secret from his family and co-workers. The more time John spends away from home the more his wife becomes suspicious; she hires a private detective to follow him.

After all he tells about his secret his family and they realize that dance is what he really dreams about.