What happened in the beginning and what happened in the end were the same. People started playing music and dancing to the beat. It made it feel like nothing in between even really mattered at all in the end. All that mattered was the music, the beat, and the dance. Which makes sense, considering over half the movie had that continuous beat playing in the background. Why was that the central focus though?

There is obviously a pretty straight-forward connection between this plot and the Greek myth about Orpheus and Eurydice. So why portray it in this way? Why with music and dance at the heart? It took me back to the carnivalesque theory we talked about in class. The whole film is a dance between two differing subjects: joy and sadness, life and death, love and hate, frivolity and humility. And just like in a real dance, there is no “winner” out of the two partners; they both dominate at different times and yet work together to create one whole revolving masterpiece. A perfect song about just this concept is “I Hate You Then I Love You.” Quite humorous in my opinion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Y0tC31VcA

 There is this natural dance and beat that we all feel in life. We’re dancing with the opposites that life brings, with the good and bad of every day. There’s no stopping it. Just like the beginning and ending of this film portray, the dance is eternal. It’s never over.