Got free tickets to watch Mao's Last Dancer. Don't have the time to read the book, so better to watch the movie. Doesn't matter how thick (or thin) the book is, it'll be over in two hours (or so). Anyway, I would've paid to watch the movie. It was that good.Story if Li Cuixin from his hard life at Madame Mao's Beijing Dance Academy, flying to Boston as an exchange student, being discovered as a star, marrying Elizabeth, and staying behind in the US. There was a big standoff at the Chinese consulate where he was detained because of his decision to stay. Fortunately, his friends stood up for him, and his lawyer was able to get a judge's mandate to let him stay. Because of that defiant act, he was banned from going back to China.
One time he got an audience with Barbara Bush, and he mentioned his predicament of not being able to reunite with his parents. Would you know it, in his next performance, his parents were in attendance, and they had a tearful reunion after the show. Things got better after that. He recovered from his divorce and married an Aussie dancer. Moved to Australia and years later, even managed to visit his village in China again.
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