Saigon Electric is a dance movie focusing on Ribbon Dancing and Hip
Hop which both come together at a community dance center slated for
demolition by a corporate hotel developer. A young woman from
the countryside named Mai (Van Trang) comes to Saigon to further her
dancing carreer at the local dance academy, but initially fails her
audition and so has to look for a day job. When she is not
working, she teaches Ribbon Dancing at the community dance
center. Her landlord is a crusty old drunk nicknamed the
Professor (Phan Tan Thi) who lucky for the movement to save the
community center has some connections at City Hall. The movie has a
fair amount of Ribbon Dancing and Hip-Hop/Break Dancing sequences
throughout. Four stars. In Vietnamese with English
subtitles.
The movie ranks as non-violent because it has only five violent
scenes in it. These include: there is a brief cock fight, a
girl slaps another girl, some boys in the hood are ready to rumble,
but nothing happens, two girls get into a fight over a boy and a
girl passes out after taking drugs.
The previews include: violent previews for The Heir Apparent and The
Skin I Live In, a somewhat violent preview for Gainsbourg and
non-violent previews for Bored To Death and Pariah, plus two
non-violent commercials.
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