Text |Li Yongjin.
The movie "Hot and Hot" is unsurprisingly "hot and hot" and popular. The topic of "Jia Ling lost 100 pounds" was hot before it was broadcast, and the film quickly topped the real-time box office after its release, and the discussion heat rose all the way and successfully went out of the circle, faintly showing signs of becoming a phenomenal movie with a win-win situation for word-of-mouth and box office.
Relative to the popularity, the overall narrative of the movie is actually very simple, it captures the cool point of how the "pleasing personality" rises, the audience almost knows that the story will develop along the vein of "counterattack" all the way to the ignition point from the first glance when the audience sees the fat protagonist, if it weren't for the actor Jia Ling who really lost a hundred pounds intuitively in the two-hour movie, and even if it weren't for the star Jia Ling with such a high national degree who brought such a strong visual impact to the audience, None of this movie will achieve such a high level of popularity.
The deeper logic is that Jia Ling not only gave up her obese image, but also meant that she gave up a certain important audience and memory point that she relied on as a comedy star in the past - chubby joy, non-offensive mellow and funny. Because of this, Jia Ling has become a "national sister" of men, women and children, and she seems to have reached the ceiling above many actresses on this road - and now she is self-exploring the road to breakthrough from her comfort zone, and successfully broke out of the cocoon into a butterfly, what more inspirational self-expression could be?
It is often said that it is often difficult for celebrities who have been famous for a long time to produce works that are widely "down-to-earth", because they are in the whirlpool of the focus of much attention, and their lives have long been separated from the struggles of ordinary people, even if the dust that pounces on their faces is no longer real dust. But only the earthiness and spiciness of real life are the most powerful and successful expressions of all narratives.
From "Li Huanying" to "Hot and Hot", looking at the two "punches" of director Jia Ling and actor Jia Ling in the film industry, they all presented a very real personal experience - as a successful Jia Ling, she has long been surrounded by smiling faces. Since becoming famous, you can imagine how many heavy blows she has suffered in life, and she has already won the boxing matches in the silent confrontation in a place that people can't see.
Now, she wraps this strength and unyielding temperament in the movie "Hot and Hot", no wonder some viewers commented: There is no Du Leying in this movie, only Jia Ling. This movie-watching feeling is right.
To a certain extent, "Hot and Hot" is to express the creator's real emotional experience in a more superficial way, and choose the "adversity stalks" that are more familiar to the audience, can be seen everywhere, and even some bridges may resonate with them, such as "Fat is the original sin", so I have to face the calculation of relatives, the boyfriend is disappointed, the betrayal of girlfriends and other plots are too dramatic and just right, ** otaku, lying flat, social fear, pleasing personality and other social psychology hot words are too crowded, From this point of view, the narrative text of "Hot and Hot" may not be as mature as the previous works such as "Million Dollar Baby" and "100 Yuan Love", which have attracted much attention with the theme of female boxing, but the life energy contained in it from the starring Jia Ling is undoubtedly higher than these two.
As a typical commercial inspirational film, Jia Ling went deep into the virtual space of light and shadow to experience a real butterfly change that is unimaginable to ordinary people, thus bringing a thicker emotional nesting between virtual and real to the slightly bland narrative structure of the film itself. Because of Jia Ling's own heated discussion, from this point of view, this is a "destined to succeed" movie.
From this point on, Jia Ling did her best, like a marathon full of excitement, as she expressed, the exhausted warrior finally crossed the finish line. Her struggle and tiredness are vividly remembered by the audience - Du Leying in the actual presentation of the film, whether it is the lack of self-confidence when she was obese in the early stage, or the light breeze after successfully stepping onto the boxing ring in the later stage, I feel that Jia Ling is suppressing her emotions and "closing the acting". This can be seen as Jia Ling giving up the wide-open and emotionally charged presentation method that she was accustomed to in her past comedy performances, and using a more calm and subtle performance to establish the profundity of the character's character, but also people can't help but worry about whether this is because of the violent blood sugar fluctuations and mood fluctuations caused by Jia Ling's rapid weight gain and weight loss in a short period of time
It is true that good actors will continue to broaden their creative territory through the exploration of different angles, no matter whether Jia Ling chooses to be fat or thin on the screen in the future, we also sincerely hope that this excellent actress can take good care of her body and bring more screen surprises to everyone on the premise of being happy.
Author] Li Yongjin.
The Southern Review