Tonight is the last one of the Spring Festival stalls, reserved for the highest box office and the most discussed one this year-
Hot and piping hot".
In the past, when writing reviews, we would say that we should try to talk about movies as much as possible, but "Hot" is an exception, Jia Ling is a name that cannot be avoided at all when evaluating this film, she is another protagonist in this film parallel to the heroine she plays.
The heroine's name is Le Ying, there was this stalk when "Li Huanying" was "Li Huanying", when the pinyin is connected to read, Le Ying-Ling.
Le Ying is Jia Ling, the character has undergone a reborn change in appearance, she has also undergone a reborn change in appearance, the character is learning boxing, she is also learning boxing, the character is losing weight, she is also losing weight, the character wants to win once, she also wants to win once.
She made the movie's tidbits and easter eggs also a part of the movie - because that was the ending of the role of "Jia Ling".
It is also because of this particularity that before we talk about the movie, we need to talk about where we should put Jia Ling and "Hot and Hot" to comment.
1. Jia Ling's preciousness.
When I went to Beijing to see the ** of the Spring Festival stalls, I went to the park where Jia Ling's company was located to do business, and found that almost the windows of her company were not exposed, and they were all covered by curtains. I also saw more than one person with a camera nearby, and my friend told me that they were all paparazzi who wanted to take pictures of Jia Ling's current situation in advance.
This kind of "curiosity of the whole people" has also made the film's ** go to misreading and quarreling, critics think that she is making box office with the gimmick of **, singing about the director's ability, and supporting her voice that Jia Ling is the only seedling of Chinese female directors, which should be tolerated and should not be criticized.
But I think before we talk about and quarrel about this film, we need to figure out first, what is Jia Ling's preciousness?
Of course, Jia Ling is related to women, but this kind of connection is at the market level, she is not the only female director in China, but the only female director of commercial films who can carry the box office with her own name, which is the key.
Her films have always had nothing to do with feminism in the narrow sense, and it is not necessary to put her in the genre of Greta, who made "Barbie".
This ** itself has nothing to do with the feminist perspective in terms of creation, and if you insist on evaluating it from a feminist perspective, it will make the movie show more problems.
Therefore, the whole ** is just an explosion of Jia Ling's energy as an individual, and it has nothing to do with the identity of a woman.
She is more like the only female boss in a company who can be in the management and has the right to speak, so that female actors can play more heroines, can have more supporting roles for female actors, and know how to shoot women.
The most typical example is the one hanging on the hot search today, "hot and piping **aimed at the face of the person".
This is where Jia Ling is really valuable, so for me personally, how to treat "Hot and Hot" is very clear - even if it is a gimmick to lose weight, so what? In the past, a large number of movies with male actors who lost weight were all used as one of the selling points, and they were treated equally, which is no problem.
But we also have to figure out that the best way to support such a female director is to buy tickets, not to prohibit criticism, as long as she shoots, we will buy tickets, under the weakness of the market ratio, buying votes is a kind of vote, but prohibiting criticism is a gentle strangulation that makes it difficult for "Jia Ling" to go further.
We need to support, encourage, and more importantly, advise.
Second, what is the movie like?
The place where I shed tears when I watched it for the first time was the aisle where she appeared in the ring in the last tidbits, Jia Ling walked through the position before she lost weight, and the first real shot after losing weight, she suddenly couldn't shoot halfway through and ran back to the lounge to cry alone.
This is the biggest advantage of "Hot", which is brought about by the particularity we said at the beginning - Jia Ling is filming herself, like that crying, for others, others cry without warning, but for herself, it is an inevitable accumulation of emotions, she knows exactly what the heroine will think of in a situation that others can't find, what emotions she will have, and what she needs to vent.
She knows her character as well as her body.
I'll take some specific points.
A person with low self-esteem is reborn after a great deal of pain, what will she think about the moment she is about to step into the ring?
The answer Jia Ling gave was the aisle I mentioned at the beginning, and the final presentation in the film was a surreal one, arranging for Le Ying, who had become thinner and stronger, to see her past self on the glass, and let her past self say cheers to her and give her a thumbs up.
What I see is the past year, and the past self, not excited, nervous, proud, but the last "back" in the timeline.
This is a very restrained and precise presentation of perspective. This should also be the reason why she cried bitterly in the tidbits, because Jia Ling in reality must have really seen herself a year ago, which makes the second half of the movie expensive and effective, and also makes the tidbits part of the story of the movie, and even that is the real ending, which suddenly has a sense of power.
Another example, Le Ying's tears.
What are the most obvious characteristics of a person with extremely low self-esteem and a people-pleasing personality?
I also think the answer given by Jia Ling is very accurate, she doesn't cry, and she doesn't like to say that it hurts.
Before that suicide, Le Ying didn't cry once (the fascia knife scraping that time was for comedic effect doesn't count), she was asked for a house by her sister, broke up with her family, was dumped by her "new boyfriend", was humiliated in public when she recorded a show, was betrayed by her boss **, betrayed by her best friend and boyfriend, and went to be a bridesmaid, she didn't shed a single tear in all the changes.
The following points were also deliberately emphasized in the recording of the show, Yang Zi's role made the director close-up tears, but Le Ying couldn't shed anything.
This is a sign of inferiority complex, because she feels unworthy of shedding tears, and she is numb to so many frustrations. She is always asking others about the "pain" and keeping the "okay" to herself.
That's why the dialogue between the ending and Haokun is so important, because every line corresponds to her changes one by one.
Does it hurt? It hurts a lot.
Eating bullfrogs? I don't like bullfrogs.
Dine? Another day.
What day? It depends on the mood.
And a little more detailed, a change in sound.
After Du Leying became thinner and stronger, her voice was still "low-voiced", she did not speak louder because of self-confidence, and she did not become a sunny and cheerful image. This is not in line with the tension of the characters in the movie, but it is more in line with the natural state of people, Jia Ling knows very well that decades of introverted personality will not suddenly become extroverted, and the acquisition of a sense of value does not need to rely on extroverted personality to present.
These are all emotions that only Jia Ling can write about, and they are also the most unbeatable part of this film.
But maybe because the character is too close to her, there is a very obvious one in the script that comes from her overwhelms, she is always worried that the audience thinks that Du Leying is not motivated enough to learn boxing, so she adds a lot of strong stimulation, that is, extreme events.
Her boyfriend cheated on her best friend, her sister spoke ill of her and robbed the house, her cousin calculated her on a variety show for popularity, she was sexually harassed by her boss at work, and her new boyfriend in the gym was also a scumbag. The characters fell into a situation of betrayal and separation in the high-density conflict, and the conflicts were too frequent and intense, which made it a little difficult for the audience to substitute themselves for the empathy for the character when watching the first half.
In the first half of this character, some aspects that should have been portrayed are missing, and these details that can flesh out the arc of this character are replaced by conflict in the movie.
In fact, there is no need to be afraid, the audience can feel the sincerity-
In the last Le Ying boxing match, the national women's boxing champion Zhang Guiling was invited to play the opponent, Jia Ling was obviously a real fight without a stand-in, and she used a sports perspective to shoot the final boxing, not a sports woman;
In the movie, Le Ying's crying after suicide and the sentence "It hurts", and Jia Ling's crying in the middle of the aisle in the extra-movie tidbits.
The bottomless weight record memo, that mom, I'm so tired;
Jia Ling wrote sexual desire for a fat female character for the first time in a domestic film, as well as the fist for the ** person;
Of course, there is also the 100 pounds of weight that some people don't want to admit.
Isn't that all there is to sincerity?