When I watched "Hot and Hot", my mother quietly wiped her tears before me.
Out of the theater, my mother said, "From the transformation of spring, summer, autumn and winter, I want to cry." Later, she was beaten by the other party and had no power to fight back, stumbling and resisting, and at one point she poked me at once - she was really difficult. ”
It seems that Jia Ling did it, and at the same time moved me in my twenties and my mother in my fifties. "Hot and Hot" is a real women's movie.
On February 10, the first day of the Lunar New Year, "Hot and Hot" was released. Up to now, "Hot and Hot" is temporarily the box office champion of the Spring Festival, and the total box office of Maoyan Professional Edition has reached 446.9 billion. 13.10,000 people gave 7A score of 9.
Saying that it is a women's movie is not to provoke gender antagonism, nor is it to say that this is a movie that is only suitable for women. On the contrary,It's suitable for everyone to watch, everyone who has been at the bottom, who has fought desperately, who has fallen and got up, can find resonance in this movie.
I want to say that I finally saw one in a domestic movieBoth ideal and realistic, novel and three-dimensional, full of vitality, respectable female image, Du Leying.
Before the release of "Hot and Hot", there were many presets on the Internet. Looking at the synopsis, you will feel that this is a "Ugly Girl Turns Over"-style ugly duckling counterattack movie; Looking at the hot search "Jia Ling**100 catties", you will feel that this is a ** documentary that persuades women to "serve in the United States"; Looking at the subject matter, you will feel that this is a vulgar family carnival that is forcibly sensational**.
The story shell of Hot and Hot is cheesy, but the ending is completely unconventional. (Some spoilers are included below).
Du Leying, played by Jia Ling, after graduating from college and working for a period of time, broke away from society, closed her social circle, and became a "dead fat house". At the age of thirty-two, Le Ying's life is already a mixture of "two extremes":Completely self-closing to the external society, hiding all emotions, and completely indifferent and indulgent to the self-world, and later self-deprecating in the show, "I can stay for a few more years" is a vivid psychological portrayal.
Whether a counterattack story is true or not, the most important thing is to lay out the reasons for the protagonist's counterattack, that is, the dramatic motivation for the characters to begin to transform. This measure is difficult to grasp, and if the foreshadowing is not enough, it will become a proposition essay, and if you use too much force, you will be suspected of forcibly sensationalizing. In addition, it must also conform to the logic of reality, and the external and internal driving forces must be realistic.
Hot and Hot plays a trick very cleverly.
At the beginning, her boyfriend cheated on her best friend, and her sister Le Dan (played by Zhang Xiaofei) fought with her for real estate, and Le Ying chose to run away from home. She met her sweetheart, boxing coach Haokun (played by Lei Jiayin), and signed up for boxing lessons for love.
But Le Ying's heartwarming point was the moment when she heard Haokun talk about her dreams. It's not so much that she's obsessed with men, it's better that she has a dream; It's not so much that she likes Haokun, it's better to say that she likes people with dreams.
Then the dream was shattered, and Haokun chose 30,000 between 30,000 yuan and "win once"; Cousin Doudou (played by Yang Zi) invited her to be on the show, but she was pushed to the cusp of **. Le Ying's "stable" life changed overnight, and the audience thought that she finally couldn't bear it anymore and began to transform and practice boxing.
It wasn't until Le Ying was knocked to the ground by the professional boxer opposite in the boxing ring and inserted a flashback at the right time that the audience was able to get a glimpse of the full picture of the incident:
Haokun betrayed her, even if he lived with Le Ying for many days, he turned his face in front of others and denied Le Ying's relationship with him;
Doudou also betrayed her, and the program team maliciously edited, caused controversy, and made Le Ying faint, all of which were guided by Doudou.
What Haokun and Doudou represent is not only the betrayal of love and family affection, but also the ultimate failure of the people-pleasing personality's efforts to connect with the world.
People with a people-pleasing personality will be anxious to reciprocate more kindness as long as others release a small amount of kindness to them. Haokun's misreported small note, Doudou came to the police station to relieve the siege, all made Le Ying rush over desperately, but completely collapsed.
Jia Ling was asked in an interview "Why did Du Leying choose to change", is it because of the betrayal of a scumbag or a relative? Jia Ling was silent for a while and saidBecause she couldn't find love in the way she used to live.
Because "I can't find love", on a stormy night, Le Ying walked through the endless darkness and finally jumped off the windowsill. Putting her to death and then rebirth, the rising sun reflected on her face, Le Ying did not close her eyes, and she finally woke up completely.
So far, Le Ying's character arc has completed all the closed loops, the foreshadowing and reversal of the consciousness awakening process are very complete, and the transformation is also all-round. She not only lost 100 pounds, but also changed her attitude towards life from passive to active, and her thinking completed the transformation from "other standard" to "me".
When Le Ying began to love herself, she had already won.
As a director and actor, Jia Ling is inward-looking, with a non-professional sincerity, sensibility, and bravery. Spring, summer, autumn, and winter were spent one by one, and Le Ying carried out fat loss and strength training in a down-to-earth manner, and the dimension, sense of strength, and eyes transformed together, and the visual impact was quite strong.
In the boxing match, Jia Ling boldly used a long lens to unabashedly film herself fighting and being beaten, and the scene was real and shocking.
The film is adapted from the Japanese movie "100 Yuan Love", which is different from the Japanese version of the decadent styleAlthough "Hot and Hot" also tells a very heavy story, the viewing experience is very relaxed, and the theme is also lightly landedThere are two reasons for this.
On the one hand, Jia Ling's good comedy expression is appropriately presented in the film. The flaws of the Chinese-style pleasing personality, the involution and mutual harm of others, that is, hell, and the selfishness in family and relationships, are all accurately deconstructed with various jokes and stalks, and at the same time, the heaviness of the core is also dissipated. Laughing and worrying at the same time, this is a comedy that touches the heart.
The cameo comedians all contributed natural and effective performances.
When Zhang Xiaofei and Jia Ling were in the same frame, they did not have the "mother-daughter relationship" of "Hello, Li Huanying" at all, but showed the calculating and small citizen side of her sister Le Dan very thoroughly; Lei Jiayin interprets the image of a scumbag who is not distracted by his kidneys and is full of dreams, but he is actually open-eyed, and his stupid appearance in front is easy to deceive the audience; Ma Li and Wei Xiang's quarrel on the show is also very interesting.
However, just like some people don't like sketches, some people find it boring to laugh at sketches. Matter.
On the other hand, it is ** Yu Jia Ling's delicacy as a female director. The film is not blindly enthusiastic and inspirational, nor does it have so much reconciliation and forgiveness, Jia Ling only reflects the transformation of the context through some intertextual details.
For example, Le Ying and Haokun walked side by side for the first time, and Le Ying only dared to bow her head and walk behind Haokun; When they met again on the street a year later, Le Ying chased Haokun with a case of beer, and ran in front of Haokun in a daze.
For another example, Le Ying looked at Haokun who was boxing from outside the boxing gym for the first time, and Haokun only had himself in his eyes; And when it was Haokun's turn to look at Le Ying boxing outside the hall, Le Ying had no distractions, only boxing.
There is also a line that appears twice in the film, "Look at the mood".
If you had two apples, one large and one small, that your friend wanted, which would you give them? In the past, I gave both, and my friends thought I didn't like apples. Now, look at the mood.In the end, Le Ying rejected the scumbag, and it was also a chic three words, "depending on the mood". With that, she left lightly, leaving only the back of the boxing.
Hot and Hot completes the narrative of the little people very well. The most successful thing about the whole film is that there is no really successful ending. There is neither the miracle of practicing the miracle of defeating the champion for a year, nor the family carnival of reconciliation with the family, nor the love brain of forgiving the scumbag. There is only the soft stubbornness of ordinary people, and the shallow relief after accepting themselves.
At the end of the day, what kind of movie is Hot and Hot?
Here is another quote from Jia Ling: "It's good to lie down comfortably, I don't think there is any contradiction between lying flat and winning, you just need to be happy, really." ”
"Hot and Hot" is a movie that is happy to watch after being heavily PUA by life.
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