Yesterday morning, I bought the earliest ticket for the 9 o'clock show, and finally saw the real body of "Hot and Hot" for the first time, and also saw Jia Ling who had not been seen for a long time. As soon as the movie began, I found that the Le Ying she played seemed to be a little different from the Jia Ling we knew. Not only does it seem to be a little fatter (I later learned that I had gained weight on purpose), but the whole spirit is also completely in the state of two people. Because the Jia Ling we know is a pistachio who is full of optimism no matter what happens. And she seems to always exude a mysterious self-confidence light, which makes people feel that nothing in the world can trouble her. When Le Ying in "Hot and Hot" first appeared, she was in the monitor of a small supermarket, lazily sleeping on the sofa. When the sun reached her, she sat up and switched sides and went back to sleep. Not long after, using the loud footsteps as a foreshadowing, she officially appeared and asked her mother what she was eating tonight, and immediately went back upstairs to continue sleeping after getting the answer.
is very vivid, and it doesn't need to take more to start with a sentence, and immediately explain the life status of Le Ying. After that, all the trivial troubles that happened around Le Ying, the audience could immediately understand that they actually originated from Le Ying's attitude to life. This is really a strange and distressing Jia Ling. But in the second half of the film, I felt her power again. This kind of power is not presented through the change of image, not through clear muscle lines, or fierce competition, but through herself, the vitality that erupts from her body, I feel a kind of reborn change.
"Hot and Hot" is indeed a new challenge for Jia Ling - no matter what position she is in, director, screenwriter or starring. Unwilling to repeat the formula of success, she chose a new theme, genre, or even a completely different overall atmosphere of the film. And the challenge also stimulates her vitality, allowing us to see her deeper inside and feel where her strength comes from.
So, what kind of problems did Le Ying encounter in her life? Her mother and sister said that when Le Ying just graduated from university, she also went out to work for a while, and then came back, and lived at home for ten years. No one knew what had happened in those days for her to make such a decision. One of the most obvious problems with her life as shown in the story is that she doesn't seem to have any goals in life, nothing she wants.
I sleep at night, I sleep during the day, and when I wake up, I ask what I eat. If you can live, you can reduce all material desires and spiritual needs to the lowest standard. Of course, she also has her own social side, a girlfriend and boyfriend. The girlfriend has an explanation, and the two have been friends for more than ten years. When did the boyfriend start, we don't know. Her friendship and love, like her life, exist in name only. Even if she fell in love with Haokun later, Haokun's pursuit of ideals moved her, and she tried her best to meet all the needs of the other party, until she found out that he was not at all the person who loved boxing and ideals as she advertised. Le Ying is a typical people-pleasing personality. Whatever others ask, she can agree. She didn't want to be on the TV show, so she finally went anyway, and was deceived and used. No one asked her what she thought in her heart, maybe she felt that not saying no to refuse would satisfy others, this was her way of maintaining interpersonal communication due to low self-esteem, so she gave up refusal. Being in such a state of mind for a long time, and finally like a biting snake, we go back to the first point, because she is always sacrificing herself and suppressing herself, and she cannot successfully establish her desire and need for life.
Boxing is important, but it's not boxing that really matters. Participating in the boxing match allowed Le Ying to find a ray of light in the bleak and dull mire of life. What she wants to win through a punch is never the championship of the game, but the dominance of her own life.
So, after she decided to really start training, not only did she gain a whole new motivation in life, but she also took the initiative in her relationships. From now on, both physically and mentally, she is in charge of herself. This is the real core of the film - how to better love yourself and love life. It's certainly not a sports movie on a professional level.
Jia Ling is a director for the second time, and her audio-visual language has matured a lot. For example, the film explains that Le Ying first learned boxing, and at that time she didn't want to rebuild her life, but another kind of flattery.
She passed by the boxing gym and saw Haokun practicing. The love element is a very common catalyst for the relationship between the two in the play, and considering Le Ying's living conditions at that time, she just broke up, left home again, and worked a very hard job. When people are faced with difficulties, many people will unconsciously think that love can become the last straw. It's like having a partner who forms a kind of community in life with him, and can beat the levels that are difficult to beat alone. However, as the story develops, the element of love has long been abandoned, because people can't save themselves by love alone.
The relationship between this group of characters is not simple, and there are many subtleties that are difficult to express in words. The method adopted by Jia Ling is not simply relying on lines to advance, but echoing the audio-visual language. When Le Ying first saw Haokun, she was through a layer of windows. What she saw through the glass was a person who was practicing hard, and in fact, she hoped to hide her true self in the deepest part through the fog of layers of self-knowledge.
But in contrast, the boxer inside looked at the window, and in the reflection he could only see his own face. Although his life was not going well, he indulged in a kind of narcissism that he never met. Through the difference in the physical mapping of two sides of one window, the direction of the relationship between the two people has been predicted. They have different paths to take, and there is also this floor of windows separated by them. It was Haokun's turn to pass by the boxing gym and see Le Ying practicing boxing through the window. This time he saw her in the most essence, but she only punched again and again in her eyes, and she had no distractions. But I think what really echoes the mirror of the first time she passed by the boxing gym was when she came on the ring at the end of the boxing match, looking at her past self in the mirror along the road.
At this time, she saw her true self. There is no distinction between the past and the present tense here, as she said in an interview, once she looked at herself in the mirror after taking a shower and gave herself a thumbs up. She immediately wondered, is this thumbs up for her past self, or for her current self? The answer is, both of them are worth it.
Jia Ling, who devoted herself to the creation of "Hot and Hot", is indeed worthy of a thumbs up for her career brain. In the tidbits at the end of the film, a small incident is recorded, that is, Jia Ling insists on learning to draw in addition to fitness. Because when filming "Hello, Li Huanying", it was difficult for crew colleagues to understand her storyboard. Although not everyone needs to be able to draw storyboards as a director, there are many technical means to replace it. But Jia Ling still wants to improve this skill, and wants to draw a storyboard that can more accurately express her intention in the next movie. The learning results were not too ideal, and Jia Ling self-deprecatingly plucked her paintings. So what? She worked hard, just like Le Ying hit a pro in the ring. None of them failed. I believe that Jia Ling will continue to practice painting.
It's been three years since "Hello, Li Huanying". In the past three years, Jia Ling has been preparing for "Hot and Hot". Faced with the results of her first film, she chose a more difficult challenge this time. If the last movie is the love she gave to her mother. Then "Hot and Hot" is a work in which she learns to get along with her true self, accept herself, and realize herself. By climbing the ladder of her career, she projects her thinking and completes her progress, which is the charm of the career brain. Moving forward with her, in addition to our familiar old girlfriend Zhang Xiaofei, the two have changed from mother and daughter to sisters, as well as the new Yang Zi. New friend Yang Zi played a slightly distant relative, and this role was also a big breakthrough for Yang Zi. Moreover, in the third movie that Jia Ling is creating, Yang Zi's position has been reserved. I look forward to working hard and moving forward together.
Jia Ling is not only realizing her dreams, but also creating a stage for actresses of different ages to display their abilities.
Finally, insert a piece of news that I saw yesterday, which is quite surprising. "Hot and Hot" has been bought by Sony Pictures for global distribution, which means that audiences around the world have the opportunity to see Jia Ling's struggle. Sony's move is extraordinary. Considering that Sony has not released a domestic film internationally for almost nine years, it shows that they believe that this film can transcend cultural barriers and move audiences from different backgrounds. Moreover, Sony Pictures did not waste too much time playing games and making decisions, but quickly made a decision after watching the internal test film. There are not many Chinese directors who can go international, and I am glad to see Jia Ling become one of them. In fact, this is not the first time Jia Ling has entered the international vision, we all remember that "Hello, Li Huanying" was purchased by Sony Pictures for the remake rights, and there will be a Hollywood version.
Speaking of Jia Ling, we have witnessed the director's technique, her continuous learning, and her exploration of the story, she is constantly improving. Therefore, it seems that the vast majority of people, when they mention Jia Ling's creation, will mention one word - sincerity. Sincerity is more than just an attitude to work. Rather, it is the source of her vitality, which has become part of the film itself. From personal family emotions to year-long physical penance, she put it into the movie without reservation. She uses a personal and immersive approach to her creations, which are sincere and moving, fully demonstrating the tenacity and strength behind gentleness. She loves herself with movies, and movies reciprocate with love. **10,000 Fans Incentive Plan