Jia Ling became the world's highest-grossing female director in the 2021 Spring Festival file with "Hello, Li Huanying", and after 3 years, she entered the Spring Festival file again with her second feature film "Hot and Hot".
Can "Hot and Hot" replicate the miracle of "Hello, Li Huanying"? Although it is a different genre and story, "Hot and Hot" retains the characteristics established by Jia Ling in "Hello, Li Huanying": life-oriented narrative, sincere emotional expression, three-dimensional and full character building, and the style characteristics of humor and warmth. "Hot and Hot" is more like a heart-to-heart exchange between Jia Ling and contemporary young people, exploring together how to live meaningfully.
"Lying flat" is not really loving yourself.
At the beginning of the story, the protagonist Le Ying (played by Jia Ling) has been at home for many years, with nothing to do, and after graduating from college and working for a period of time, she chooses to break away from society, close her social circle, and practice what she thinks is the best way to "reconcile" with herself - "lying flat".
The reason why Le Ying "lies flat" is due to both personality reasons - she is not so good at dealing with people, and subjective reasons - she is very good and sincere to the people around her, but she is often hurt. She simply closed herself off and "lay down" to the end.
On the surface, if you take the initiative to cut off social interactions, detach yourself from society, and no longer live a "hot and hot" life, you can avoid social competition and work pressure, and you can avoid being hurt. Le Ying "lay" at home for ten years after graduation, even if it makes her parents worry because of this, and the relationship with her sister Le Dan (played by Zhang Xiaofei) is tense, Le Ying is unmoved.
However, is it really good for yourself to "lie flat"? Apparently not. Here in Le Ying, "lying flat" is already a chronic poison.
From the perspective of ability, Le Ying is unable to acquire new knowledge and skills after "lying flat", which leads to the weakening of personal competitiveness and the difficulty of integrating into society, which in turn further reduces Le Ying's willingness and will to integrate into society, forming a vicious circle.
Le Ying is obviously dissatisfied with her life status, for example, she always has a sad face, because of her lack of confidence and low voice when talking to others, she unconsciously has a people-pleasing personality ...... when facing the person she likesIt's just that as the longer she "lies flat", her self-growth has stagnated for too long, and her enthusiasm for life and sense of accomplishment have disappeared for too long, she doesn't know how to restart, how to look forward to the future, plan for the future, and a program team looking for a job came to the door, and Le Ying didn't want to participate.
The key is not in "****, but in transformation."
When a person chooses to "lie flat", life is not sustainable, and there are always people behind him to carry the weight forward. For Le Ying, she is lazy day after day and has become a burden to her family. This also broke out the conflict between her and her sister Le Dan, who was completely unaccustomed to her sister's life state. After a violent quarrel, Le Ying ran away from home in a fit of rage, and she had to support herself and had to change her living state. Le Ying returned to work after many years as a waitress at a barbecue restaurant, working with each other.
By chance, Le Ying got acquainted with boxing coach Hao Kun (Lei Jiayin) and began to practice boxing. Le Ying's original intention was not to have any love for boxing, she just wanted to have more contact with coaches through boxing.
The purpose of more contact was achieved, but Le Ying once again tasted her previous experience of injury - obviously good to people, but always hurt. She regards Haokun as her lover, but Haokun is unwilling to admit her relationship with her and tells her to "get out"; She gives complete trust to her cousin (played by Yang Zi), who works in the TV station, but unexpectedly suffers from her betrayal and becomes the ...... of the "harlequin" in the TV showShe decided to put her life on the line and "win once" for her life – she wanted to learn boxing, she wanted to stand in the ring, and she wanted to hug each other at the end ......of a fight after a fierce fight
In the process of practicing boxing, before she knew it, Le Ying was already changing. Her weight is declining, and she is getting lighter; At the same time, she vents her frustrations in life and her anger such as injustice and unyielding, and transforms them into purposeful action and gains strength from them. Jia Ling's perseverance is really impressive, and she has successfully lost 100 pounds after a year of hard training. In the movie, the slow-motion contrast in the corridor before she went on the stage is shocking, and it vividly reflects the perseverance, tenacity, and unyielding character of people.
The transformation of body and soul has also transformed into Le Ying's new attitude and hope towards life, and into a high-spirited and unyielding fighting spirit. Ten years on, Le Ying finally "won once" completely and beautifully - what the result of the competition was was secondary, but won social recognition and won long-lost self-esteem.
"Hot and Hot" uses a convincing and delicate narrative to give the audience a glimpse of Le Ying's inner transformation process. Many viewers are concerned that Jia Ling, who plays Le Ying, has successfully lost 100 pounds, but as Jia Ling said, "Hot and Hot" is not a movie about ** or boxing, but a story about how a kind person finds himself and learns to love himself. The core of the movie lies in Le Ying's inner transformation - how she struggled to find herself and how she learned to love herself.
You only live once".
"Lying flat" is not really loving yourself, in order to "win once" tenacious struggle, go all out, perseverance, and perseverance is the real love of yourself.
Because of loving oneself, you first need to be responsible for yourself, and only strivers can gain the ability to be independent and self-reliant, and can truly control the steering wheel of their own lives; To love ourselves, we must strive to realize our self-worth, which requires us to continue to struggle, constantly improve ourselves, and strive for self-improvement, in order to give full play to the maximum value of the individual and realize the unity of self-identity and social identity; Loving ourselves is also inseparable from self-acceptance, as long as we do our best, even if the result is not successful, we can win or lose like Le Ying, smile and have an open heart.
"Hot and Hot" is a movie with a profound direction of life, it is festive, sincere and deep. For young people who "lie flat" like Le Ying before, the appearance of "Hot and Hot" is not so much their first drink, but rather the most gentle exhortation and encouragement, reminding them that "you only live once", "lying flat" is not responsible for themselves, nor is it a way to love yourself.
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