In a movie that makes people emotionally high and difficult to hold onto, ** shows how Jia Ling reinvents her self-image through**. Since this movie began to promote Jia Ling's ** experience, I have vaguely felt some not very positive omens, and the first half of the film did make me feel great discomfort.
First of all, what is unpleasant is the rendering of inherent biases and vulgar jokes. For example, the TV station where the character played by Yang Zi is located, the job she is looking for Jia Ling is to take photos with tourists and pretend to be Buddha statues, and Jia Ling's mother's comment after seeing ** is a straightforward expression like "your sister wears one", which equates "fat" with failure, incompetence, and physical and personality humiliation. For example, the movie suggests that the whole purpose of women's fitness is simply to "have more contact" with a muscle trainer. Not to mention other vulgar jokes, such as the embarrassing scene where Jia Ling accidentally encounters Lei Jiayin urinating on the street is capitalized and close-up, as well as psychologists and relationship experts who attack each other on a variety show (the former couple's entanglement has nothing to do with the subject matter).
The second is the lack of appeal in the story. My mother, a 60-year-old rural man, gave a 5 out of 10 rating after reading it. When asked why the rating is so low, her answer is: the story is bland and unappealing. Even an old man in the countryside can feel the superficiality of the characterization and the lack of appeal of the story. Of course, some of the jokes designed in the movie can indeed cause her to laugh, Jia Ling's ** process also amazed her, and the highlight moment of Jia Ling's participation in the boxing match also moved her to tears. However, the whole story still fails to touch the deeper emotions.
The most fundamental problem is that the core connotation of the film has been weakened. As an adaptation, the film's biggest localized change to the original is its "vulgarization" treatment. I don't know if it's because Jia Ling is worried that the audience will be incomprehensible and deliberately caters to the public's tastes, or because she lacks the ability to express more complex emotions.
The film reduces personal frustration to external pressure, portraying Jia Ling's counterattack as a confrontation against an intuitive "enemy" - an overly obese appearance, a pandering personality, an exaggerated and acerbic "villain" mother and sister, a cousin who will manipulate humanity just after graduation, the betrayal of her best friend and lover, and a series of plots such as deception because of love, all of which together drive Jia Ling's protagonist into a desperate situation and force her to make up her mind to participate in boxing matches.
For Jia Ling's acting skills, the movie also poses a challenge. It made me realize that it is not easy to portray a culture of "mourning". Although Jia Ling tried to change the tone of her speech throughout the whole process, the effect was inferior and seemed a little deliberate. Even if her weight increases to 200 pounds, Jia Ling is still the cute girl full of collagen, even if she walks on the street while eating marshmallows, she is still a leisurely cuteness, and she does not have that state of extreme frustration.
After telling these foreshadowings, the second half of the movie finally ushered in a turning point, Jia Ling began to exercise and practice boxing, and her emotions were also high. It's also a testament to the strength of sports-themed films, which translate inner struggles into action, and stimulate the adrenaline of the audience through running, boxing, pull-ups and increasing weight training. The most eye-catching thing is that Jia Ling's stunning appearance when she lost weight to just over 100 pounds successfully aroused the audience's amazement.
However, once the technique of using ** as a promotional selling point is overused, it may backfire and even damage the reputation of the film. Some viewers sarcastically said on Douban: "If the title is changed to "Jia Ling**", it may be more attractive. Jia Ling also expressed her wish in the live broadcast: "I hope everyone pays attention to loving themselves." ”