Whether you are a supporter of "Love Myth" or not, you can't deny that it adds a little vitality to the long-dormant domestic movies at the end of the year and the beginning of the year.
More importantly, it uses the story between a man and three women to regain the long-lost voice in film and television works for the majority of women.
Let everyone spy on middle-aged love at the same time, see the different charm of older women.
Whether it's "I just made a mistake that all men in the world would make" to justify her cheating behavior;
Or the freewheeling, game world, after sleeping with a man, want to use twenty thousand dollars to solve the worries of Gloria;
Or in the morning of a one-night stand, Miss Li, who took advantage of the fact that the man who was cooking was not prepared, quickly fled the scene with high heels, let the woman take the initiative in love.
Under their background, the male protagonist Lao Bai, who is arbitrarily "manipulated" by women, seems to be somewhat cowardly and screwed.
But to say that the most independent and free female character in this film must be Miss Li.
After all, when three women are at the dinner table, they can't argue about whose life is more complete.
Miss Li, played by Ma Yili, is the only woman who is moving towards a complete life and bravely moving forward.
After meeting Charlene in "Struggle" at the age of thirty, meeting Shangzijun in "The First Half of My Life" at the age of forty, Ma Yili collided with Miss Li in "Love Myth" at the age of 45.
If it is said that crazy Charlene represents Ma Yili's youthful years of flamboyant personality, zijun who first deceives herself and then introspects herself, corresponding to her married life.
Then, the independent, confident, free and distant Miss Li reflects her current attitude towards life.
Miss Li is an advertising producer, financially independent, well-dressed, over forty years old, still charming, at first glance, a proper middle-aged strong woman.
It is no wonder that many men, including Lao Bai, will be generous to her.
Of course, these are just a glance.
Miss Li, who is incomparably beautiful on the surface, also has bitterness that is difficult to show.
After a failed marriage with an English man, she dragged her family with her daughter and committed herself to an "old and broken child" with her mother.
Stepping on the high heels with an average price of 10,000 outside, domineering, she will still be counted down by her broken mother because of a broken light bulb and a bowl of overnight meals.
Even so, Miss Li still maintains a free personality and an independent personality.
She suffered from her mother's nagging, and the man's flattery followed, and the dignity and unbearable grievances that ordinary people valued did not go to her heart.
It is precisely with this hidden freedom in the depths of her heart that she can arm herself with a dazzling posture in her unhappy marriage.
Miss Li also yearns for love, but she is not attached to men, and she has not fantasized about using men's help to get rid of the status quo or jump up class.
That's why, she would take the initiative and offer to spend the night at a man's house late at night after watching the play, but secretly run away when the man wanted to use the charm of the family cook to keep her.
That's why she can accept men helping to fix shoes and pick up children, but she can't accept houses gifted by men.
In Miss Li's mouth, she is a woman who has walked smoothly on the downhill road, and when she took the college entrance examination, she first missed Tongji University, and then lost contact with New York University.
It was hard to meet love, and the man left only one daughter and left her.
After this, her reluctance was still there, and her innocence was completely gone.
Therefore, when Bei Bei tried everything to return to her husband, and when Gloria enjoyed the marital property to the fullest, Miss Li was still as independent as possible from men.
Men to her are nothing more than the desires of "men and women who eat and drink". When desire comes, there is a night of joy, and when desire goes, go their separate ways.
Compared with the worldly love that takes the car, the house, the ticket and the children into account, Miss Li's loyalty to her emotional attitude is also a pure choice.
When many viewers watch "Love Myth", they will involuntarily associate Miss Li in the film with the real Ma Yili.
After all, they are the same outside the play: a native of Shanghai, a single mother divorced in middle age, smart and scheming, sophisticated but not marketable.
But in fact, the two of them are similar and more different.
How Miss Lee's first half was, we don't know.
But from her mother's attitude, her sometimes melancholy eyes, the cigarettes she smoked and drank late at night by the window, the audience can still infer that she has not had a childhood that can heal her life, let alone two parents who accompany her.
Just because of this, Miss Li's luck index is obviously not as high as Ma Yili.
In the first half of Ma Yili's life, we have heard a little and seen it.
The happy childhood given to her by her parents, she emotionally recalled in "The Reader".
Until now, many viewers remember sewing in the newspaper every day to find match information for her, transporting her to and from class, and preferring to spend more than half a month's salary to take her to KFC's father.
I remember even more the mother who knitted sweaters for her and taught her to be tolerant and kind.
Ma Yili herself has said that the love of her parents is the gift of life, and she has received all these gifts from Heaven.
These happy childhoods, which we have never seen but have heard, healed her for the rest of her life.
The first half of Ma Yili's life that we have seen, in addition to her screen career, is her chicken flying dog jumping emotional life.
Whether it is the relationship with Guan Hu for four years, destroyed by his girlfriend Liang Jing, or the five-year-long marriage with the article, he was inserted by Xiao San Yao Di.
Ma Yili was not in front of the public, showing a sad image of half a grudge.
When asked why she broke up with Guan Hu, she said that the past is over, and it is also a matter of opinion, for those who have loved, there is no need to hurt each other.
When betrayed by the article, she pointed to the end and said: Do it and cherish it. When she divorced the article, she said with great wishes: In the future, everyone will rejoice.
When in love with all heart, when not in love, decent separation, Ma Yili's attitude towards feelings, obedience to the heart and crisp and clean.
After that, Ma Yili's life and Miss Li's life tended to be consistent.
They have the same independent personality, free personality, even if it is the alienation of interpersonal relationships, it is surprisingly similar.
No wonder Ma Yili, when recalling the shooting state, will say that he acted effortlessly.
But this does not mean that Miss Li is Ma Yili.
Because, compared with Miss Li's casual entrustment of her daughter to a man she did not know well, Ma Yili had to sacrifice her own time to balance her career and family perfectly.
She is carefully building a happy childhood time for her two daughters, which will be their hard armor against the cruelty of life.
Ma Yili is one of the few actors in the entertainment industry who is not expelled by fame and fortune to choose a script. She has only one principle for taking over: she likes the role.
Therefore, no matter what age she takes the role, she will compare her current self, and then use the right way possible to perform the way women should live.
In her opinion, she plays a role, but conveys a value.
Audiences who know her a little bit can find that she has used the characters in the play from an early age to convey ideas to everyone.
The enthusiasm of Charlene in "Struggle", the persistence of Hao Jinni in "Life in Two Cities", the independence of Pan Yun in "Beishang Guang does not believe in tears", the rise of Zijun in "The First Half of My Life", the sobriety of Miss Li in "Love Myth"...
Outside the play, Ma Yili and the characters in the play grew up together. However, the fate of the character is in the hands of the screenwriter, and her life is only subject to her own arrangements.
She once said in the show: When she was 20 years old, she did not look at a role like Luo Zijun, nor would she play such a role. The reason why I can act when I am 40 years old is because I can see the world from Luo Zijun's point of view.
She would say this not because her principles of taking on the role had changed, but because after years of tempering, her own mentality had changed.
Ma Yili is still independent, confident, professional, and also begins to be tolerant, gentle and peaceful.
For so many years, career, love and family have taken turns to play, which has long allowed her to achieve secondary growth.
She has had an economic income since junior high school, but after marriage, in order to take care of the face of the article, she will still be a small woman who collects her husband's salary.
She once said that she could not accept a cheating marriage, but she still calmly coped when the article made mistakes.
There are even other stories to metaphorically describe the mistakes of the article, which can be forgiven.
Because, compared with the life that once only needed to be responsible for himself, after having a family and children, Ma Yili's identity has long changed from self, daughter and actor to woman, mother and pillar.
She needs to weigh it up to ensure that the ship at her helm does not risk sinking after deviating from the course.
Perhaps, it is precisely her own experience that makes her understand another life of the people in the play.
And the life of the people in the play also invisibly gave Ma Yili the strength to rise. After the marriage went wrong, it was the improvement in her career that made her regain her self-confidence.
Whether it is the Best Actress of the Huading Award won by "Beishang Guangdong Don't Believe in Tears" or the Best Actress of Magnolia won by "The First Half of My Life", it is the echo of her life by her career.
With these "honors", Ma Yili's second half of life seems to have also received the script of counterattack.
Woolf said that great souls are hermaphrodites.
Ma Yili, who often shows her neat short hair and casual makeup, must have some masculinity on her body, which makes her a little more tough in the face of the storms of life.
But it is undeniable that the most charming thing about her is the charm of middle-aged women.
Independent and free masculinity, coupled with tough and wise feminine qualities, makes this middle-aged woman who has experienced the wind and frost, silent, can also shine.
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【| Ronan】
【Edited by | Xixi】