In the 21st century, women are already half the sky.
When you see a struggling woman, you will always be full of blood.
When a woman bottoms out, that means she's going to bounce back and be free.
This movie is for you who are brave.
"Struggling Joey", a female entrepreneurial theme, based on Joey's real experience.
An American dream full of dark sides, douban score of 6.7 points, although not high, but it is indeed worth a look.
Directed by: David M. O. Russell
He is very good at making movies of family trivialities, such as "The Fighter", "The Happiness Line Behind the Dark Clouds", "American Deception", and "Gossip Girl".
Female Number One: "Big Cousin" Jennifer Lawrence
In the movie, she is still pleasing to the eye, and the details are very good. Although she is a new generation of actors, we have known her for a long time, and I know her because of "The Happiness Line Behind the Dark Clouds", when she won the Oscar for Best Actress with this movie, and the scenes are scheduled until 2024.
Male Number One: Robert De Niro
Oscar-winning film emperor, has created too many classic characters, including Vito Corleone in "The Godfather 2", Noodles in "Once Upon a Time in America", Murray in "Joker", Frank Sheran in "The Irishman", old Paiter in "The Happy Line Behind the Clouds" and so on.
This movie once again gathers a director + three stars of "The Happiness Line Behind the Dark Clouds", what is the story?
Joey (Jennifer Lawrence) was born into an unhappy family, his father (Robert De Niro) was an alcoholic for many years, his mother was addicted to soap operas, and Joey grew up in the quarrels of his parents.
In high school, Joey invented a dog collar that could both remove fleas and shine, an innovation that could have made her rich overnight.
But at that time, my mother only knew how to watch soap operas, and she didn't think that Joey's little invention was anything remarkable, and did not apply for a patent for Joey, resulting in the patent of the Magic Dog Collar being seized by another company.
After graduation, Joey's parents divorced, life was terrible, in order to support the whole family, only desperately worked to earn money.
Through the introduction of friends, Joey met her boyfriend who made music, the two got along well, decided to get married, but at the wedding, the father drank too much wine and talked nonsense at the wine table, which made Joey think of some of her own painful memories, she could not control her emotions, and cried to complete the wedding.
Soon after marriage, the two gave birth to two children, Joey lived the life of a housewife, but the husband was addicted to music all day, completely ignoring the trivialities of the family, and even squandered all his savings for the music dream, and he was unable to make money on his own, dragging Joey and the children into the abyss again and again, Joey was fed up with such a life, and finally she proposed a divorce to her husband.
But after the divorce, the ex-husband had nowhere to go, and Joey was soft-hearted for a while, so he agreed to let the ex-husband live in the basement of his house.
One day, his father, who had been divorced from his mother for many years, was kicked out of the house by his new girlfriend, and his father had nowhere to go but to find Joey, because there was no extra room in the house, and Joey had to let his father live in the basement with his ex-husband.
But the ex-husband and his father did not get along well, which made Joey exhausted, and had to free his hands to take care of the contradictions between the two, drawing a three-eight line for them not to disturb each other.
The soap opera-addicted mother, the father who picks flowers and weeds everywhere, the unrealistic ex-husband, Joey is exhausted and has to take care of them, and the pressure Joey bears in this family can be imagined.
One night, Joey dreamed that everyone came to pay tribute to his childhood self, and after being woken up by his mother, Joey realized how bad his life had been in the past thirty years, and gave up his dream because of the pressure of life.
For thirty years, she had never lived for herself.
One day, the father met a rich woman through the marriage intermediary, and the rich woman invited their whole family to be a guest on her cruise ship, the whole family was very excited, and the father was even more proud.
Halfway through the banquet, due to the bumpy waves, the wine glass containing red wine was broken on the deck, and Joey was usually responsible for cleaning up the garbage at home, and now it was no exception, when she wrung out the mop with her hands, the mop full of glass slag caused Joey's hands to be covered with blood.
Looking at his hands that were still dripping blood, Joey suddenly realized that why not invent a "magic mop" that could be wrung out by himself, so that he would not be scratched by the glass, and could also greatly reduce the mopping time of housewives.
With this thought flashing by, Joey rushed into her daughter's room, grabbed a paintbrush, and drew all the "magic mops" in her mind.
At this moment, she knew that the once creative Joey was back, and her dream never stopped, just because life forced it to pause.
The drawings were drawn, Joey immediately found the employees of his father's garage, borrowed parts and successfully created the first mop, and the day he got the new mop, Joey felt unprecedentedly happy.
After many years, I finally have the sense of accomplishment of childhood, this mop is very convenient, has a longer service life, and can be wrung out without hand contact, which can help a lot for housewives.
In order to attract investment in mass production, so for twenty years, Joey made the only request to his unreliable father, coaxing the rich woman to invest in himself.
After seeing Joey's invention, the rich woman was very interested in this "magic mop", and after asking Joey a series of questions, the rich woman decided to pay for the investment.
But Joey's sister, because of jealousy, kept making things difficult for Joey, each making things difficult and questioning, just to hit Joey's confidence, and Joey didn't want to bother with her.
What I don't know is that this sister will bring a huge crisis to Joey in the future, just as the so-called "better to offend the gentleman than to offend the villain".
After getting the investment, Joey put all the money into mop production, and she worked with one of the lowest-priced parts manufacturers to hire a bunch of cheap part-time workers and teach them the steps to assemble the mop.
But the partner suddenly called over, saying that in the production of parts because of the production of molds, wasted a lot of raw materials, asked Joey to bear this cost, if you pay this bill, it is tantamount to declaring bankruptcy for Joey,
Joey immediately rejected the other party on the grounds that he did not agree in advance, but he did not expect that this would lay hidden dangers for the future.
After the first batch of mops were made, how to sell became Joey's problem, Joey, who had no market experience, did not know anything about sales channels, she ran all over various department stores to sell her mops, but was rejected by the merchants one by one.
They told Joey that no one wants to buy your $25 high-tech mop for five years, and people prefer to buy a $5 mop and then change it once a year.
No way Joey had to take a mop to sell in the parking lot, in order to enhance the sales effect, Joey found a friend to sing a double reed, self-directed self-acting opportunity to sell, and finally attracted the attention of passers-by,
But before Joey could sell a few mops, the city management arrived unexpectedly, without saying a word, forcibly confiscated all of Joey's mops, and Joey had to drive away disappointed.
This scene was seen by Joey's ex-husband, who suggested that Joey sell in a different way, and he would introduce Joey to the head of the TV shopping program.
At first, the people on the evaluation team were not interested in Joey's mop, but when she showed the program director the power of the mop, the supervisor decided to give Joey a chance, handed the mop to the gold medal sales responsible for the display, and let Joey prepare fifty thousand pieces of inventory, Joey was ecstatic and excited to run home to inform the family.
On the day of the TV show, the whole family gathered in front of the TV, excitedly waiting for the mop to sell, but the gold medal sales could not see Joey's mop, clumsily selling the mop on the stage, and even did not know the correct use of the mop, tinkered for half a day, and failed to open the mop smoothly.
After a series of publicity, no one was interested in the "magic mop", and finally a mop was not sold.
The whole family was disappointed, but Joey did not give up, he found the head of the TV shopping program, asked the other party to let her personally go on stage to sell her mop, the person in charge and Joey confronted for a long time, and finally nodded in agreement,
On the day of the show's recording, the makeup artist designed the most fashionable hairstyle for Joey and changed into a beautiful costume, but Joey eventually changed back to the simplest clothes he usually wears when doing housework, which is his own style.
Joey, who came on stage for the first time, looked at the hundreds of spectators under the stage, feeling a little nervous, stumbling and carrying the narration, seeing that the sales were going to be messed up.
At the critical moment, Joey's girlfriend called to help, heard the voice of the girlfriend, Joey instantly calmed down, the two sang a harmony in front of the national audience through the phone, and began to show the use of "magic mop".
With Joey's continuous sales, the order volume soared to 50,000 pieces, the person in charge saw the business opportunity, intends to continue to cooperate with Joey, and sure enough, the second sales of the order volume exceeded 100,000 pieces, Joey could not believe her eyes, she finally completed her dream.
The whole family is immersed in the joy of success and is excitedly planning a celebration party, but Joey suddenly receives a call from the manufacturer, who wants to raise the cost price, and the new price is equivalent to declaring bankruptcy for Joey.
Faced with the sudden bad news, Joey took a deep breath and flew to California that night to negotiate with the manufacturer himself.
During the negotiation, Joey stumbles inside the factory, where she discovers a conspiracy by the manufacturer, who wants to force Joey to give up the mop and take the patent for herself by raising the price.
Joey immediately contacted the lawyer, who told her that her sister had secretly paid the manufacturer's losses, so now all the initiative was in the hands of the supplier.
Joey fell into despair, she reluctantly signed the bankruptcy agreement, she was not willing to let the dream end like this, unwilling to let her former self down.
At night she locked herself in her room and spent the night checking vendors' documents, finally allowing Joey to discover a legal loophole for a manufacturer, as well as a manufacturer's illegal conduct.
The next day, Joey came to the manufacturer's boss's apartment, in front of the boss she pointed out the manufacturer's various illegal acts one by one, scared the boss had nothing to say, saw that the matter was exposed, the boss had to bow his head and beg for peace, he no longer dared to underestimate the woman in front of him,
The boss promised to return all the mop molds to Joey and refund the 50,000 compensation fees paid by her sister before, Joey let the boss go, this long tug-of-war, finally Joey won a comprehensive victory, Joey is happy for his success again.
Later, Joey applied for a more lucrative patent, and the family moved into a larger house.
In the future, Joey will encounter greater challenges, but after the tempering of life, she will not be afraid of any difficulties, she will apply for more patents, and rely on these patents to become the most famous female entrepreneur in American history.
"Struggling Joey" is a true story adaptation of the film, the real-life Joey, in 1990 invented the "magic mop", and personally on the TV shopping platform to sell, the result of the sales are amazing, since then embarked on the road to success.
The rhythm of "Struggling Joey" is different from the previous chicken blood inspirational movies, it looks plain and bland, but it shows Joey's character just right, Joey was born tragic, unladylike, and has been tired of balancing the relationship between father, husband and mother, but Joey has never complained.
Joey was restrained throughout, rarely shouting, but every sentence carried weight. Just like this movie, the unhurried pace is full of positive energy.
The eldest cousin showed us with her superb acting skills,
How desperate and helpless a housewife who achieves nothing in middle age is.
Thinking of this sleepless night, the next day I began a plan to change the status quo.
Life is like this, when you feel trapped,
Think about the dreams you once had,
Once you recognize your inner desire,
Summon up the courage to jump out of the mire in front of you.
Bold to pursue dreams,
Your life may change dramatically.
Maybe we have to always remember what we're best at.
If not, go and cultivate a skill, and the key moment may save you!
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