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After watching Jia Jingwen's performance in "Riding the Wind 2023", I feel a little sorry for this childlike goddess.
Born in 1974, she has been debuting for 33 years and is 49 years old this year.
But as soon as she stood there, her appearance was still very good at fighting.
You must know that Alyssa Chia, but in the first Tiger Pounce Sports Pedestrian Street section of the goddess evaluation, after many rounds of voting, finally with the highest number of votes, she beat Gao Yuanyuan, Lin Zhiling, Song Huiqiao, Zhu Yin and other national goddesses, stood out and became the "Tiger Pounce Goddess".
Even if many years have passed, she once again comes to us with a slim skirt and sings a lyrical song, we will still sigh that beautiful women really do not age.
As we all know, Sister Lang is a variety show based on singing and dancing, and all 30+ female friends show PK round by round on this stage, and finally through voting, determine the contestants of the group.
The sisters are all people who have worked hard in the entertainment industry for many years, and it doesn't really matter if they become a group or not, but the longer they stay in the show, the higher the exposure, and through various rounds of competition and combination, they can bring more possibilities to the audience.
Or talent show, or CP effect, or various topics when forming a team every time, and even female stars can cue their past works, people and things, and so on.
Only by saving success to the end can the utility of variety shows be maximized.
Of course, the premise is that you are doing well enough.
Before the start of the show, Jia Jingwen said in an interview that she can't sing, singing like a duck calling, and the five notes are incomplete, so that everyone should not have too high expectations for their first stage.
As a result, as soon as the first stage appeared, Jia Jingwen's singing was quite good, and even a little professional singer's level, so many people complained that this should not be a sound repair.
In any case, film and television actors are a bit of a loss after standing on the stage and singing and dancing with professional singers and dancing singers after many years.
Fortunately, her appearance can be beaten, and everyone's emotional filter is still there.
It's just that after a gong, on the ranking list, Jia Jingwen's results are really a little unsatisfactory.
With a score of 322, she ranked 18th.
This half-up and down results are a bit of a surprise, perhaps, over time, she will bring us more possibilities.
After all, she is an actress who successfully transformed with "Our Distance from Evil"!
The audience's impression of Jia Jingwen before was none other than Zhao Min in Su Youpeng's version of "The Legend of Relying on the Sky and Slaying the Dragon".
Zhao Min's daring to love and hate, resolute and resolute character was interpreted by Jia Jingwen.
That year, Jia Jingwen was only 29 years old. When the Taiwanese drama "Our Distance from Evil" was released, Jia Jingwen was 45 years old, and she was 49 years old among Sister Lang.
In this show, whether it is waiting or the first stage, she wears a flower in her hand.
Only fans familiar with "The Legend of Relying on the Sky and Slaying the Dragon" will know that it is Zhao Min's classic appearance in the play.
Time flies, Jia Jingwen has already made great strides forward, with a new image, to bring us a "Our Distance from Evil" that hits people's hearts
(1) Where is there any "sudden comeback" acting leap, but it is just accumulated little by little
"Our Distance from Evil" is a drama launched in 2019, with a score of 9.4, and then rose all the way to 9.5 points against the sky, and a high score is sometimes not necessarily something, but the review data of this drama is enough to prove that the eyes of the masses are snowy.
160,000 people want to watch it, 150,000 people have watched it, and finally 426,000 people rated 9.5 points, more than 96.1% of the four-star praise, which is a typical good drama with high reputation and high rating.
It was even hailed as the best Chinese-language film of 2019.
What makes a TV series that has not yet been introduced to the mainland gain such high attention?
In addition to the good script, the actors' acting skills also add a lot.
Jia Jingwen's acting skills and temperament in this play are very different from the past.
If Zhao Min mainly relies on her youth and vitality, then Song Qiaoan is Jia Jingwen's deduced through the precipitation of time, the baptism of fate, combined with the failed wealthy marriage, and the experience of bringing children with three children.
When she calmly said the phrase "dare not step into the real world", it instantly hit the audience in front of the screen.
As the deputy editor-in-chief of TV news, Song Qiaoan, her most beloved son, was shot by an extreme teenager in the movie theater and unfortunately died.
Such the pain of losing a child made her personality change greatly.
She thought that the crazy work could make her suffer and forget the fact that her son was no longer there, but she armed herself with a manic way of working, which gradually overwhelmed the colleagues around her.
Seeing Song Qiaoan, many people will remember that the superior in the unit who was secretly labeled as "menopausal female leader", such people, most of them are workaholics with unfortunate marriages, they are short-tempered, they can't scold people at every turn, they don't ask for overtime, and all their subordinates are unbearable.
But as the plot unfolded, Jia Jingwen unconsciously revealed Song Qiaoan's inner vulnerability and grief in marriage and family.
When tears slowly slipped from her eyes to the ends of her hair, Jia Jingwen was like a gear for teardrops, obviously very sad, but with an indescribable beauty.
The memory of losing her son always tortured Song Qiaoan in the dead of night, making her unable to remember and unable to sleep.
Therefore, she can only rely on alcohol every day to paralyze herself to sleep, but the mother who has lost her soul, even her lively and cute daughter dislikes her, and only feels that "all over her body smells of alcohol" and is estranged from each other.
As a mother, the love for her daughter and the pain for her son are constantly intertwined, and she understands that she should not grieve excessively for the dead and cherish her daughter in front of her, but she still can't do it.
The two contradictory emotions stirred each other, making all mothers look at tears.
The pain of losing a loved one and accidentally becoming a workaholic, Jia Jingwen knows it well.
When Jia Jingwen was a child, she was forced to drop out of school because her father's business failed and the company went bankrupt, but her father was also diagnosed with cancer, and she could only rely on drugs to relieve pain every day.
In an interview, she said that one day when the crew was working, she suddenly received an emergency call back to the hospital, and at the request of her father, she pulled out the breathing tube to end his life, all the way to the ECG monitor, making a harsh and continuous "beep" sound.
Under successive blows, she became a well-known "desperate three langs" in the circle, and took over 16 plays in two years.
Filming is not only a means of making money, but also a tool for her to paralyze herself.
In one book she wrote, "Life is really short, and if it is not bitter, it is not called life." ”
Song Qiaoan, played by Jia Jingwen, is not a perfect role, but this does not hinder it, and everyone feels that it is also real.
As a mother, she forgot her daughter's birthday for three consecutive years and devoted herself to work;
As a boss, she is arbitrary, harsh, and dangerous like a time bomb;
As a wife, her marriage is also very problematic, always succeeding in chatting the sky to death, cynicing at every turn;
Such a person is alive, and the role is not perfect, so that the body can feel the pain of losing a loved one and understand her choices later.
(2) Excellent group portraits of characters allow you to think about a social event from different angles
The story revolves around an indiscriminate killing.
Two years ago, a man named Li Xiaoming, armed with a homemade gun, randomly shot innocent audiences in a theater, killing 9 and wounding 21.
The so-called "indiscriminate homicide case" refers to the case in which the suspect and the victim have no grudges, randomly select the target of the crime, and see who killed whom at the crime scene, which is an inhuman act, which leaves countless families with indelible damage and shadows.
However, this drama does not revolve around the incident process, but is spread out from the perspective of several families after the crime, different positions and different participants...
For example, the victim's family is on the verge of being broken because of the death of a child.
A family of prisoners who fled the crowd because their son killed someone.
Legal aid lawyer who defends death row inmates and is reprimanded.
The younger brother fell ill and brought his sister a family with life problems.
It's all unique and thought-provoking.
This is an era when all living beings are sick, and the criminals in the play are more or less mentally ill, and they have made irreversible mistakes.
Ying Sicong suffered from a split personality because of the death of his girlfriend and career bottlenecks, and he cried and said why me?
Probably because you're brave.
Dr. Lin Yijun never wanted children, because he did not want him to come to this cruel world, could not guarantee his healthy and happy growth, did not want his children to be born in an era where all living beings were sick.
Perhaps this is also the reason why young people do not want to have children now: this society is so bad, how can I bear to let my children come to the world and experience "the world is not worth it".
Everyone's life cannot be completely happy, this is a time when all living beings are sick, and for mental illness, their greatest suffering comes from the lack of understanding of society.
Even if they can get out of mental hospitals and prisons, the society still has a strange view of them, still does not understand and forgive them, and everyone is labeled.
Psychiatric people are marginalized, and the vast majority of people are not concerned with "mental illness", but "patients", and they just want to be gently cared for and cared for like patients with high blood pressure and colds.
In addition, news and public opinion also guide the people's thinking to a certain extent, everyone will understand mental illness from the news, if the content of the news is not objective and fair, patients will have difficulty returning to society.
When you look at the psychopaths who have returned to this society with a strange gaze and reject them;
When you label yourself as normal, but label the mentally ill as "dangerous people", how far do you feel you are from evil?
Although there are still many dark sides of the world, the world will become better and better, and time will wash away prejudices...
All beings are sick, but hope is behind the clouds
(3) Never challenge human nature, how far we are from evil
Do you think this is a disaster movie?
Of course not.
Do you think this is a suspense drama?
Of course not.
It's actually an ethical drama.
Wang Xiaoming's family can no longer raise their heads because of their son's murder.
Wang Xiaowen's teacher said, "Don't challenge human nature", don't think that the world will suddenly understand, the social harm suffered by the victim's family, compared to their family, there are more than a dozen victims' family pain can not be comforted, the resentment of the victim and the masses, can not be calmed, will naturally transfer to the suspect's relatives.
In Wang Xiaoming's case, the media's public opinion was aimed at attacking his family, making them atone for his crimes, apologizing to the victim's family, and one-sided public opinion made the suspect's family unable to live normally for a while.
Wang Xiaowen roared and said to Song Qiaoan: "The audience only has a seven-year-old IQ, you can label others casually, you also kill people invisibly!" My brother killed a lot of people, but I and my family don't have the right to live? ”
Wang Xiaoming's mother said: There is no father and mother in the whole world, and it will take twenty years to raise a murderer.
Wang Xiaoming's parents also lost their son, and they deeply blamed themselves for educating a murderer, but they knew that they were not qualified to heal their wounds, to be forgiven and understood by everyone, because they themselves knew that they could not challenge human nature.
Human nature is like this, there will be compassion, but it is all about empathy for the weak, because the weak need comfort, protection, care.
There is also lawyer Wang Xun who has been defending the suspect Li Xiaoming in the play, doesn't he know how hateful Li Xiaoming, who brutally killed nine people, is!
Many people are disgusted by the actions of lawyers, they do not understand, how in this world there can be someone to defend such social scum.
It turned out that his efforts for more than two years were not to get Li Xiaoming out of the death penalty and get rid of guilt, but to try to find answers from him and try to prevent such incidents from happening again.
Although in the end, Li Xiaoming passed the first 50 people and was executed ahead of schedule in the midst of public hatred and public opinion pressure, the court's purpose was achieved and gave the masses a "legal and just" explanation.
Is this matter a great pleasure for the people, or is public opinion supreme?
Meimei (lawyer Wang Xun's wife) was born in a very happy family, there is no lack of love and material, so she never understands why those people do those things, which also represents the incomprehension of the vast majority of people in this society.
They don't understand why people who have suffered unfortunate life experiences do things that hurt society, and this incomprehension turns into fear, anger and lashing out and labeling "bad people."
They have committed unforgivable sins, and they are indeed sinners, but they are not necessarily bad people.
But how can human nature easily forgive your faults, the pace of this society is too fast, so fast that everything only looks at the result and does not look at the source, human nature will only judge from a sentence, from the result, and think what kind of person he is, and has no intention to care about understanding his unfortunate life.
Most people, after going through tribulation, will not be stronger and braver as chicken soup for the soul advocates, and human nature will only go in the opposite direction in the tribulation.
As Maugham said, "Suffering, in most cases, only makes people narrow-minded and bitter." ”
Human nature is extremely complex, there is no pure "good", there is no pure "bad", everyone has a good side and a bad side in their hearts, depending on the surrounding environment, system and people, which side of you is activated.
Human nature doesn't matter whether it's good or bad, everyone is doing what they feel is right.
Everyone is egoistic, but to a different degree.
But some things, really not invisible, means that they do not exist.
Are you one step closer to evil?
How far are we from evil?
Is it out of reach, or is it only one step away.
Have you ever thought that your offensive remarks on the Internet may ruin a person's life?
Have you ever thought that your labeling behavior will make a group never get out of trouble?
Have you ever thought that you blindly follow the guidance of public opinion and lose the motivation to explore the truth?
epilogue
The ending of the TV series is perfect, people with different identities begin to understand each other, and it is difficult to choose between forgiveness and punishment, but sometimes forgiving others is also the salvation of oneself.
Think about how far we are from evil.