I haven't watched Director Jia's new film "Hot and Hot", I bought a ticket for the afternoon, and if I want to talk after watching it, I will write a film review.
At present, I see that the evaluation is polarized, some people think that the overall is very good, some people think that the rhythm is particularly pulled, some people can empathize with the difficult step of a certain type of girl to get out of their own predicament, which has social significance, and some people think that it is just a "Jia Ling weight loss story", which purely sells privacy.
However, now Douban has opened scores, and nearly 70,000 people have scored 7.9 points, which is quite impressive.
Sometimes marketing does backfire on the movie, bringing box office and causing a word-of-mouth avalanche.
For this movie, I think it shouldn't be too bad to watch it with a normal heart. After all, the Chinese New Year stalls are similar to the Spring Festival Gala, and to take care of all audiences, what can be discussed is actually very limited. Happy, inspirational, and elegant and vulgar appreciation is basically the ultimate of Chinese New Year films.
Today, I will mainly talk about Jia Ling, this girl surprised and delighted me so much, and she really practiced a slogan: We women must get what they want.
The news that Jia Ling successfully lost 100 pounds was on the hot search for several days, some people guessed that it was special effects, some people guessed that it was hype, and some people guessed that Jia Ling, who lost weight, was played by Zhang Xiaofei. Yesterday, the mystery was finally revealed, Jia Ling talked about "Hot and Hot" live, and I didn't recognize it at first glance.
The slimmed down Jia Ling looks like Guo Keyu from some angles, and some angles look like a nursery.
The biggest change was that there was something sharp in her eyes. Sharp and serious, it is almost impossible to see Jia Ling, a comedian in the past, or even if there is, no one cares, because humor and humor are the anesthetic of life, which can dissipate all serious thinking.
Today's Jia Ling is no longer "I want to laugh when I see you", she has grown teeth and an aura that is not easy for women to mess with, which makes many viewers uncomfortable.
On the live barrage, some people said that Jia Ling was unhappy, some people said that she had changed her "dress", and some people said that she was haggard and featureless. I believe that these negative comments are also the capital of comedian Jia Ling who has slowly let go of her overweight in the past ten years, and now she has finally made up her mind to abandon the past and become a new version of herself, and the audience needs to slowly adapt to it.
After all, everyone is growing, and really no one is obligated to stay yesterday forever for the sake of your habits.
The bitterness of obesity is best known only to the fat man himself.
On the stage, Jia Ling, who has been dressed up and is likely to wear a life-threatening corset, is good-looking, because she is 166cm tall and has a good foundation.
However, at the same time, Jia Ling was photographed by passers-by, and it was a little difficult to walk.
The two images were taken in July and October 2022, respectively.
And "Hot and Hot" was launched in October, and it is said that Jia Ling gained 40 pounds for the role. However, Jia Ling herself said that every fat person will have a sense of ritual before making up his mind to lose weight, that is, to eat enough of everything he wants to eat, and let himself get fat again in the end, this sense of ritual often leads to losing more and more weight.
Filming "Hot and Hot", Jia Ling, who has repeatedly lost on the road to weight loss, can be regarded as signing a bet with herself, if she can't lose weight or use special effects to lose weight, she will not be able to support the box office of the movie and escape the eyes of the audience.
Now Jia Ling's videos of losing weight have been officially released one after another. She shares a fitness trainer with Yuan Hong, but she exercises three times as much as Yuan Hong. You can rely on diet pills to lose weight, but you can really only rely on hard work to build muscles, especially for girls, it is much more difficult to grow muscles than boys.
Jia Ling is a ruthless person, everyone who loves himself must be ruthless to himself first.
▲ If there is no professional guidance, girls with large weight are not suitable for running as soon as they come up, otherwise it is not necessary for people to be thin or not, and the probability of knee waste is relatively large
Jia Ling's ruthlessness is also ruthless in her loose skin after losing weight. Many viewers saw this photo and said that although Jia Ling was thin, she was also old.
In fact, Jia Ling is 42 years old, and she used to rely on fat to support the collagen on her face, which made her look particularly naïve.
But a woman's beauty is not only "childish" and "small", if you want to say that Jia Ling is not as good-looking as when she is fat, I am not convinced.
It's not that people only look good if they're thin, and Jia Ling didn't lose enough weight to the perverted 85 pounds that Yu Zheng requested. With a height of 166cm, about 120 pounds is a healthy figure, why don't we allow a female comedian to pursue a healthy figure, instead of asking people to "get fat and festive", she is not a New Year's doll.
Whether she is making fame or making money, Jia Ling doesn't need to lose weight, she only needs to be on a few more variety shows to be able to gain fame and fortune comfortably.
As for movies, there is a "Hello, Li Huanying", which ranks second at the box office in Chinese film history, is enough, and no number of directors who have made movies for a lifetime can surpass Jia Ling's one.
There is only one reason why Jia Ling lost weight, that is, she wanted this change too much, and decided to make all the audience overseers.
When it comes to myself after losing weight, Jia Ling's sentence "I can stilt my legs" really made me teary-eyed. There must be people who say, "But the stilted legs are not healthy", and in fact this is not an argument about truth, but about the recognition of freedom. When people lose weight, it means that they have more freedom, freedom of dress, freedom of movement, freedom of love, and so on.
It's not that the world isn't friendly to fat people, it's that the world has never been fair. It bullies the strong and the weak, especially women need to have enough energy to love themselves in order to resist malice from all sides.
Becoming the ideal self, or subverting the past life, is, in a sense, a blood transfusion to an increasingly pale life. In this life, whether it is losing weight, traveling, changing jobs, getting married, or divorced, every change in one's determination is not because of not loving, but because of too much love - and finally deciding to love oneself, can one really have the power to change.
Jia Ling said: "If I can decide for myself, it is that I want to love myself in the future, this is the hot search I want to be on the most." ”
I especially understand her point, not that she is not fat, but that it is better to lose weight, not to dislike her chubby self in the past, but to want to live a thin life again.
I watched many people in my circle of friends swiping the last easter egg of the movie. Record Jia Ling's change from 203.6 pounds in 2022 to 117 pounds when the movie is completed on November 24, 2023.
"It's finally finished!! I got my long hair, I got a big wave, I bought nice clothes!
How happy you want to be in the future, how to come.
You only live once, don't you?"
Although I haven't seen this movie yet, I don't think this is a movie that only talks about weight loss, it is about changing your life, loving yourself, and always remembering the life you only live once, and you have to live it to the fullest.
After watching yesterday's live broadcast, I had two feelings.
First, Jia Ling was not happy.
Although maintaining a fat image, it has a great blessing for Jia Ling's comedian career. Comedians are either fat, ugly or stupid, whether Ma Li or Jia Ling, when they become good-looking, they all face the accusation of "not funny".
The audience's prejudice cannot be completely blamed, just as Chen Peisi's interpretation of comedy: comedians have to put themselves in a lower position than the audience to interpret the role, because "laughter is a momentary sense of superiority".
As a comedian, no one cares about her happiness, whether she can amuse the audience is a big deal, this is Jia Ling's dilemma.
On the one hand, there is the need for work, and on the other hand, the perception of being a living individual, and the two are inherently conflicting. Jia Ling even felt that the only way to lose weight and then come out was to "maybe I would be more comfortable."
With Zhang Xiaofei, the two have all kinds of contrasts.
But not in Jia Ling's comfort zone. She said: "Every time I see her dressed, the thin person is always in a thousand postures, and the fat person is exactly the same. ”
We may think that there should be no worries about being as successful as Jia Ling, or that even if there are troubles, they can compensate for it through fame and fortune. Not really.
In the face of fame and fortune, all beings are not equal, but in the face of troubles, all beings are equal. Everyone has their own ups and downs, and everyone has their own desperate desire to win but can't win.
"Winning is not a victory, if you really work hard, you will win", is Jia Ling's original intention of filming "Hot and Hot".
Even if Jia Ling regains weight or is depressed due to weight loss, I don't think it can be said to be a failure, because hard work is not once and for all, and our efforts can only solve one problem at a time.
Second, Jia Ling uses the sensibility and sincerity that female directors are good at to the extreme, which is worthy of our protection.
When "Hello, Li Huanying" was on the air, I discussed Jia Ling with my friends and felt that her future career as a director would be difficult. Because the starting point is too high, every step is downhill. Moreover, what supports the box office and reputation of "Hello, Li Huanying" is indeed not the quality of the movie itself, but a sincere and sincere universal emotion.
Uncovering Li Huanying's scar is not only Jia Ling's loneliness, but also an irreproducible part of her life experience. Pulling out your heart and lungs to make a movie is, in theory, only one chance for any creator.
This kind of creation is not only a literary and artistic work, but also a director's performance art, which needs to be in the right place at the right time, easy to look at, but difficult to do.
never expected that Jia Ling would be able to show her sincerity for the second time and once again present herself to the audience as a "vivisection".
Not every creator is a genius, and not only a genius can be a creator. Some actors use physiological reactions to act, and some directors use their own pain to create, and enough sincerity can indeed make up for the lack of talent.
Jia Ling's idol Andy Lau is a typical case, and Ang Lee also said that he is not a genius, and can only rely on sincerity and diligence. The real genius is Wong Kar-wai, his technique is sufficient, and he does not need to create so painfully as a heart-to-heart and liver.
However, is it possible that enough sincerity is a talent in itself?
The comments of some netizens strengthened my idea. As a new director from a non-professional background, Jia Ling is humble and smart. She chose to impress everyone with sincerity and use the knife in her own life, although it may not necessarily impress everyone, but for some female audiences, this bravery can indeed affect their lives.