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I'm afraid I don't have the pen to write about Jia Ling.
But I couldn't help but ink for her, not because of love, but because of respect.
In a relatively depressed and depressed environment, I suddenly saw such a vigorous vitality erupting from a real and tangible character, dazzling, vivid, and impossible to ignore.
This life force was originally just a lamp that burned on its own. However, under the storm of huge and complex attention and public opinion, it quietly turned into a spring breeze, spreading warmly and powerfully, awakening a certain group of people who are lazy to hibernate, and allowing change to come into being.
Happily, she is a woman. Happily, her energy, regardless of gender.
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At the beginning of 2021, the movie "Hello, Li Huanying" was released, and Jia Ling laughed in an interview that the box office exceeded 3 billion and she was thin like a lightning bolt. When the movie just passed 3 billion, there was no shortage of marketing accounts vying for her to fulfill her promise. Chinese audiences rarely take similar statements about celebrities seriously, and are quick to tolerate them for the sake of forgetting.
At the beginning of 2024, Jia Ling, who has not appeared for a long time, will return to the public eye with the topic of the new movie "Hot and Hot" and "losing 100 pounds". The Jia Ling who joked three years ago may not have been premeditated, but she did throw a handsome boomerang at fate. To the audience, to yourself, an explanation.
100 pounds, this number is incredibly heavy, so that many viewers have no real sense of her transformation, as if looking at a virtual inspirational character, focusing on drama, ignoring the authenticity and inner meaning.
When the movie came out, many viewers took a magnifying glass to explore her figure, eager to find traces of technology. After failing, she began to study her skin condition, appearance changes, and even expression management. There is such a group of people who treat others with themselves, habitually deny what they can't do, nitpick about the beauty they can't get, and even don't hesitate to slander it.
And what about the person who was picked on and slandered? I'm sorry, but she had already walked to the front of the crowd of onlookers, calmly accepting the applause and admiration in the sun.
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It is reassuring that in the casino of fame and fortune, Jia Ling, who is well versed in the rules of entertainment and public orientation, did not choose the most vulgar way to sell her own stories, even if it would make her path easier.
Seeing Jia Ling again, she was wearing neutral and concise clothes, with concise and firm eyes, standing generously on her familiar and unfamiliar stage, accepting the audience's friendly or ill-intentioned scrutiny, no sense of flattery, no cowardice, and what greeted her was frankness and calmness in controlling herself.
She returned with "Hot and Hot", the second work of a rookie director, and completed it with her best efforts. Many people condemned her for crazy marketing of "losing 100 pounds", but I didn't think there was anything wrong with it. It's Jia Ling, and it's also Le Ying (the protagonist in the movie, played by Jia Ling), who is promoting the role of the movie on the one hand, and endorsing the protagonist with her own story on the other. There is no more timeless marketing than the truth.
If she purposefully wore sexy, nude clothes that highlighted her feminine figure to swagger in front of the audience, and a movie that "tells the story" of "fat house and skinny sexy 'goddess' just to capture the heart of a rich and handsome 'male god'", I might open the microphone and ask her if she is misogynistic. Apparently, she didn't.
Jia Ling once emphasized that "Hot and Hot" is a movie about how good people find themselves and love themselves, and has nothing to do with boxing and weight loss. She said in an interview: "Isn't Le Ying in the film getting thinner, don't you think she's getting stronger?
Body and appearance have long been the focus of Jia Ling's attention, and what she pursues has never been thin or sexy, but strong and powerful.
She has proudly moved towards a new life, not a comedian, nor a director, but a "self" full of tension beyond gender.
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In a letter to the audience that Jia Ling spoke out for the first time after disappearing for a year, she wrote: "This year is really hungry and tired, like a lifetime. ”
yes. Like I've lived a lifetime. Many obstacles that she could not overcome in their lifetime were conquered by her in a year. I wouldn't describe her change by a miracle that would have obliterated her efforts, along with the pain behind them.
Different from the daydreamer on paper, she is a real experiential person. Spend a year battling yourself day after day with unimaginable determination, will, and patience, growing a new spirit and flesh in your old body, and leaping lightly into the next level of your life.
It turns out that life can really be lived like this, and someone has tried it for us. Don't just get old, okay?
Jia Ling also sent a gentle invitation to the audience in the letter: "If you see me during the roadshow, can you come on stage and hug me......
How do I think I'm going to respond? Perhaps, standing in the middle of the stage, with a straight posture, equally neither humble nor arrogant, with her right hand clenched into a fist, and hammered twice in her heart, just as she sat bare-chested on a moonlit bed on the night she finished the film, enjoying her spoils of war, greeting each other in a warrior's manner.