, the most "hot" movie in the Spring Festival, appeared today:
"Hot and Spicy".
This morning, Jia Ling posted on Weibo, announcing that the movie she directed and starred in is scheduled to be released on New Year's Day. She also announced that she lost a full 100 pounds for the new movie, and it immediately shot to the top of the hot list.
The movie shines into reality.
is called by countless people the new generation of "great heroine cool novels".
To be honest, sir has been looking forward to this movie since the earliest project was announced. If nothing else, this "Hot" is a remake of a Japanese movie that sir particularly likes, "One Hundred Dollar Love".
Now that remakes have repeatedly failed, can Jia Ling turn the tide?
sir’s biggest worry is that ’s “One Hundred Dollars of Love” is not chicken soup for the soul.
It is shrouded in gloomy, gloomy tones with no future, and is a real loser story.
This goes against the festive atmosphere of the Lunar New Year.
Of course.
This is not the first time that Jia Ling has made the audience cry during the Chinese New Year ("Hello, Li Huanying").
So today, sir decided to take you to review this video.
Take a look at this sad movie, how to heal us with a cry:
Hundred Yuan Love
Hundred Yuan Love
01
Mourning
What will happen to a 32-year-old woman living in Japan if she is fat and poor?
Saito Kazuko (played by Sakura Ando) in "One Hundred Dollar Love" is like this.
The video has a bad taste right from the beginning.
The table was piled with wine bottles, cigarette butts, and food scraps. Her shaking feet had a circle of dead skin around them.
The hair is as messy as straw, and the fat is like a fat pig.
felt gloomy and silent, sitting in a messy room playing video games with his little nephew.
No one hates it?
My sister calls her directly: "Sister useless."
My mother describes her: "It smells like a sewer."
But what about her? It didn't matter, he was still wandering around the house in his oil-stained pajamas.
It’s time to eat and drink.
can be a sloppy "parasite" with peace of mind.
Because this is her logical and self-consistent way of life, when a person's efforts are repeatedly unresponsive, he will take the initiative to reduce or even castrate all needs other than survival.
As big as dreams, as small as self-esteem.
It’s not like she hasn’t struggled.
For example, when I had a quarrel with my sister, she also made a fuss about moving out.
can actually be.
She needs money for housing outside, but she is a pauper without a job. What should she do?
When she saw her mother hand over the money, she took it away without hesitation.
lowered his head, counted the money, and picked up the luggage bag.
walks loosely, like a soft, hollow "dummy".
has another scene that is even more ruthless.
After she had an argument with her sister, she walked out of the door angrily, but within two steps, she fell down and fell on all fours. It was painful to look at her.
But she said nothing.
No sadness, no joy, no reaction, like a piece of wood. Is
really unconscious?
certainly isn't.
She was just trying to hide it.
She went to work at a 100-yen store, working day and night and earning only a meager salary.
once watched the game.
She was touched by a colleague, so she moved her hands away sluggishly without changing her expression.
Don't care?
In the next shot, we see her leaning her body forward a lot, giving her colleagues no chance.
She has self-respect.
No one cares about this self-esteem.
Just like every time she was nagged by the store manager, she would bow her head and smoke silently.
strives to be a transparent person.
This is true in life, and it is also true in love.
Once, her crush asked her to go on a date. She finally cheered up a little, cherished a little longing, and even tried on leopard print underwear at home.
But when she asked him why he asked her out, he said that she seemed to "not refuse".
faces such slights.
She could only smile blankly and respond dully.
then received deeper ridicule and contempt from the other party.
-Angry?
- No, there is no
- That's boring
Look.
Once she has even a little bit of hope in life, the next result will always be inevitable disappointment.
As time went by, she had no choice but to continue lying on the swamp of life, continuing to sink slowly in a low-desire, unconscious manner.
is a waste in the eyes of everyone.
02
pain
Such a state does not seem to be uncommon.
Some time ago, a word became popular on Japanese social media: gashapon.
Gacha is not the kind of game on the street, but refers to the fact that life is just like Gacha. It is determined by your randomly assigned origin. Being born in a good family or being born in a bad family determines your life. .
But now, it’s not just Japan.
When the vast majority of migrant workers have tried their best and are still standing still, with little progress, then living with low desire, low dignity, and low sense of existence, and living as a dispensable and transparent person, is a kind of active escape. .
20-year-olds are naive and 30-year-olds are angry, but people in their 30s have more or less learned to escape.
It manifests itself in a polite rejection, a calm collapse.
But reality is often worse than imagined.
Soon, Ichiko Saito, who had hit rock bottom, received a severe blow.
There is such a scene in "One Hundred Dollar Love".
Yizi was in the boxing ring, protecting his face with both arms. He was beaten unilaterally by his opponent with punch after punch. He received an unknown number of punches. He fell down, rolled his eyes, and the corners of his mouth were bleeding.
The pain awakened her memory, and scenes from the past flashed before her eyes.
In fact, she had received a lot of punches before she even stood in the boxing ring.
She has not forgotten the pain.
The first punch came from sister Ersanzi (played by Hayori).
The divorced sister brought her son home.
During the day and night, she ran the lunch business for her family, and she was sweating profusely from the fried chicken steak. After taking a short rest, she would clean up her son's troubles.
On the other hand, the boy on the other side can still eat and open his mouth when he wakes up. At the age of 32, he still needs his mother to coax him to have his teeth treated.
My sister couldn't help but make sarcastic remarks.
Most likely you are looking at your parents’ pension.
I would say that people like you
are like pigs who will hide the bodies indifferently after their parents die.
The ridicule from the biological sisters made Ichiko furious. Dropped the bowl.
The grumpy second and third son slapped her on the head, and the two sisters started to fight.
The mother who came to stop her squatted down slowly while holding her belly. Her sharp cries contained uncontrollable sadness:
Why did it become like this?
It hurts
It hurts so much
This is the first time "pain" appears in the whole film. The mother screamed out the pain of the whole family:
Why did the family become fighting with each other, and why did the daughter (sister) turn into a puddle of mud.
The disgust and disappointment that the family had carefully hidden on weekdays turned into fists at this moment, shattering the safe shell of the child hiding at home and gnawing at his old age.
The second punch came from a male colleague. After
left home, the son who originally seemed to be fighting evil immediately "revealed his true colors."
In society, she is just an introverted social fear, weak, unable to refuse, and lacking in human sophistication.
Faced with a stalking male colleague, she didn't even know how to hide, so she could only struggle to refuse.
"Boom."
There was a muffled sound, and the male colleague punched her hard in the abdomen.
said sanctimonious words, dragged her to the hotel, punched the struggling Yizi again, and then raped her.
A fist mixed with violence and sexual violence hit her. This was concrete violence inflicted on the body, and the pain caused to Ichiko was also on the physical level.
was hit in the lower abdomen. After she paused, she slowly crouched down while trembling slightly.When
was violently violated, her facial features were also struggling hard and she let out a ferocious roar.
She kept repeating "It hurts", curled up slightly, dragged her body home heavily, and fell down.
uses body language to visually express physical pain.
The third punch came from his crush, Yuji.
In the early morning, it was raining heavily, so Yizi picked up Yuji, who was weak and sick, and took him home.
When he was sick, the other party took care of him and fried a large piece of steak.
The two of them lived together naturally, eating, chatting and going to bed.
once made Ichiko feel the violent sex, which turned into the tenderness of hugging and kissing her lover.
Just when I thought the story was developing in the direction of pure love and redemption, real human nature gave Yizi another punch.
This time it hit her inner emotions.
Ichiko stayed alone all night, waiting for Yuji to come home.
As a result, Yuji ran away with another woman and never looked back.
The fourth punch came from outside voices represented by the boxing gym director.
Denial and disbelief are also an invisible fist. The curator of
poured cold water on Ichiko time and time again.
When she first came to the boxing gym, the gym director thought she just wanted to lose weight and declined her request to compete.
When she asked to take the test, the curator sipped his instant noodles and sneered, as if he had heard a big joke.
When she asked to participate in the competition, the curator continued to suck the instant noodles and said dismissively:
Realizing that she had nothing, she said she wanted to participate in the competition
Boxing is not a prop used for self-gratification
Yizi stood aside awkwardly , there was desire in his eyes, but he didn't dare to make a sound.
At the end of the film, the theme song "It hurts, it hurts, it hurts" (Pain, Pain, Pain, Pain) was not only the voice of Ichiko, who had a bruised nose and eyes at this time, but also her voice along the way.
Every time she gets punched in life, she will feel pain.
Just like after we are punched hard by reality, we can't help but say "It hurts" in our hearts.
It hurts because we have touched the truth.
The reality of life, the reality of human nature, and the real question that each of us has asked at least once.
Why am I alive?
03
Really
This is also the biggest reason why Jia Ling remade this film.
As early as three years ago, Sir reviewed "Hello, Li Huanying":
The reason why it has become the reputation champion of the Spring Festival stalls lies in two words:
Sincerity.
unforgettable sincerity.
This is the tone that makes "Li Huanying" go beyond ordinary comedy films and make "Li Huanying" come alive.
Please note that the English name of "Hot and Spicy", yolo, probably means you only live once.
"You only live once."
We can easily see the direction that Jia Ling wants to express:
"Standing" or "falling down" is not important. The important thing is to shake your fist, my friend.
This is why Sir said at the beginning that "One Hundred Dollar Love" is not an ordinary inspirational film.
In the second half of the film, after experiencing countless heavy blows, the pain finally awakened Ichiko who had been numb for a long time. She knocked on the door of the boxing gym and decided to practice boxing and participate in the competition.
She wants to win once.
Don't be greedy, just once.
At this time, the rhythm of the movie finally picked up.
has the "look" of an inspirational film.
She practiced at work, after work, while eating, before going to bed... She punched her fist again and again, getting carried away.
The path she passes every day has become her boxing gym.
The day has finally arrived.
The fat turned into muscles, the dry hair turned into neat short hair, and the shrinkage turned into sharpness.
The whole person seemed to have been completely transformed.
She stood on the ring confidently.
can face the opponents who have won four consecutive championships, and Yizi is helpless.
can only retreat and fall down again and again, becoming a "meat target".
But I couldn't even throw a punch.
When the defeat is certain, even if you can throw a punch, what can you do?
Even the curator couldn't bear it and asked Ichiko: Is
going to end?
?
With a face full of blood, tears and sweat, Ichiko was in so much pain that she could only twitch and grit her teeth in response:
Can't lose, can't lose
She stood up again and again.
The story of a little person standing up with faith has always been the ignition of inspirational films.
On the line of life and death, knocking out the opponent with one punch will push the fire to a climax.
Finally, Ichiko found an opportunity. When her opponent was careless, she found a chance to change her fate and used her golden left fist.
hit! middle! Got it!
sir believes that if the film makes her feel proud, achieve victory, and write another successful story, many viewers will burst into tears and shout "take it."
but.
The value of "One Hundred Dollar Love" lies precisely in the fact that it did not follow this routine.
instead.
Just when one piece finally hit the opponent.
's opponent quickly found the blind spot and made a killing blow.
This time, even though she tried her best to get up, she still lost.
Just like we have resisted fate countless times.
can eventually fail miserably.
Obviously, boxing here represents the rational reality and life itself. In the face of the laws of reality, has no sudden victory or miracle of survival.
Chicken soup can only enhance the freshness.
Failure is the indispensable salt of our lives.
So, this is not a big heroine or a cool novel at all.
But this is also the fundamental reason why we like "One Hundred Dollars of Love" and look forward to Jia Ling's version.
Chinese-language films of the moment. In the context of
and even the entire world, a narrative model of successful people has been promoted.
It's like "The Octagon", where you have to film a scene where the kids finally win the competition, or "The End", where the interns who have left the newspaper have to report on their own.
seems to be successful, which is the prerequisite for our efforts.
In the field of inspirational films, we always try our best to express, overtly or covertly, the message that "if you work hard, you will win."
is extremely sensational and extremely utilitarian.
But good inspirational films will tell us that success is not the only solution.
it is desire.
instead of necessary conditions and purposes.
Good inspirational films often teach us how to view failure.
and myself facing failure.
In this regard, Jia Ling has always been willing to use her truth to open the ajar door between fiction and reality.
Do you still remember the mother-daughter conversation in the tavern in "Li Huanying"?
Jia Xiaoling and Li Huanying talked about their expectations for their future children.
Jia Xiaoling said, for my future daughter, I want her to go to university abroad, become a director, and earn a monthly salary of 80,000!
Li Huanying said in a drunken tone...
Your idea is very dangerous!
Li Huanying’s answer: My future daughter, as long as she is healthy and happy.
That moment.
All Jia Xiaoling’s “efforts” came to nothing.
It was also at that moment that two people separated the yin and yang, through drunkenness and their disguised identities.
answers each other's love:
No matter whether I am here or not, you must have a good life.
Jia Xiaoling heard this sentence.
But Jia Ling can’t.
In the face of sincere and real emotions, all routines are paper tigers. Same for
.
In the stills posted online, we can actually see that Jia Ling has really lost weight.
100 pounds.
It has been three years since "Li Huanying" achieved a box office miracle of 5 billion. In the past three years, any fool can imagine that there must be countless people offering money to ask Jia Ling to make a sequel, even if it is just a movie with a title.
But Jia Ling didn’t answer.
even disappeared from the public for a whole year just for the sake of drama.
Losing weight, filming, losing weight, filming...
This kind of effort gives "Hot and Spicy" a different texture from ordinary inspirational films.
In today’s Weibo, there is a sentence that particularly touched Sir. The night when
was finalized, I sat alone by the bed, with the moonlight shining on my back. I ate five packs of chocolate wafers, a total of 30 yuan, shirtless... Looking back now, I feel very handsome, like a tired warrior. Take your loot!
is like a tired warrior, holding his loot.
sir guess, at this moment, Jia Ling's mood is:
calm.
Just like "100 Yuan Love", Ichiko was very strange when he first went to watch Yuji play.
She saw Yuji being beaten black and blue by his opponent on the stage, and was completely defeated. But after it was over, he still stepped forward and hugged his opponent.
Ichiko didn’t understand at that time.
Why can you still coexist peacefully with the person you are fighting after you fail?
And in the end, when she fought hard and risked everything to win, but was completely defeated by the opponent in the end, she also stepped forward and gave him a hug.
accepted the result calmly.
yes.
Victory is glorious.
But there is no shame in failure. What is important about
?
I have lived for myself, and I have not lied to myself.
The pictures in this article come from the Internet
