At the beginning of the new year, the Spring Festival movies have begun. Among the works with rich types, diverse styles and diverse contents, the movie "Hot and Spicy" performed well and received enthusiastic response. With comedy as its core, the film depicts delicate and true feelings in small details, and explores with the audience how to live a life of ups and downs, and demonstrates a positive value orientation at this important moment of family fun.
"Hot and Spicy" takes the life of an ordinary girl Leying as the main line. It tells the story of her who has been idle and pursuing nothing for 10 years after graduation, and is gradually out of touch with society. After breaking through, he had to try to integrate into society again, but tests followed one after another. The image uses a realistic touch to show the frustrations and problems that ordinary people may face when growing up: misunderstanding and quarrels due to family members, deception and use by people around them for profit, and trying their best but not keeping up with the pace of society. These trivial troubles and series of blows, ordinary but real, can quickly establish an emotional connection with the audience. It is nothing more than the confusion and depression that most people feel when they are young. At the same time, the film does not deliberately exaggerate the atmosphere of hardship and depression, but appropriately incorporates humorous comedy plots, making people laugh and empathize.
Standing at the crossroads of life, how does the protagonist get out of the gloom and embrace the light? The narrative of the film is based on reality and does not fall into stereotypes. It does not set up a God's perspective, nor does it have the halo of the protagonist. Leying left home to live alone, successfully found a job, met someone she liked, tried boxing, and other attempts were all her intentions. The act of stepping out of her comfort zone was not an opportunity for her to make a grand counterattack and start a new life. Ordinary life has not caused too much splash due to these changes, because bad habits in life need to be rubbed away little by little, and the closed heart is also waiting to be slowly opened. In this way, the image is more in line with the real struggle process and intention. The ideological connotation conveyed is more profound: opportunities are not available everywhere, and success will not be achieved overnight.
Based on the solid foundation laid in the early stage, the end of the film further digs into the connotation, sublimates the concept, breaks through the inherent image narrative framework, and interprets success with a new way of thinking. At the end of the story, Le Ying finally stood in the boxing ring. Even though she had practiced hard for many days and was fully prepared, even though she was full of fighting spirit and had changed from her usual low self-esteem, she faced a powerful opponent. No miracle happened in this fight. , still ended in failure. The film does not end with the usual happy ending, allowing the protagonist to miraculously win the competition, but at this time the protagonist clenches her fists and says she wants to win for once, which makes it even more powerful because she is no longer confused and idle. , no longer has no desires and desires, but has the courage to love and hate, and has found the direction of life. This transformation has touched the audience far more directly than winning or losing a game. "Hot" looks at success from a different perspective. Success at this time allows the protagonist to regain the ability to love himself. This shining quality can enter the hearts of the audience.
In the main story line, the film also incorporates more realistic issues and elements, making the image presentation more full and the narrative level more three-dimensional. Regarding the selection of boxing as an element, on the one hand, the sport's fierce confrontation, passionate and brave characteristics are more in line with the hot theme, allowing the audience to follow the protagonist and get fired up; but more importantly, the two boxers are in Although they spared no effort in punching each other during the game, they still shook hands and hugged each other at the end to show respect and friendship. This was Le Ying’s original intention to get into this sport, and it was also the finishing touch to respond to the theme. No matter what she has experienced, , we must still uphold the quality of kindness and respond positively to life. As the main story line unfolds, "Hot and Spicy" also raises many intriguing real-life issues. For example, after many twists and turns, Hao Kun qualified to participate in the provincial competition. Should he stick to his goal and fight hard, or should he accept money from his opponents and deliberately lose the competition so that his life after retirement would be more secure? He was momentarily torn between dreams and reality. hard to decide.Doudou's TV program group was originally intended to help unemployed young people find jobs, but in fact it portrayed Le Ying as a bad young man who was unreasonable and contradicted her parents. It infinitely magnified and even fabricated the shortcomings of the guests, created gimmicks and malicious hype, in order to explode The effect is contrary to the original intention of the show. Therefore, "Hot" does not simply tell stories, but integrates deep thinking about life and society into subtle plots, allowing people to think correctly while laughing and have more motivation to move forward.
It is worth mentioning that on the first day of the film's release, Sony Pictures and Xinli Media have officially announced the global distribution cooperation of "Hot and Furious". This is the first film in mainland China that Sony Pictures has purchased the global distribution rights without participating in the production. Movie. As Hou Xiaonan, the producer of "Hot" and CEO and President of China Literature Group, said, self-growth and realization are the pursuit of universality, which is also the spiritual core of "Hot" being able to go global. Earlier, Sony Pictures won the rights to remake the English version of "Hello, Li Huanying", the first collaboration between China Literature Group and director Jia Ling. For the new work to go overseas again and receive global distribution is not only recognition of the quality of the work, but also a manifestation of the global influence of the Chinese film industry. "Hot and Spicy" tells a warm and inspirational story. The story depicts confusion, but it does not blindly magnify the pain. It records the efforts of ordinary people and respects the reality that there are no shortcuts to success. It also depicts the desire for success and honor, But don’t stick to the traditional concepts of winning and losing. Finding a way to love yourself and be the best version of yourself is also success in another sense. The film uses exquisite real details to bring positive and optimistic guidance to the audience at a time when everything is renewing.
