Text | Zhenyan
Editor | Boyin
This year’s Spring Festival champion will once again go to Jia Ling ’s new film " Hot Hot ".
The film has been released for three days, and the total box office has exceeded 1.1 billion. The platform predicts that the total box office in the mainland will reach 4.4 billion.
But this is only a prediction of the film's 30 days of release.
If it is like "Hello, Li Huanying", the key will be extended for another month.
has no other works in the same period, so the total box office may still increase.
Therefore, the final box office of "Hot and Spicy" is likely to break "Hello, Li Huanying" and refresh the top three box office rankings of Chinese movies. While
is a box office hit, the film's reputation remains highly polarized. Although
scored 7.9 points, among the 130,000 viewers, negative reviews of one and two stars accounted for 7.8%.
More than 10,000 viewers were dissatisfied with the movie.
01
Everyone is a "scumbag"
One of the controversies in "Hot and Spicy" is "stigmatizing women".
For no other reason than the female images portrayed in this film are not flattering.
Zhang Xiaofei plays the young Li Huanying in "Hello, Li Huanying". She has a simple character design and a lovable personality, focusing on the greatness of maternal love.
But in this film, she played Le Dan as a man who cheated in marriage, and the child was not her husband's. She also felt that Le Ying (played by Jia Ling), helping her was a natural negative image.
She wanted Le Ying to transfer the house to her name, but she had no intention of asking for help.
even flipped the table and started fighting with her on the spot. She was completely a villain.
Doudou, played by Yang Zi, was originally thought to play a role in the film's laughter.
But after watching the movie, I realized that Doudou was just a bad woman who took advantage of Leying's sympathy to help her turn into a positive person.
She used malicious editing to make Le Ying an unfilial son in everyone's eyes.
also let the camera take pictures of Leying at her ugliest appearance, just to create topics for herself.
The best friend played by Li Xueqin is another one who stole Le Ying's boyfriend and became pregnant with her child.
kept Le Ying secret and asked her to be his bridesmaid. The character
does not treat Le Ying as a human being at all.
is also an image that makes people not laugh but only disgusted.
Even the image of the heroine Le Ying is not positive.
She has been living at home for many years and doesn't care about her family's feelings. She is also disliked.
The female image in "Hot and Spicy" can only be summed up by saying that everyone is a "scumbag".
02
The theme is superficial
When promoting the movie, Jia Ling posted a long article mentioning that she had lost 100 pounds.
But then he told the audience that "Hot and Spicy" is not a movie about weight loss.
This film is adapted from "One Hundred Dollar Love". The main theme of the original film is that the heroine finds herself through boxing.
On the surface, this theme has been retained after the adaptation of Jia Ling's "Hot and Spicy".
The biggest attraction and suspense of movies in the world.
Le Ying, played by Jia Ling, has changed from a fat man weighing more than 200 kilograms to a muscular woman weighing more than 100 kilograms.
What contributed to Leying’s change was her family’s unfriendliness.
is used by distant relatives, cheating on boyfriends, and cheating on best friends.
and her new boyfriend who live together do not recognize her identity.
This is just like the domestic TV series that everyone complains about.
heroines have always experienced emotional setbacks and cannot stand up without being emotionally hurt.
"Hot and Spicy" It was also because of this opportunity that Le Ying decided to change.
But using self-searching as a cover, the underlying theme is still "thinness is the foundation of everything."
Le Ying before she lost weight, no matter how her sister bullied her.
Even though she was bruised and swollen from the beating, she still got up and signed the real estate transfer document.
has obviously seen Doudou's malicious editing and made her look like an unfilial daughter.
She still softened her heart because of Doudou's few words and continued to help her act.
And when her boyfriend cheated on his best friend, it was because the best friend wanted her to be his bridesmaid. When
tried to break the rumors that he was a mistress who had become a full-time employee, he still complied with it without any temper.
Even her new boyfriend Hao Kun (played by Lei Jiayin) doesn't take her seriously at all.
was just a plaything to be looked down upon, and she was willing to be played with.
All this is because Leying is fat, has low self-esteem, and dare not raise her head when going out.
always behaves submissively in everything he does.
It wasn’t until she lost weight that she learned how to say no, and to look at her own mood in everything instead of just trying to please.
This is tantamount to conveying the idea that girls will be anxious if they are fat, and only if they are thin can they be themselves.
promotes body anxiety and appearance anxiety.
Fat girls can also be confident and pursue their dreams. They don’t have to be thin to choose to be themselves.
The theme of "Hot and Spicy" itself is somewhat biased. I can't blame the audience for interpreting it as a weight loss movie.
03
forced tears
"Hot and Spicy" does not seem to talk about family affection, but in fact the structure is very similar to "Hello, Li Huanying". In the early stage of
, it was still mainly about comedy, but in the later stage, it started to be sensational. Le Ying, who had been practicing boxing for a year, was chased and beaten in various ways after she came on the stage. The moment
fell to the ground, all the suffering she had encountered was replayed in the form of memories.
used this to poke the tears of the audience, but in fact, looking at these sufferings, it was entirely caused by Le Ying.
She can not spoil her sister, or she can cheat on her boyfriend and best friend.
should stop losses in time after seeing clearly the true face of Haokun.
However, her low self-esteem turned her into a person without dignity, who was bullied and slaughtered by others.
doesn’t know how to fight back. Such people are pitiful and hateful.
And these viewers who gave negative reviews obviously saw the shortcomings of "Hot and Spicy".
After watching Jia Ling's new movie, I finally understood Wu Jing's words.
Wu Jing mentioned that a high box office does not mean that his level is high.
After "Wolf Warrior 2" won the box office championship of Chinese movies, he was worried that his knowledge and experience could not keep up.
is not in a hurry to make new films, but wants to make up for what he is missing.
After this, Wu Jing did not take advantage of the popularity to film "Wolf Warrior III", nor did he independently direct a new movie. Instead,
carefully selected scripts and successively delivered high-quality films such as "Changjin Lake" and "The Wandering Earth", which became a guarantee of reputation.
On the other hand, when Jia Ling was filming "Hello, Li Huanying", she was accused of filming technical paediatrics.
In "Hot and Spicy", there are even fewer stunning scenes.
The presentation method is also the same. The early stage focuses on comedy, and the later stage focuses on tears without any innovation.
It is undeniable that Jia Ling, who has lost 100 kilograms, is indeed very powerful and has put a lot of effort into the film.
But she has succeeded in losing weight, but Jia Ling's level as a director is still far behind.
Maybe "Hot and Spicy" can still win high box office.
But in the end, the reputation may not always be maintained at 7.9 points.
What do you think about this? What kind of movie is "Hot" in your mind?
