The Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, and major films have been confirmed one after another. Among the works that have been officially confirmed, the new film "Hot" by former Spring Festival box office champion Jia Ling is currently the most discussed. Various data al

The Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, and major films have been confirmed one after another. Among the works that have been officially confirmed, the new film "Hot" by former Spring Festival box office champion Jia Ling is currently the most discussed.

various data also show that "Hot and Spicy" temporarily has a gap advantage.

Also "officially announced" with the movie was the news that Jia Ling lost 100 pounds for the movie, which pushed the discussion between her and "Hot and Spicy" to a new peak. Many netizens have predicted that Jia Ling will win again. A new champion for the Spring Festival.

Whether "Hot and Spicy" can replicate the success of "Hello, Li Huanying" is difficult to predict with absolute accuracy, because the box office is always uncertain, but for Jia Ling's new round of attempts, I want to first give a like.

It is for her courage to take risks to challenge new films, and for her to once again capture the emotional pain points of the public. It is also for the energy that "Hot and Spicy" wants to convey. Every selling point is very moving. Why do

people live?

"Hot and Spicy" is a remake. The original version is the Japanese movie "One Hundred Dollar Love". When it comes to the perverted domestic entertainment of the remake, this may be the only element of "Hot and Spicy" that will make the audience hesitate.

But after watching the original version of "One Hundred Dollar Love" and then looking at the related materials of "Hot and Spicy", I am looking forward to it even more. This is a remake story, but it has a very strong localization advantage, because the pain points of are common.

The story tells the story of the transformation process of the heroine who has been chewing for many years from a decadent fat house to a professional boxer. The first half is actually very depressing, or "sad", and the passion in the second half is not an absolute pleasure, but it is very touching.

The mountain the protagonist faces is herself, or in other words, it is confused.

Working as a housekeeper at home should theoretically be a "happy" life. You don't have to run for a living, deal with complicated interpersonal relationships, or feel tired and stressed. You can sleep until you wake up naturally, or play games all night long.

Isn’t this the ideal life for many people?

But no matter how the protagonist paralyzes himself with "happiness", the audience from a God's perspective can only see "decadence". After a long period of doing nothing and being bored, the heroine gradually becomes unkempt and lacks energy.

Even if the screenwriter does not directly point out the heroine's mentality, the audience can see the confusion wrapped in her lazy appearance.

The continuous cycle of eating and sleeping every day... In the imagination of busy migrant workers, it is comfortable and relaxing, but without friends, hobbies, and goal pursuits, in such a cycle of life, "happiness" will change.

She began to be like many people who are not really happy after lying down. She doesn't know why is alive .

I can't find the meaning of life, I can't get up the energy to do anything, if I want to do something, I don't have enough energy to support it, even if I meet someone I like, I don't have the courage to love.

The movie chose a relatively "extreme" example as the protagonist. Because of her parents' tolerance, the heroine can live doing nothing and does not even have to think about the most basic survival.

In reality, most confused people may not reach this point, but there are many people who just numbly cycle for the present survival every day. They want to be happy but cannot be happy, and want to embrace life enthusiastically but have no enthusiasm. There are many people everywhere.

In numbness and decadence, everyone keeps thinking about "Why do people live?" and "What is the meaning of life?", but they can't find an exit as time goes by, because if you want to break the stagnant cage, first of all, To change to .

"Change" brings with it unknownness and fear.

Life requires "fighting"

In recent years, the concept of "lying flat" has been popular on the Internet. Some people criticize it, and some support it. Objectively speaking, every lifestyle has its meaning. Live a "living flat" life richly. Meaningful and equally powerful.

But some people actually can’t really embrace “lying flat”.

Many people's "laying down" is not out of love for lifestyle, but forced psychological comfort, or evasion of responsibilities, fear of facing pressure, fear of shouldering responsibilities, and fear of unpredictable attempts.

In order not to face these possible setbacks, they comforted themselves with "I just want to be happy," "I won't fail if I don't try," and "there's no need to struggle so much." As a result, I avoided "trouble" and lived my life successfully. An infinite loop.

wants to change, but doesn’t know how to change, let alone the failure that “change” may bring. Pain is piled up layer by layer, and self-comfort happiness keeps collapsing.

This is the social pain point that "One Hundred Dollars of Love" wants to bring out, and it is also the pain point that young people in the Z era often restrain themselves from. We have better materials and a better life, but we seem to have lost our " vitality ".

In this regard, the contrast between the characters in the TV series "Flowers" and the present is most obvious.

Miss Wang’s unwillingness to admit defeat, Mr. Fan’s busy work in the camp, Mr. Bao’s adventurous challenges, and even Mei Ping’s efforts to get the upper hand... The audience may have different preferences for each character, and they may not agree with their choices.

But the audience will definitely be moved by their spirit of gaming in the tide of the times. These characters are like fish trying to swim upstream. You may not know their purpose of swimming upstream, but you will be infected by their tenacity.

The moving part of the group portrait in "Flowers" also comes from this.

At present, what many confused people lack is the energy to fight against the sky, the earth, and the torrent. They try to stay in place to escape the attack of wind and waves, but find that the result of not moving is that they gradually become stiff. .

How to swim in a life that has become "stiff"?

This is what the movie wants to convey to the audience. Different people have different motivations, but no matter which method you choose, the first thing you have to do is to ignite your fighting spirit in life and find your own fighting spirit.

is to get out of the troubled self-protection zone and the game of life, to feel the charm of being alive from the game, and to continuously absorb the energy of life from the game. Even if we face failure, even if we encounter setbacks, it is worth a try.

We don’t have to be obsessed with figuring out “why people live”, but we must have the power to fight with life. This energy is consumed in progress and change, and also grows in progress and change, and continues to nourish our Life.

Jia Ling’s changes and unchanged

From the story core and production direction of "Hot and Spicy", the audience can also find that director and starring Jia Ling also has her "changes" and "unchanges". What remains unchanged is She has the acumen to accurately grasp social pain points.

"Hello, Li Huanying" is inspired by the concept of parent-child relationship. It tells the love that we cannot express, shows our persistent warmth, and also allows us to see the neglected love from another perspective.

After watching this movie, the audience was either moved emotionally or reconciled with family, and each was touched in their own way. This charm that can touch most viewers is the fundamental reason why the story became so popular during the Spring Festival.

The upcoming "Hot and Spicy" is not a pain point that everyone will have, but it is a trouble that more and more people are facing in recent years. It is a kind of powerlessness that cannot be said and wants to escape, which is a threat to life. Puzzled.

You can imagine how much pain there will be when this pain point is sharply displayed in front of the audience, and how much blood and healing there will be. If the pain point can resonate with the audience and inspire the audience's determination to run, it will be even more meaningful.

By doing this, the movie box office will have a natural foundation. Being able to find this pain point and use appropriate stories to discuss it with the audience is Jia Ling's success as a director.

In "Hot and Spicy", while Jia Ling accurately identified social pain points, she also showed her own "change": in order to fit the character's physique when she later becomes a professional boxer, she worked hard to lose 100 pounds.

100 pounds is equivalent to losing a 24-year-old Jia Ling.

Many netizens believe that this is a marketing gimmick for the movie, which will serve as a selling point for the 100% weight loss of the movie. It will not only arouse the audience's curiosity about watching the movie, but also help the topic of the movie to quickly ferment after it is scheduled to be released.

It is undeniable that weight loss gimmicks definitely have marketing considerations.

But aside from marketing, isn’t there any point? Yes, and it's as exciting as the core of the movie.

For Jia Ling, there are many ways to market movies, but she chose a path that requires her own perseverance to achieve. She chose something that does not require forced breakthroughs as a successful director and comedian.

She could have stayed where she was, in her comfort zone as a comedian. She could have chosen another actor to present the role, or she could have removed the character's early obesity setting and maintained the less strong body contrast of the original version.

But she didn't do either. Instead, while challenging the new film, she also challenged to lose weight, which she had not succeeded in for many years. She tried to tear off the labels on her body and welcome new changes. She did not consider whether it was successful or not, but just took action.

In this way, she is really like those predecessors who competed with the times in "Flowers", like the fish swimming upstream in the river. While we are still hesitating about the unknown ahead, they have already moved forward decisively, wandering in the vastness of the world. . The energy that

wanted to convey in the story was personally verified by the director outside the story. It was twice as touching and twice as passionate. Objectively speaking, no matter whether the movie is successful or not, this attempt and challenge are worthy of praise.