The entertainment industry can have an eternal maverick character, but it can never accommodate an eternal "boyish body".
(The article was first published on MTIME, ID: Fire Kirin ST)
"Beautiful boy" is really a hot potato for the entertainment industry. In such a big dye vat, it is really not easy to keep a new-generation artist clean and healthy. After all, not everyone wants to be a "white lotus". Later, before the agents and organizations were remodeled, the "beautiful boy" himself began to give up his restraint, subvert the old image of purity and immaculateness, and make a bold transformation.
This is also the first reversal of the plot of the animated film "Weima's House", and the reason for the story - the beloved members of the beautiful girl group suddenly decided to quit the music world when their careers were in full swing, and entered the entertainment industry as a famous actor.
For Wei Ma, the label of "beautiful girl" is a constraint after a long time. If you want to develop and grow your career, you must get rid of this label sooner or later. But the label once brought Weima an enviable fame and fortune. When she abandoned this line and turned into an actress, she had to start from scratch in a new field and blaze a new trail.
The process of reopening the road is always difficult and tortuous, not to mention in the entertainment industry, there is always right and wrong. No, there was a serial murder case that was related to Weima.
In a series of scenes depicting Weima's rugged, difficult, and perilous path as an actor, Kim has repeatedly created stunning scene reversals through montage techniques. In these reversals, on the one hand, the audience’s guesses about Weima’s future and encounters were presented again and again, but they were overturned again and again; on the other hand, Weima’s psychological pressure during the transformation process was also vividly reflected in the The scene switching between the real and the fantasy, the audience can really feel the confusion between the reality and the illusion due to the unbearable burden of the entertainment industry... This kind of narrative effect not only avoids similar The "dog blood" rut that the subject film and television dramas are easy to fall into, but also shows the complicated and chaotic side of the entertainment industry from a never-numbing perspective.
After the confusing intertwining of reality and reality, it is the second major reversal of the plot - the real murderer who successively killed people related to Wei Ma's interests and made Wei Ma suffer criticism is actually the closest agent around her to stay in the United States. The reason why she stayed in the United States to kill her was simply because of her fascination with her former youth idol image.
When an idol star who has been established in the hearts of admirers is about to transform at the cost of subverting his image, there are always those who are extremely reluctant. Some are out of love, some are out of defending industry ethics, and of course, more are out of the maintenance of interests.
However, the fact is that the entertainment industry can have an eternal maverick style, but it can never accommodate an eternal "boy body". After entering this big circle, each epigenetic person has to go through a period of growth more or less, but the direction of their growth is different. It is inevitable to pay a price in the process of growth, and it does not necessarily make people better and better, but if a person refuses to grow up and is pedantic, then only the world's rejection awaits him.
The end of the film—the third major reversal of the plot—reflects Wei Ma’s mental state after going through the transformation process. After a successful career, Wei Ma went to the hospital to visit and study in the United States. When she left, she smiled in the mirror in the car and said, "I am the real one."
Although Jinmin later explained that this scene actually reflects Weima's mature and optimistic attitude after having been tempered in the showbiz, most of them are more willing to believe that this shows that what is right and wrong in the showbiz is about a person's body and mind." Blackening". But in any case, there is no doubt that Wei Ma in the film finally persisted towards the transformation goal he set at the beginning. People like "golden boys and girls" and "adults" who have goals and pursuits. Do a good job of your own life plan, and work tirelessly for it, step by step closer to your goal, the final harvest is definitely more valuable than "children's body".
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