Choosing the beautiful is like a very "imported" concept, even though Guizhou has so many thousand years of history, the selection of concubines in the harem is definitely indispensable. In fact, in real life, aesthetic judgment has always been an inseparable part of East Asian culture. Look at the popularity of so many idols in Japan, Korean mold face plastic surgery, and Guizhou photo editing software.
I am still in awe of beauty pageants (regardless of gender). Anything that has evolved over the years must have its professionalism in it. This is the first theme missed in the film: mother-daughter relationship. Imagine this plot: The beauty pageant who is old and faint and whose only achievement is to win the 1991 pageant, has always been very alienated from her overweight sister/daughter. She thinks she is vain and superficial in their eyes. After the death of the sister who took care of her daughter, the mother-daughter relationship intensified and the daughter participated in the beauty pageant in order to fulfill her aunt's last wish. During the training process, the daughter gradually discovered that the beauty pageant has its internal logic and complete mechanism, which is far from being as glamorous and relaxed as the appearance; and the mother finally understands that the standards of beauty are diverse and self-consistent. The daughter understands the mother through the experience of the mother. , The mother achieved personal growth through her daughter, and the two eventually reconciled.
The basis of beauty pageants is "review", so body shaming is not only a by-product of this kind of activity, but also its foundation and power source. Pose is also a kind of "judgment." Why has it become a cultural expression of blacks, while the beauty pageant has been reduced to sexual exploitation and male gaze? This is the second theme that the film evades: reflection on beauty pageants and even aesthetic standards. Imagine a plot like this: a fat girl and a boy like each other, but they refuse because of low self-esteem. She took part in the beauty pageant by mistake, and witnessed that the backbone girl she admired paid a painful price for thinness and beauty, reflecting on the unified public aesthetics and judging herself by using it as a problem, and finally accepted her. My appearance, I chose to reconcile myself, and went on a date with the boy.
In the end, although the fat girl won the championship forcibly in order to achieve a happy ending, it was not so unexpected: the fat girl was loyal to religion, innocent, optimistic and kind, plus the dress of the swimsuit and talent show was in line with the traditional society of the 19th century and 50s. Women's expectations, even the abundance itself is a symbol of fertility. This is the third theme that the film avoids: feminism and reflection on the patriarchal society. Imagine this scenario: In order to give the bullied fat classmates angrily sign up for the beauty pageant, the fat girl understands the internal operation mechanism of the beauty pageant, sees the shady operation of the sponsor and the hidden sexist words and deeds of the review, and is shocked that the beauty pageant itself is a male A symbol of oppression of power, women who run for the election are objectified and lose themselves under the gaze of men. The fat girl finally abstained, and all the girls awakened and abstained. The beauty pageant failed, and the heroine began to learn healthy diet and reasonable exercise to control her weight within a healthy range.
Previously, I saw Miss World and other beauty pageants sporadic on Weibo. Many male IDs made a lot of comments on their top products in their comments. The beauties said they were boring, and the diversification said that the PC was all crooked. I want to say that based on the general level of Guizhou men, you Li Bai with the key.
The quality of the dramas bought by Netflix are many top-notch, but when the movie hits the street across the board, it is also weird. In the past, the kind of small productions that could not make it to the theaters could only rely on selling discs to consumers' blue discs. It was really embarrassing when they encountered the streaming service that urgently needed to expand the film library.
Then... Starting from "Things the Boy I Loved Taught Me", I vaguely felt that Netflix is taking the route of encircling the city from the countryside. The story of the film chooses what kind of towns of the fourth and fifth tiers, and it also carries various stereotypes. Rely on regionalism to break through each... Speaking of the Texas set in this film, the heroine's crush is a very delicious Texas boy. Unfortunately, there are few scenes, and the whole film is equivalent to a mobile phone pendant.
It’s a pity that this film is actually ambitious from many places, whether it’s casting (the heroine’s mother and the platinum blonde girl are not small) or various cultural embeddings (even through drug associations to poses). The meaning of) can be seen to use the brain, the above three themes are almost perfect dodge a bullet on the lips. I sincerely hope that the studio can go big or go home and dig into the theme, and stop making things that make people feel a pity.
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