"She's Out of My League" (She's Out of My League): A warm and inspiring otaku spring dream
(text: Vulcan Ji)
If you fall in love with someone, will you really disregard status, wealth, appearance, occupation and related matters? everything.
This movie provides us with a kind of obscenity that may only depend on reveries; of course, we have nothing to do, so occasionally reveries and occasional obscenities, which are very positive and do not harm our great personality.
In the name of love, we will always be fascinated to believe in those very absurd but somewhat tender stories. Because life is boring, we need imagination to support our arrogant obsession and reverie. ——Vulcan Ji • "Frivolous Love That Cannot Be Laughed".
The Chinese always say: men chase women in the mountains, women chase the men in gauze. In fact, this makes sense; no matter how such a situation is placed under any cultural background, it can almost always be established. Moreover, the woman who rushed to catch up was still as handsome as Alice Eve; and the man with inferiority like Jay Baruchel was so and so down. . Of course, the handsomeness I am talking about here is actually because of the contrast brought by the object, and the director has used a lot of space to set off with side descriptions; Molly played by Alice in this movie (Molly) Maybe it's barely amazing, but Alice herself is far from the amazing effect that the movie requires. In other words, Jay is also not as unbearable as the movie deliberately denies; perhaps, Kirk, played by him, can barely achieve such an effect.
I think Kirk got the effect that Molly brought to me, perhaps far less than the fat brother Nate Torrence (Nate Torrence) played Devon (Devon) played by Krysten Ritter (Krysten Ritter) Patty (Patty) may have brought me shock. The German in the movie didn’t get anyone, because he was a married man in the movie; but I think Christen is more beautiful than Alice, and Knight is uglier than Jay, a contrasting effect Will be stronger. Anyway, you need to find a man with a very poor image to be pursued by a tall woman. Why doesn't the director hurt the killer and use a more unrepresentative and weird combination; after all, commercial effects are more impressive than artistic effects. . Therefore, we can accept that Kirk gets Molly and finally appears on the screen; and no one can accept that the result of German getting Patty may never appear. Of course, Alice is more in line with the standard aesthetics in the Western world. In Western standards, blond hair, plump, and tall are enough; Kristen prefers non-mainstream aesthetics. Gothic makeup and public personality are actually just one of mine. Little hobby. However, Knight and Jay are also only non-mainstream ugly men. Jay may have more potential audiences; therefore, Jay under commercial action may get Molly, but Knight cannot get Patty. . The reason that the casting director should understand is that if it is too outrageous and uses two non-mainstream collocations as the protagonist, it can only make the movie less convincing; therefore, giving up the collocation that may be more contrasting is a kind of Comparing to the moderate commercial compromise.
Movies are originally just a kind of video art, but video art often has to give way to commercial profits. In any business environment, this is an effortless choice. If the male and female protagonists are replaced by a combination of what I said, I think the effect may be even more shocking; the question is, how could the Virgin Mary marry Judas? The effect may be there, but the scolding sounds like menopause; in addition, it is very difficult for non-mainstream beautiful women to stand alone in Hollywood. If Jay is a typical representative of an otaku, Knight may be regarded as a model man who is fat and ugly; in terms of image art effects, the combination of beauty and mediocrity is actually far inferior to that of beauty and ugly. However, non-mainstream is actually a very heavy topic.
Of course, this is a digression, and put it aside.
The biggest market potential of this movie is that we are all grown-ups, so we don’t have any general version of the ending of fairy tales like "the princess falls in love with the prince and then they live a happy life..." Dissent; we all know that we are not a prince, so the princess can only be someone else’s tent wife forever; this movie continues the dream that we didn’t finish in our childhood and the most beautiful vision-it tries to make We continue to believe in another fairy tale ending-yes, we may not be a prince, but in our princess's heart, we are the prince she desires most.
It is always good to live alone with a little bit of beautiful vision; not to mention, the vision it promises us is just so cheap and straightforward. With good expectations, I suddenly recalled the beautiful fairy tales that had been covered in dust since my childhood, and tried to believe again: I was the hero I once believed in, and I drove the colored carriage to the palace to pick him up. Take your own bride... Let yourself once again play the hero we once eagerly aspire to. After overcoming obstacles and hardships, we finally find our own happiness and eternal happiness... Remember what I did when I was a teenager. This is actually not shameful. The problem is that maybe we ourselves can't believe in such a story, ha ha.
Fortunately, this is just a movie, and we are just fans. We can admire Kirk’s beautiful life, while lamenting Molly’s sorrow of flowers and cow dung, and then observing the faith suspiciously, and then obsessively and obsessively; finally, we must use a sensible look, Make a ruthless criticism of it. But why is this necessary? Believe it and let it go is actually a virtue.
The domestic translation of this movie into "I'm Not Worthy of Her" is a literal translation; while Taiwan directly translated it into "Spicy Girl Loves Otaku", which itself is somewhat preconceived and misleading. Watching ball games, participating in Patty, and occasionally working out on the bowling alley, sitting down with a few friends and drinking a few beers when you have nothing to do... This is not actually an otaku, this is almost most Americans. The most daily life they have lived. Spicy women are hot, but otaku are not; at least that's what I see in the movie. It's just such a translated name, it's more or less likely to make us think about it; the key to misleading us lies in the word "prostitution".
After a person is completely hurt, what choice will she make? Perhaps it is playing the world cynically, or hiding in the dark cowardly and licking the wound alone; then find a safer lover who can but will not hurt the other party, but the other party will never and absolutely cannot hurt himself.
Arguing over some small issues that may not be necessary, and even stalemate because of some small disputes, and then break up; but in the end, they will always come together. The so-called love, in fact, is always the same and lacks imagination; but this is not the most persistent and indisputable customary fixed pattern of love movies. To put it bluntly, the end of love is nothing more than two endings: together or not together; regardless of which ending is chosen by a film and television work, when we repeat it in other people’s stories thousands of times, the love story is As far as we are concerned, in fact, we will never find any surprises that may bring forth new ideas. It’s just a legend. What really makes us happy and not tired is because we have the element of curiosity and gossip, so we are always too much about things that are not so often exposed to the sun. A kind of hopeless self-restraint and persistence in breaking the casserole and asking the end. The fairy tale about love also adheres to such a simple and clear basic principle.
This is a movie that is so simple that it can almost be seen through at a glance; however, this does not prevent us from talking about it after watching this movie easily and happily. Obviously, this movie is actually beyond our general understanding. Perhaps, life can actually be as simple as it is in the movie; as I said before-a few people, a few ridicules, a few things, and a few glasses of beer. Such a life may be too boring and monotonous; however, most people don't live a life of ease like this. But from another perspective, the success of this movie may be precisely here. After reorganizing everything that is too ordinary in life, it does not make people feel boring; while there is no in life, such as Kirk I got Molly and played an essential role in the movie.
Give yourself some room for imagination, this movie is actually not a story that is too hard to believe. I remember that when Chandler met a stunning woman in "Friends", when he couldn't rely on himself, his friends once encouraged him like this-Don’t you see the beauty will always be obtained by a CheapGuy, and you can also fight for it. A member of CheapGuy beside those beauties. Relatively speaking, the probability of CheapGuy getting beautiful women is actually not very low. Of course, I think: this movie may not be very attractive to people who are too young, whether it is a man or a woman; it may be more easily induced by people who are older and have a certain life experience. resonance. After all, we are all past that young and frivolous age, and we gradually have some inevitable frustration; then, we will more or less have some desire for miracles, even though our life experience will also tell us— -The so-called miracle is actually something that can be met but not sought. But we are always thirsty, because people are alive-in fact, it is nothing more than a little bit of expectation.
The movie begins with the right foot and calf wearing high heels where Alice got off the car; along the way, boys from eight to eighty years old looked at her with an expression of consternation. Director Jim Field Smith (Jim Field Smith) may want to show that Molly in the movie is enough to make every man of every age group amazed as a god; and obviously, Jim makes Alice play Mo The role of Li seems to be a bit frivolous. Of course, the expressiveness of his shots tells me what he wants to express, but maybe I should be more cautious when it comes to casting. Perhaps Alice may have such amazing power in Western aesthetics; this is beyond my judgment.
From the moment Molly appeared on the stage, every man seemed so impatient, every man was so disregarded of his own image that even the most basic social etiquette was forgotten, every man had forgotten the number of people who slept with him next to him. The wife of ten years looks so lustful and confusing. In fact, the most anxious thing is not all the men who disqualified in this terminal in the movie, but it is the director Jim who is eager to confess his heart; the director’s intention is to use these side descriptions to tell us how beautiful Molly is. The indispensable "heaven and man", but no matter how glamorous a woman looks, such a way of appearance is really a bit "thunder". I can't imagine, if the world is really such a beautiful woman as the director portrayed, how her life might grow up. For example, if a man is picked up in Jim’s shots and put him and Molly in a solitary environment without others, judging by his performance in front of the terminal building, we What can be imagined is-what kind of animal behavior this man will do. Even if we throw our great Liu Xiahui to Molly in a solitary environment, from Jim's point of view, he must have a hungry tiger-like desire, and immediately tore Molly to pieces with lightning speed... It's about ordinary people.
This is destined for Molly's life. She can't only thrive in the bright sun and in front of the public; there are always people who are crazier than men who can't rely on themselves, and they will wait in some inconspicuous dark corner. Even if Molly only placed the order once, and then swooped out from the dark...So, little Molly grew up to appear in the movie at such an age, I think she is already full of grief and indignation after all the battles, how could it still bloom There is such a fresh and happy smiling face. People can look beautiful, but it is basically impossible to survive in this world to such an extent as Meicheng Jim imaged. As the saying goes, "everyone is not guilty, and he is guilty of crimes." Everyone will always have some filthy desires to destroy the perfect and flawless things; and just like this, it is doomed that Molly can only be destroyed to pieces.
Of course, this also left a flaw in this movie. Except for this set of shots, in other public places, the vibration caused by Molly seems to be much milder, or even completely ignored; I can’t figure it out, because the men in the airport are so frivolous and special. Without reason, in any other occasion outside the airport, men are more able to control themselves and be more rational. Novels may appear in such a way, while other occasions do not need to add close-up features, because appearances on other occasions allow readers to imagine for themselves, but movies are different; as a concrete visual art, it is actually compared to The novel lacks a kind of imagination, which cannot be filled with imagination. Therefore, unless this method of appearance is consistently repeated in every scene from the beginning to the end of the movie, it can only become the biggest criticism and the biggest bug of the movie itself.
Every downhearted man will more or less have a few equally downhearted friends, at least when they are lost, they can comfort each other, listen to each other's anger about life and give each other some self-righteous ideas; such a relationship The certainty can prevent friends from completely despairing of life, and then in order to achieve after-effects. I remember the classic scene described in the classic essay "There are Lesbian Cars" written by Eileen Chang in April 1944. Eileen Chang concluded at the end of her article: "The woman on the tram makes me sad. The woman... …Women talk about men all their lives, think about men, and complain about men, forever and forever.” Looking at it from another angle, men will still make Zhang Ailing sad. Several men sit together and talk about women as well. The same is a woman, and the one who complains is still a woman, forever and ever. And, it's not just that in this movie, I found that the truth in life also seems to be the same; men and women are actually a topic that never ends.
Give everyone a score, and let your score go up as much as possible, but even if you hit the extreme, it is still far from the score that the other party gets in your heart; so all the men persuade you to give up This kind of arrogant fantasy, she can't love you, you can't get her. This may be the unified conclusion that a few otaku get most of the time when they are together, but when the woman who has scored ten points frequently shows good to you who has only five points, you will start not to believe so much in the assertions of your friends; , Perhaps because of a kind of expectation that does not harm yourself, you will gradually accept the desire and expectation that this dream lover brings you.
You will always think that she is with you, but only because you are "safe", as long as you willingly act as her last "backup", she will always love you. Even after she spends a whole day with your "unscrupulous" family, you can't stay with her "appropriate" family for five minutes; however, she is still willing to listen to you and understand your shame. Because of the difficulty of meeting people and finally recovering and forgiving you... But after the two of you are together, there will still be problems. Yes, because of your low self-esteem.
You will constantly question why the other person is with you. You will always think of every unbearable girlfriend of your past and they will abandon you like a haystack. You will always think of every one of her exes and find yourself. For all the shortcomings, you will always worry about when you will suddenly lose her at a loss. End this whimsical love like a flying fairy from the sky. After all, you will not believe why you got such a blessing from the sky. Such a gorgeous lover...you will finally be bursting with your hysterical self-esteem by your only little inferiority complex, and then, you finally finally-forever completely lost her.
It can be said that there are very few people who can finally cultivate a positive result like this kind of gaping love. The movie says-you are completely worthy of me, and it is you who really are not worthy of you. (You were plenty good enough for me, you were just never good for you.) When the man in the movie heard this sentence, he suddenly said: Oh shit. The previous sentence is actually the most beautiful lie that Hollywood tells the inferiority homeboys all over the world, so Oh shit actually has another meaning. To be honest, the story told in this movie is not very credible for me at this age; I don't believe in such fanciful love stories anymore. Even though we always say that love is a noble emotion that transcends geography, age, status, and nationality, we are actually not so convinced of this beautiful lie. The experience of growing up and life tells us that the romantic love may be more lasting; it is not that we no longer naively believe in all beautiful emotions, but that we have learned to analyze everything more rationally.
Too many fairy tales are actually just suitable for us to look forward to in our childhood, and when we grow up, we will always regard those fairy tales as entertainment; this movie is actually quite suitable as a fairy tale to inspire our family. Too advanced and a little shy little boy, and for us who are already very naive, it is just entertainment. Of course, looking at it from another perspective, the director is trying to tell us that we can actually do many things, such as Kirk said that he would never fly a plane. But Kirk finally drove the plane with his beloved girl soaring in the blue sky, let us look up... And why can Kirk do this, because he suddenly believed in himself, yes, I can actually do it myself.
I don’t really believe that the part of love exists in such a cruel real world, and about the part of self-confidence, I am somewhat hesitant. Indeed, why we are unable to accomplish many things is not because of our talents, not because of our lack of abilities, but because we believe that we cannot succeed without the talents and abilities, so we stopped trying. Confidence is very important. Believe that you can do it, and not blindly believe it, but to believe in a targeted way. We may be able to do many things that we may not even dare to think about.
On the road of life, we may not just be the spectators on the street, we have always been the protagonists in our lives. It’s just that when we turn our life of interest into a life of spectators, we really become A, B, C, D; if we experience our lives as a plane flying on the takeoff path, we may be the opportunity to grasp the direction. Grow up. We are all the protagonists in our own life path, and what kind of direction our life will be, in fact, all depends on our own self-confidence and hard work.
In my opinion, this movie is actually an otaku's spring dream, not so reliable; however, it is also a warm and inspirational little movie, at least we will find some emotions that make us yearn for. Director Jim’s first feature-length feature film is actually very well done, without too much criticism, some laughter, some low-key warmth, some bright expectations, some lonely sadness, and some other things that are enough for us to think... …That’s enough.
Gengyin Tiger Year, Guiwei June, Jiazi second day; 2010-7-13; 1:00 in the morning.
Note: Movie information.
■ Title: "She's Out of My League"
■ Translation: "I'm Not Worthy of Her"
■ Director: Jim Field Smith (Jim Field Smith)
■ Screenplay: Sean Anders (Sean Anders)\ John Morris
■Starring: Jay Baruchel\Alice Eve
■Genre: Romance\Comedy
■Length: 104min
■Place of Origin: United States
■Language: English\Ukrainian
■Color: Black and White\Color
■Classification: USA:R
■Format: 35mm film anamorphic widescreen
■Mixing: Dolby Digital Surround
■Filming format: 35mm(Kodak Vision3 500T 5219)
■ Development format: 35mm (anamorphic)
■ Production company: DreamWorks
■ Distribution company: Paramount Pictures
■ Premiere date: March 11, 2010 (Australia)
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