"I have experienced hell on earth and heaven on earth."
Gia was originally a Cinderella in Philadelphia with divorced parents, but she became the most sought after and most shining supermodel in New York; and then lost everything, including her young and fresh life, to injecting drugs. Like Gia, there may not be many people who have experienced extreme ups and downs, hell, and heaven in their short lives. But there should be many people who resonate with her experience, or emotions that are difficult to calm. Whether it is grief and pity or resentment, perhaps under emotions, the question of why Gia took the path of tragedy and who created the hell on earth and heaven on earth is what the film "Gia" reminds us to think about.
The violent family environment brought by her parents when she was a child gave her a sense of insecurity, and her mother left her home to give up her custody, which made her lose her maternal love. She longed for a complete family but could no longer have it. Wrapped carefully in appearance and vulgar demeanor, no one knew or believed that the little girl in her heart never grew up again. So she kept writing the story of the little girl in her diary: a long, long time ago there was a little girl with blond hair who lived in a beautiful house... always the same story, different and the same.
Under Tom's discovery and Wilhelmina Cooper's insight, Gia instantly became a fashion darling with her unique charm. And "that kind of fashion is not art, let alone culture. Her fashion is just advertising, and advertising means money." For model companies and advertisers... She is a tool for investing in commodities and making money. Every dollar she made deserves something in return. The breathless work makes her tired of playing the role of celebrity, and others don't care who she is, "be a model and be beautiful, it doesn't matter what you say". Tom thought, "This job is not suitable for me at all." "I need someone to take care of me, I'm just a child" is just Gia's coquetry. Tom's departure, and his mother's neglect of "a big girl has to look like an adult", made the little girl in Gia once again isolated in this strange but fast-moving world.
Gia wrote in her diary: "A long time ago, in a kingdom far, far away, there lived a little girl with blond hair. When people in that village saw her, they would say, oh how beautiful she is! They showed her a beautiful house on Mars, and they told her to live here forever. The little girl said, oh life on Mars is different, it's safe, clean and beautiful, but how do you get there? Take a taxi? Or take a bus? How do you know where you are? They say, you have already arrived." This is enough to see that in such a realistic, cruel and indifferent fashion circle, Gia is uneasy about the life she is arranged for. self-doubt.
"What they see is not the real you. You are playing a gold model now, but if you take this role as yourself, your life will be miserable. So you have to leave for a while," Gia said to herself. She wanted to run away, but she had nowhere to run. Her mother said she loved her while she was shut out, and her work colleagues advised her to "take the opportunity while the whole world is under your control." She can only force herself to continue the life of being used, exploited, and oppressed, and she chooses to use drugs as a way to relieve the pain caused by this. The story of the little girl in Gia's diary goes like this: "She lived in a beautiful big house, everyone liked her, and she was very happy. But the people in the village were very poor, and they would crawl into her when she was sleeping. house, cut her blonde hair and sell it for money, they thought she would never notice, and her blonde hair is getting less and less every day."
The death of Gia's agent, Wilhelmina Cooper, gave Gia another painful blow. No one was really sad at the funeral, only gossip and ridicule, and the chill around them made Gia think of fleeing again. Another thing that firmly convinced Gia to leave is that Gia, who was in the commercial, suddenly became addicted to drugs, and she asked for help when she was not feeling well. Not only was there no one in the work team to help, but she was worried that she would vomit on her clothes, and at the same time, she was helping her. Excited by the godless eyes and the confused state, she kept taking pictures... This time Gia injected drugs intravenously. A scarred Gia knocks on the door of her beloved makeup artist Linda, and the two decide to return to Philadelphia to help Gia detox. A 21-day detox treatment is about to succeed, but Gia misunderstands Linda to keep in touch with her old love. Gia's extreme behavior is a manifestation of her extreme fear of losing. She suddenly realizes that, despite her disgust, "work" is the only way she can take control of her life. Her life was once again in a cycle of misery.
The new company, Largo, uses her experiences of drug addiction and detox as a talking point for attention and money. And she couldn't resist the temptation of drugs. Disappointed Linda asked Gia to choose between drugs and herself, and Gia chose drugs out of the blue. Soon Gia's bad performance on the T stage made her useless, she was abandoned by the fashion circle, and her time passed. The down-and-out Gia wanted to live at her mother's house, but was rejected again by her mother. "The people in the village said she was no longer beautiful, and they kicked her out of the beautiful house and threw her on the street. She went away and never came back. Soon people became greedy again and went back to the house to find gold, but there There is no more gold." Thus ended the little girl's story.
However, Gia's tragedy is not over yet. Tom, who heard about Gia's drug use experience, took Gia to the drug rehab center. After a painful detox, she was found to have contracted AIDS after using a contaminated syringe. Facing the incurable disease, Gia seemed extraordinarily calm, she comforted Tom and said, "I think God has an arrangement for everyone, I think God has made the best plan for me, but not when I am alive. Time." When Gia needed family care most, her mother refused to take Gia home on the grounds of fear of infection. Gia spent most of her last days in hotels. During the period, she went to see her beloved Linda once. Facing Linda who was looking forward to starting anew with herself, Gia did not tell her her illness. "Dear Linda This is the last part of my book, the last page, the last page. I just want to see you and hear you say hello and goodbye to me; feel your taste, your touch, and put me kisses on your face. You are my only one, you are my miracle."
At the end of the film, Gia monologues:
Life and death, vitality and serenity.
It would be worth it if I died today.
Because I have experienced the hell on earth,
Experienced heaven on earth.
back between the two,
Experience it, feel it, go beyond it.
"Returning between heaven and hell" is Gia's choice after her life. If life could really be reincarnated, she would choose between heaven on earth and hell on earth, the most ordinary, even the most mediocre life. "I'll have kids of my own. I'll give them yellow roses. I'll give them a kiss every day. And tell them you don't have to be famous because I don't think a celebrity is anything." "I can be a good housewife. "
Why are heaven and hell on earth? From time to time, ordinary life has become so difficult to grasp. Life is never a matter of one person. It comes from family, from social circles, from the temperature between people, from love...
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