As a cool drama, it's not bad, but as a feminist drama

Royce 2022-04-20 09:01:14

1. The heroine with fair, slender, curly hair and big eyes, delicate makeup anytime and anywhere, and a bit stubborn, I like it very much, and I can give her 4 stars. But considering that the current rating is inflated, give 1 star to pull the score first.

2. In the early years, the martial arts literature of the stalls had a fixed routine: the protagonist of an orphan, with an extraordinary root and bones—Occasionally get the secret, it will be automatically decompressed and engraved into the brain as soon as it is opened—Occasionally get the elixir, soaring the inner strength that others can only practice for a lifetime— After learning to go out of the mountains, walking the rivers and lakes - a domineering spirit, the opposite sex loves it, and the same sex helps it - occasionally encounter setbacks, but also fall into the lewd poison such as strange prostitution, and there happens to be a beautiful girl who is willing to devote herself to detoxification - kill Enter the base camp of the Demon Sect, and slay the great demon king—make a name for yourself, and return to seclusion with beauty, the whole book is finished.

3. Change it to an American drama: the protagonist of an orphan, who inherited the talent of his mother's doctor of mathematics - stealing a chess magazine, you can understand it at a glance, and you can win when you make a move - drinking and taking drugs can enter the state of automatic circulation of the whole body's infuriating energy, and the size of the week will be upgraded. Ah bah, just staring at the ceiling while drinking and taking drugs , Contribute to the contribution, just ask what you have done for the heroine, don't ask if the heroine has paid back your $10 genius career start-up capital - occasional setbacks, but also in exchange for more people to contribute money and help - to go to Moscow, Slaying the world champion, the Great Demon King of the Soviet Union - made a name for himself, accepted the cheers, and the whole play ended.

4. The so-called "one woman kills all men and bravely ascends to the championship" is actually a virtual plot. Contemporary women's chess leader Hou Yifan ranks 84th in all genders. That is to say, there are 83 men in the world who are as powerful as the heroine of this show, and who have supernatural abilities and still use plug-ins. If there is no separate women's team, there will be almost no female chess players in the world competition.

5. In fact, this is an American-style inspirational story. The correct understanding should be as follows: The orphan protagonist has an extraordinary talent—successfully participates in the competition and shines—drinking and taking drugs and losing their ideals—being inspired by love to return to faith—abstinence from alcohol and drugs The magic is complete - to cut the ultimate demon king of Soviet Russia. If you are familiar with sports, you should think that this is the combination of the life of swimming legend "Flying Fish" Phelps + Stallone's "Rocky". But why are these two big guys not popular? Because the men who take this road are really too crucian carp, it is too common, and the protagonist is changed to a woman to have a fresh feeling.

6. Chess is very unpopular in the United States, and the competition is very small. Look at the heroine's boyfriends: the state champion decides to become an electrical engineer, the national champion lives in the basement and sleeps on an air mattress (this is the United States where a mansion costs only $7,000), the national championship game is held in a second-class university lecture hall , uses plastic chessboards and plastic chess pieces, and the National Chess Association can only maintain operations by selling magazines... So this show may also have the purpose of promoting chess, at least it can be pushed away among women.

7. Why was the Soviet Union so keen on chess? This is the characteristic of the national system + socialism: it is good to fight alone, but not in team sports. American chess players said enviously: "In the Soviet Union, they paid people to play chess". As long as you are willing to burn money + high-intensity training, you can always select masters. Don't talk about the mass base. Does diving have any mass base in China? Weightlifting has a mass basis? Don't you still get the gold medal? The training camp system has never needed a mass base. The most important thing is that other countries do not play this.

8. Yes, an essential part of training champion players is: high-intensity closed training. Like the heroine, going to school, drinking, falling in love, and living, all without delay, is the fantasy of a lay director. The collective life, collective training, layer-by-layer selection, and mass elimination of chess players in the Soviet Union is the right way to compete. China and South Korea have surpassed Japan by a large margin in recent years. They also rely on the selection of young people to train thousands of games a year, and use young brains to perform high-intensity calculations. In the end, AlphaGo was born and became one of the most powerful chess sports. King.

9. The all-white clothes the heroine wore in the last scene corresponded to the propaganda poster hanging above the gate of the Moscow arena where the red queen chess piece (Soviet Union) knocked down the white queen chess piece (reactionary). It just so happened that the heroine also held Baizi in the last game.

10. This film is actually quite white and left. It imagines that the world is harmonious, and people all over the world do not know each other by playing chess. Therefore, the American way of life and competition atmosphere are often used to imitate the Soviet Union. Perhaps it was just to make the film available for sale in Russia. Of course, Russia allowed the producers to go to Moscow to film and film, without scolding the show for "humiliating Russia", and it still had the quality of European countries.

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