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Jennifer Lopez (Jennifer Lopez) The new documentary "Halftime" is mediocre beyond imagination, pushing the inherent flaws of this genre to a new level. The film revolves around two major events for the 50-year-old Queen: the movie "Hustlers" that missed the Oscar and the 2020 Super Bowl halftime show.
Mediocre does not refer to the diva Jennifer Lopez, who is still in great form. She's great. Her performance in "Showgirls" was a strong rival to Laura Dern ("Marriage Story"). Unfortunately, she lost to her in the Golden Globe Awards first, and she has been thinking about the Oscar for twenty years. Not even nominated.
In the Super Bowl halftime show of the same year, two Latin queens Lopez and Shakira (Shakira) killed the audience, saving the halftime show ratings that had been deteriorating in previous years.. The 24-hour playback volume of the live video on YouTube exceeded 50 million, approaching the previous record of Bruno Mars (Bruno Mars) of 57 million. At the end of the documentary, they are like two big cats standing on top of the world, confidently showing their strength, beauty and cultural roots. Two bolts of lightning - the highest level of the entertainment industry and the ancient Latin culture - hit them at the same time. The strong tremors turned into a beautiful hip-shaking dance between the two, which was attracted to them like a magnet and played again and again, which was ecstatic.
Jennifer Lopez documentary "Life Halftime Show"
In the past ten years, more and more heavyweight female singers have made documentaries. The list includes but is not limited to: Katy Perry , Lady Gaga , Bi Angce , Taylor Swift , Billie Eilish , Charli XCX, Olivia Rodrigo...
are both on the front desk of the entertainment industry, but singers and actors are different. Actors need a sense of mystery, and they will not easily agree to put their life stories into documentaries before they reach the final stage (old age or death). Pop music singers have a stronger desire to express themselves, especially women. In this male-dominated industry, every woman who has worked her way up to the top has something to say. Being mistreated, stigmatized, and hijacked by issues such as sex, body, love, and family, the profession that they take seriously is often reduced to entertainment gossip. It's best for a star to have the right balance of tabloid news and serious commentary, but top female singers often have more of the former than the latter. Spending your own money to hire people to make documentaries is a good way for female singers to regain their right to speak and fully express themselves.
They often choose a time of efficient creation - the birth of a new album or a performance is most common, and let the filming team enter the scene. In these films, they are not only the narrators, the main creators, but also the performers, combining decisiveness, calmness and perseverance with passionate emotion. These videos show products that have been carefully controlled to bring out the best in them. Even if there are fragile emotions such as jealousy, uneasiness, and loss, they will eventually dissipate behind each brilliant masterpiece.
Katy Perry's "Part Of Me" records her 124 world tours. Health problems and the collapse of a marriage are caught in this overwhelming current, which rather than derailing the odyssey, adds a special vitality to it. Honesty is a bonus, and when the colorful candies reveal their fragility, they receive a lot of praise.
Katy Perry's documentary "This Is Me"
On Douban, the scores of all such documentaries are on the high side - 7.5 points at the bottom, often reaching 9 points. Lady Gaga's "GAGA: Five Foot Two, 2017" takes a similar angle to Lopez's, focusing on the months in 2016 when she was preparing for her Super Bowl halftime show and new album "Joanne". Because it captures how real pain grows closely with art, "Five Feet Two" has a score of 8.8.
The Lady Gaga documentary "Gaga: Five Foot Two"
Taylor Swift's "Miss Americana" (Taylor Swift: Miss Americana) uses a set of fast-cut shots as the film's best metaphor: on stage, Swift The splendid clothes of are torn open in an instant, revealing a more dazzling interior (including anorexia and friendship with plastic flowers). Regarding the holidays with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, and the sexual assault lawsuit with the radio DJ, Swift provided her own version. The film lists out all the ill will that the public and the media have towards her, without mentioning the B-side content that is detrimental to her, making Swift once again stand in the position of the victim just like she did when she was nineteen years old.
Taylor Swift Documentary "Miss America"
Among the younger generation of female singers, documentaries that simply show the creative scene are highly sought after by fans. Billie Eilish's "Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry" casts a deep glance into her dark bedroom. Unlike many of her fellow queens, Eilish's success is not a castle built through hard work, but a lot of unknown and vague melancholy. The world's biggest songstress has just come of age, and it's this bedroom, her family and a lot of darkness that makes her who she is.
Billie Eilish documentary "Blurry World"
Charli XCX's "Alone Together" intercepts her album creation stage during the epidemic, focusing on Charli's super DIY ability and online community There is no haze or argument about creativity, only the pleasure of creation. Olivia Rodrigo's "Olivia Rodrigo: driving home 2 u" records a road trip from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles, and the whole journey is also filled with invincible sunshine.
These documentaries are used as bonus points for performing arts careers, which often goes against the original intention of documentaries to "show reality". Used well, it adds points to the artist's image. But if there is only one voice, it is limited to showing the side of the divas that they want to publicize, and it emphasizes accuracy more than the choreography of the stage performance, it will be the same thing.
Lopez's "Life Halftime Show" is so boring. The radiant Jennifer Lopez, who wanted to be heard, seen, and recognized, wasted this opportunity to show the world a J Lo who is extremely compliant with the mainstream values of the American entertainment industry.
She tells a story about a standard American dream: Latina , who comes from an ordinary background and escapes her family to pursue art. After becoming famous, she still believes in the traditional concept of family first. She regards "The Showgirls", which has an almost all-female and ethnic minority creative cast, as the closest opportunity for an actor's career to reach the stars. This is in itself a kind of trickery and arrogance. In the film, from the Screen Actors Guild Awards to the Oscars, there are the most intensive voices of others - all of which are affirmations of Lopez's acting skills and regrets for his failure. In a word, "You totally deserve these awards."
spends the rest of the page praising Lopez's extraordinary efforts. Indeed, every female artist who can persist in the highly competitive stage until the age of 50 is a superwoman and deserves praise. The problem is that its narrative logic is too simple and crude, compressing Lopez's rich career as an actor into one dimension-all successes and failures are because of his ethnicity. This politically correct mentality sums up the actress Lopez: The reason why her career of 35 or 40 films is not properly recognized is because the public always focuses on her Latina butt and romance. , while ignoring her artistry. But is it really just because of prejudice? "Crying Rose" (Selena) is the peak of Jennifer Lopez's acting career. From "Selena" to "Selena", her acting skills have not improved in direct proportion to her accumulation of works.
Another aspect of the film's mediocrity is the appearance of Lopez herself. Although the original intention is to "show the self she wants to show," the tailored self still has a distinction between more real and less real. Jennifer Lopez showed exactly a self that lacked real texture in "The Halftime Show of Life".
There is a detail. She was racing against time to put on makeup while seeing a private doctor. She confided to the doctor that she was "depressed" because she could not see her daughter due to her long-term heavy workload.The doctor advised her to rest for a while, and she smiled and said, "Tell me this again on Christmas." The dialogue is like lines from a TV series. She plays the role of a self-disciplined and strong white man, flaunting herself with jokes in the scene. The subtext is nothing more than: busyness and success are the yardsticks for measuring the world, and only on this basis can there be space for equal rights and all kinds of self-expression.
Stills of "The Halftime Show of Life"
Every word spoken by Jennifer Lopez in the film is like the American dream described by politicians, which is great, just and bright, without the shadow of humanity. She insisted on using a cage-shaped device for the Super Bowl halftime show to express her condemnation of the Trump administration’s use of barbed wire cages to house refugees. After competing with NFL, the performance went as she wished. She and Shakira made a house-shattering noise on behalf of the Latino community, heard around the world. When the huge success of the show is self-evident, if the creator can control herself to say less beautiful words and let the art speak for itself (her partner reminded her), it will have the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort.
but jennifer did not or would not control herself. In the process of tailoring her self-image, she sometimes reveals her narcissistic side. For example, in the scene with the doctor, after greeting each other, she asked the doctor: "Have you seen my movie?"
There are probably no top people in the entertainment industry who are not narcissistic. Only by loving yourself enough can you use your body as a creative container to accommodate the world. But narcissism alone is not enough. You also need love for others, the courage to reveal the dark side of human nature, and the self-confidence to express yourself without forcing others to accept it, in order to achieve perfection.
If you have watched the documentary "Madonna: Truth or Dare", you will have a clear opinion. Madonna in the film doesn't have any heroic words, but only insists on one thing: all shocking stage performances are art. Art inspires thinking, but she does not impose her thoughts on others. Madonna and her queer dancers went on a grand tour together, becoming as close as a family on and off the stage. All the characters in the documentary shine (rather than Mai alone). In contrast, in Lopez's "Life Halftime Show", all the people who appeared were her foils, including her daughter who was on the stage with her at the Super Bowl. The characters have one mission: to illustrate, directly or indirectly, what a good singer and actress Jennifer Lopez is. Everything she deserves but doesn't get is because of her Latina origins and tumultuous romance. She succeeded because of extreme personal struggle, and failed simply because of social injustice. Such simplification is the greatest injustice to Jennifer Lopez herself.
Under the sky supported by success, she could have told the half-life story of a Latina woman who is a real, complex, and full of vitality in addition to the realizer of the American dream, the practitioner of the affirmative movement, and the hard-working player in the entertainment world.
Documentary "Sleeping with Madonna"
Editor in charge: Chen Shihuai
Proofreading: Xu Yijia
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