What is beauty?
The Han Dynasty has Zhao Feiyan’s slender figure, and the Tang Dynasty has Yang Yuhuan’s round and smooth pearls, and thinness and fatness are equally matched.
But today's aesthetics are becoming more and more extreme, and beauty has become a quantifiable and mass-producible unit.
Among them, fatness becomes the original sin.
Fortunately, this new film unleashes the current stereotyped cognition and impression and makes different voices for us.
" Hungry "
Director: Xie Peiru
Starring: Cai Jiayin / Lai Linen / Xie Zuwu / Zhang Yaoren
Douban : 6.9 | IMDb : 6.3
210 pounds Ajuan didn't even know her specific weight before being forced to go to the weight loss class by her mother. In her own words,
"Isn't it cute to be fat?"
But the people around her seem to be less tolerant of her than she is.
Because of her fatness, Ajuan became a person who was teased and targeted. The humiliation induced by obesity is eroding her life bit by bit.
30 years old, she loves cooking and dreams of becoming a chef in a high-end restaurant, but because of her figure, she can only cook in her mother's kindergarten.
Although the kindergarten children like her, they also call her "Big Dinosaur Teacher".
Obviously just sitting quietly on the chair and eating, but you can hear the harsh mockery of the boys playing basketball.
"She likes you, you confessed to her when you enter" "Boar Knight"...
What's even more terrifying is the malice from adults.
The uncle, who looks kind-hearted, takes advantage of his wife going out to harass Ajuan, who accidentally pushes him down while resisting.
When the uncle's wife learned about it, she began to be resolute and pointed at Ajuan's nose on the street and scolded.
"He is not blind, how could he touch you?"
"Look at how disgusting it is, how could my husband fall in love with such a fat man!"
If the humiliation from the outside world is a heavy blow to Ajuan, then the harm of his family is fatal.
Ajuan's mother is a slim figure and well-maintained woman. She treats her children very gentlely, but she is particularly disgusted when she sees her daughter.
Not only did she often ask Ajuan to eat less, but she even gave her birthday gifts to weight loss classes.
clearly knows how much Ajuan values the menu, but she doesn't even want to put Zhang Ajuan's photos on it.
"You eat yourself like this, which parent dares to give you the menu."
What's more ridiculous is that she even exchanged Ajuan's weight loss effect with no effort.
is like the two thin girls in the movie watching Ajuan’s comments: “Don’t you just rely on diet and exercise to lose weight? You have to blame others if you can’t do it.”
Not everyone can lose weight successfully just like Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng in “ Slimming Men and Women ”.
may be a natural genetic problem, or it may be that there are various reasons such as excessive intake of hormones in drug treatment, and simply physical training and dieting cannot help them lose weight.
So in the movie, the director did not show us the dream of Ajuan's success in losing weight, but put the cruel reality in front of us.
Ajuan can only drink bitter melon juice to eat weight loss meals every day. Even so, she was criticized by the coach for a glass of sugar-free cola she drank while watching a movie.
In the words of the coach, no matter how much pounds you lose, as long as your body shape has not changed qualitatively, you will still see a fat man.
Diet makes Ajuan malnourished and has a bad temper, but the weight loss effect is not obvious.
At the advice of the weight loss class customer service, Ajuan chose to undergo a gastric bypass surgery to reduce her appetite, but she also lost her sense of taste.
This is undoubtedly a huge blow to Ajuan who has the dream of a chef.
has appeared many times in the movie "Let us look towards a better self together". Does weight loss really make us more perfect?
As people's tolerance for "fat" becomes less and less, and their admiration for "thin" is becoming more and more popular, even people with normal body shapes have begun to have body anxiety.
How many people, like Ajuan, have not lost weight successfully and have been trying to hurt their bodies, and how many people, although they have successfully lost weight, still have not changed their inferiority hearts? In the movie
, Ajuan also became good friends with a courier Wu Haoren, and his sunshine and optimistic gave Ajuan a lot of encouragement.
The reason why Wu Haoren encouraged Ajuan so much is because he was once an obese person, but he successfully lost weight.
It is a difficult time to lose weight, and maintain a body shape is another difficult time.
, who is prone to fat, has to go to the bathroom to induce vomiting after each meal in order to be able to cope with social gatherings normally.
I was deeply impressed by one sentence that Wu Haoren said.
"It's really hard to change the world, it's better to change yourself faster."
is really like this?
He has lost weight and has not changed much, and he is still the person with inferiority in his heart.
does not mean that there is something wrong with slimming, but we should think about why we should lose weight and why we should change our body. Is
to maintain a good health, or to evaluate others and cater to the standards set by society?
I believe that learning to accept and love your body is more important than changing yourself to adapt to others’ aesthetics.
The ambition of the movie "Big Hungry" is not only manifested in the extreme of people's mentality under a single aesthetic, but also in showing an inclusive consciousness.
is specifically reflected in the 10 minutes of the movie being deleted. This is the story of kindergarten model student Xiaoyu . Although
has been deleted, we can still find the general context from the torn plot.
Xiaoyu is a boy, but she likes to wear women's clothing .
Specific information about whether Xiaoyu is transvestite or transgender , we cannot know from the deleted movie.
He was discovered by Ajuan when he was changing into women's clothes in the toilet. After that, the two gradually opened their hearts and became friends forgetting their ages.
We have no intention of advocating support for all kinds of hobbies, but when one hobby does not harm society and the lives of others, we oppose unreasonable discrimination.
As a movie with the intention of anti-discrimination and inclusiveness of minorities, the deletion of this branch line seems very ironic.
Xiaoyu, Ajuan, and Wu Haoren are all vulnerable groups in life. Many people are used to wearing tinted glasses to label them, and even humiliate them intentionally or unintentionally.
Everyone seems to lack a kind of tolerance, which is what the movie calls for.
learn to tolerate all kinds of beauty. Thinness is beautiful, fat is also beautiful; white is beautiful, and black is also beautiful; liking the opposite sex is beautiful, and liking the same sex is also beautiful...
beauty is diverse, not unique.
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