{"id":617567,"date":"2024-04-18T19:57:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T16:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-megahit-chinese-boxing-movie-needs-more-punch\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T19:57:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T16:57:33","slug":"watch-megahit-chinese-boxing-movie-needs-more-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-megahit-chinese-boxing-movie-needs-more-punch\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Megahit Chinese Boxing Movie Needs More Punch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3dfc8738f0d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3dfc8738f0d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-megahit-chinese-boxing-movie-needs-more-punch\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Megahit_Chinese_Boxing_Movie_Needs_More_Punch%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Megahit Chinese Boxing Movie Needs More Punch&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-megahit-chinese-boxing-movie-needs-more-punch\/#%E2%80%9CMegahit_Chinese_Boxing_Movie_Needs_More_Punch%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Megahit Chinese Boxing Movie Needs More Punch&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Megahit_Chinese_Boxing_Movie_Needs_More_Punch%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Megahit Chinese Boxing Movie Needs More Punch&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CMegahit_Chinese_Boxing_Movie_Needs_More_Punch%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Megahit Chinese Boxing Movie Needs More Punch&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Macho sports-movie tropes meet with bright chick-flick framing to curious effect in \u201cYOLO,\u201d either an ostensible boxing drama that doesn\u2019t pick up the gloves until the third act, or a misfit romcom that takes a late and unusual turn toward transformational self-help territory. Chinese audiences have been delighted by either formulation, as Jia Ling\u2018s second feature as director-star \u2014 following 2021\u2019s popular time-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> comedy \u201cHi, Mom\u201d \u2014 has racked up the year\u2019s second-highest global gross so far, mostly on the strength of its domestic receipts. That\u2019s been enough to secure it an international release through Sony, but \u201cYOLO\u201d is likelier to bemuse outside viewers unfamiliar with Jia\u2019s persona as a celebrity co<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>n \u2014 and her extreme weight-loss journey while making the film, a narrative that powered its publicity on home turf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cYOLO\u201d is itself a work of cultural translation, adapted as it is from Japanese director Masaharu\u00a0Take\u2019s well-regarded 2014 drama \u201c100 Yen Love,\u201d which starred Sakura Ando as a downtrodden Tokyo woman reclaiming her life through pugilism. Taking its tonal and aesthetic cues from American independent cinema, Take\u2019s film was stoic, gritty and only occasionally spiked with mordant humor. Though Jia and her four co-writers stick to the narrative template of the original, they wrest this formerly low-key story into broader, brasher comic territory, complete with a surfeit of pop-scored montages and clumsy physical gags. The result has nothing like \u201c100 Yen Love\u2019s\u201d scr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y power, though as a star vehicle for its appealing and plainly intrepid maker, it works well enough. It\u2019s not inconceivable that Hollywood could get the remake memo this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The film opens <em>in medias res <\/em>as Leying (Jia) psyches herself up for her first big bout \u2014 crucially showing us her hands but not the rest of her body \u2014 before rewinding a couple of years to introduce us to a Leying who looks significantly less match-ready. An unemployed, plus-size college graduate whose life has hit a dead end at age 30, she spends her days holed up in her parents\u2019 apartment, moving only to shift her position on the couch. At home, she squabbles with her pushy Type-A sister Ledan (Zhang Xiaofei), while her TV-producer cousin Doudou (Yang Zi) attempts to put her forward for a demeaning reality show. Away from her family, things are no better, as she discovers her notional boyfriend (Qiao Shan) and notional best friend (Li Xueqin) are not just having an affair, but planning their wedding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Determined to change her life, Leying takes a waitressing job and leaves home, renting a small apartment with help from her gently supportive mother (a lovely Zhao Haiyan, underplaying more than most). It takes this 129-minute movie an awfully long time to get through this essential setup, and still Leying\u2019s self-reinvention is some way off. Much of a sluggish second act is consumed with her halting, ultimately toxic relationship with hard-up boxing coach Hao Kun (Lei Jiayin), who takes her on as an unlikely student. The feelings she develops for him aren\u2019t returned in equal proportion, but they move in together nonetheless, as Leying becomes an emotional punching bag for Hao Kun\u2019s frustrations over his own thwarted sporting dreams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    There\u2019s potentially a whole film in this pained, conflicted anti-romance, but \u201cYOLO\u201d treats it as merely another narrative hurdle to be cleared before it belatedly reaches its feelgood crux \u2014 when Leying finally strikes out on her own and hits the gym hard. Cue a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of training montages, as Leying sheds over 100 pounds over the course of a year, and eagerly fashions herself as a featherweight. It\u2019s a remarkable before-our-eyes metamorphosis, and as the woman who underwent it in real life, Jia shoots and presents this passage in an understandably proud, rousing register. Yet the film\u2019s emphatic celebration of a character\u2019s physical change, after having played her size for comedy earlier on, somewhat compromises the intended air of uplift. Viewers can take what message they want from Leying\u2019s progression, but not all will find body positivity in her less-is-more makeover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Spiritual and psychological well-being is the longer-term goal here, and \u201cYOLO\u201d does bring Leying closer to that goal via a poignant sporting climax that strikes a more realistic note than much of the preceding drama. Still, it\u2019s an outcome we could have called far earlier in proceedings, well before Jia really shows her hand by sampling Bill Conti\u2019s \u201cRocky\u201d theme to soundtrack her character\u2019s training. As a director, she has little use for nuance and less still for subtlety. An an actor, she corrects those deficits to some extent: There\u2019s a quiet, believable integrity to Leying that pulls her through the film\u2019s more crass or condescending interludes and its shiny, pastel-hued styling. Anyone familiar with \u201c100 Yen Love\u201d may well find themselves missing that film\u2019s shadows and crevices. But it\u2019s precisely \u201cYOLO\u2019s\u201d lighter tone and heavier hand that has made it a multimillion-dollar baby.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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