Movie Notes

Maxine 2022-02-04 08:25:46

Unlike most people who go to music, I go to cure depression.

The protagonist is a young girl who is treated like a mental hospital because of her addiction to food. Like most people, she likes music, likes to have fun, and likes to look at handsome guys. However, because of her obesity, these hobbies not only insulated her, but also made her feel inferior, cared about other people's opinions, and feared that others would laugh at her. Four years of treatment in a mental hospital made her so disconnected from her normal life that she was reluctant to leave the hospital to face a new life.

When trying to escape back to the mental hospital, the patient's encouragement

The film starts from Fei Rui's discharge from the hospital, to pick up her single mother. This unreliable woman also prepared a surprise gift for her - the prisoner who escaped from the place where he was repatriated is also a male dog who is in heat everywhere. Enai wakes up the heroine at 5 in the morning...

On the way home from the hospital, Fei Rui met her former best friend and her new friends. The good friend (politely) invited Fei Rui to join their small group. Fei Rui saw this as an opportunity to re-enter society. At the same time, I fell in love at first sight with the handsome guy in the team who likes music, YY all kinds of little yellow texts.

The first difficulty encountered in integrating into the group is that a good friend is going to hold a housewarming party, but it is a swimwear field. Fei Rui finally mustered up the courage to go to the fitting room with her friend to buy swimsuits, but because of her friend's unintentional action, she was wearing The newly changed bikini top was rushed to the street, and the eyes of strangers were undoubtedly a corpse for Fei Rui, who was not confident at all. She was afraid that she would become a joke after everyone's dinner.

When she tried to retreat back to the mental hospital, her former patients encouraged her to face life. She was their hope and role model... Fei Rui adopted the second strategy, participating in a party, but she was determined not to go into the water. Although the bystanders protect themselves, they cannot integrate into the collective.

A kind reminder of good friends inviting Fei Rui to join the group

Fei Rui did not do anything else, bravely took off the disguised bath towel, faced his own shortcomings, and issued an invitation to the members of the group:

Humor, cooperation, firm (goal), (seemingly) confidence, self-deprecation is a way to get out of self-isolation and back into the collective

With the encouragement of the psychiatrist, we are all quite strong and encourage each other

The second episode touch

The boy that Rui had a crush on suddenly approached her and asked her out to play

and kissed her

Sudden love has another meaning for Rui - there are still people in the world who love her, and she deserves to be loved

It was the affirmation she had longed for.

However, it was no surprise that when she shared the joy of love with her good sister, dressed up carefully, and waited for the second date in the restaurant with anticipation, she was disappointed. The boy didn't come to the appointment, and it was a friend who helped to tell it.

Rui fell into despair again, but to a much lesser degree than before. After a drowsy sleep, under the temptation of his mother's food, he slowly crawled out of the bed and started a new day.

Under the encouragement of his friends, Rui went to the gym where the boy worked to "invite his teacher" and accidentally discovered the truth of the missed appointment. It turned out that the boy was gay, and he was dating Rui just to try to date a girl. After finding that he could not overcome the obstacle of sexual orientation, he chose to insist on self.

When Ray asked why he didn't tell everyone about his sexuality, the boy replied:

Freedom is always relative. In a conservative and closed town, a high school boy's open derailment is undoubtedly a challenge to the mainstream values ​​of society.

Rui also asked the boy how he felt when he first saw the scar on her leg. For Rui, this scar is worse. She is fat and not confident at all. The ugly scar makes her feel inferior. On the second date, her best friend saw the scar when she was helping her choose clothes. She was very sensitive. She told her best friend to cover it with foundation, and her best friend hugged her distressedly.

Coincidentally, when the boy saw the scar, he just said lightly, I guess you have been injured before.

An ugliness that Rui dare not face up to is just distress and concern in the eyes of friends. People who love her will never deliberately magnify her imperfections, but recognize, tolerate and encourage her.

With the company of family and friends, and the encouragement of a psychiatrist, Rui has also become more courageous to face himself

Rui didn't dare to look in the mirror at first
Ray finally starts looking in the mirror and recognizes her beauty
I like this sentence the most, self-recognition is the hardest and easiest, and it takes us a lifetime to find it. It doesn't matter if you haven't found it now, or if you find it and then lose it, we have a lifetime

PS, I envy the girls' boldness and openness to sex in the film. Well, it's just pure envy, that's all~

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Extended Reading
  • Maegan 2022-04-23 07:05:57

    What is youth? What is the tune of a crush? Finn please marry me!

  • Lottie 2022-03-24 09:03:55

    boring. . . . I have to keep looking for the background sound

My Mad Fat Diary quotes

  • Rae: I am a body dysmorphic without the dysmorphic. I am a bulimic without the sick. I am fat.