Hi Mom Its Me Again Meme
I change my rating from 3 to 7 til the end
Watch this since heard of crazy box office in China. Take an overview of storyline highlight that it's a time travel theme. My first impression is such an old theme how can the box office be no.1? During the first hour and half, I feel it's really mediocre and storyline just so what as expected and not funny at all, it deserves a 3 is what I gave. However, things change for the last 30 minutes, unexpected is one of the reasons. But the most succeed part is it touches audience hearts for sure cuz the motherhood. I believed it's a portrait of everyone with their mom, it is thing that probably everyone would want to happen to make up the regrets and do better in their past. This movie makes that happen and give everyone a big consolation and purify our soul. Meaningful story get applaud but this one is so special. 7 is my final rating.
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Hits home, amazing storytelling
If you could go back in time, where would you go? To this question, Jia Ling answers: back to before my mom was married! Through this movie, she travels back in time to make her mom's life "better." This movie is Jia Ling's tribute to her late mother, who passed away when Jia Ling was only 19. She integrates humor to tell an incredible story. The second half of the film is what really gets the tears flowing. The story is incredibly beautiful, and the emotions are extremely raw and real. I laughed from start to end, but found myself unable to hold back tears. A mother's love for her child and a child's realization... truly a must see. I highly recommend this film!
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A good interpretation of maternal love
The movie is a good interpretation of maternal love, Maternal love is incomparable love no matter how you give back. And the structure of the movie is clever. The director wants to use this movie to dedicate her mother to make up for her regrets for her mother, just like the protagonist in the movie tries her best to make up her regrets after time travel, but finally you will find you cannot make up the maternal love no matter what you do.
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Commercial blockbuster made for Chinese market... and well done!
"Hi Mom" is based on the famous 2022 stage production that Jia Ling wrote, acted and directed about the events from her own life! The story centers on college student Jia Xiao Ling who has a hard time getting over her mother's death. In her grief, she somehow manages to travel back in time to meet her mother in 1981 and form a friendship together.
Jia Ling, Shen Teng, Michael Chen are all big stars in China and having a screenplay which allows them to show fully all their acting abilities is rare. Emotional, full of love, tender, funny, and typically Chinese! The directing was the weakest link, but it was not too bad.
Far from perfect, but highly recommended!
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I cried sooooo hard
Me at the beginning of the movie: laughing like a idiot Me at the ending of the movie: crying my eyes out. Me 3 hours after the movie: still sobbing in the shower
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Rain Will Come, And Mom Will Be Mom
The highest grossing film of 2022 so far is a sincerely crafted & emotionally uplifting story of love, loss, family, regret & wish fulfilment that centres on a mother-daughter bonding and is curated with heart & compassion. Packed with laughs yet capable of tugging the heartstrings, it is a sweet, simple & sentimental family drama that works as advertised.
Co-written & directed by Jia Ling in her directorial debut who also stars as the lead, the film uses the time travel framework only to transport itself into the past where it works on reforging the relationship between a woman & her mother. It's a safe play but the script is witty throughout and its emotional authenticity shines through, thus making it a pleasant delight for all.
Ling is fantastic throughout, both in front & behind the camera and her performance is the glue that holds this story together. Her grip on comedic elements is also spot-on for the most part. The 1980s setting plays to its strength. All supporting roles are well-drawn & finely acted. And the central relationship is captured with honesty. Still, its pacing is uneven at times and it sure is overlong.
Overall, Hi, Mom makes for a lovely tribute from a daughter to her mother and brims with all the ingredients that's required for it to be a crowdpleaser. A typical fare by all means, the film in many ways is far from the best version of itself yet its arrival is apt & fitting as it exudes a familial warmth & sense of community that many viewers lost in this raging pandemic, and it is bound to move & resonate with some of them if not all.
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So she was young too
"Hi mom" has reached the height of double-bumping reputation at the box office since the launch of the Spring Festival file. I remember seeing a movie blogger who predicted that "Hi mum" would be the dark horse of this year's Spring Festival this year. In fact, she is worth it. I have seen a lot of moving movies, but few make me cry. It can be said that I don't feel that empathy. I rarely watch movies and cry because most of the movies did not happen to me. The method moved me. The deepest feeling is that Li Huanying is so much like my mother. The reason why this movie touched me so much is not how sensational the plot is. It just portrays a complete look of my mother. My mother is like this, with sparse hair all over the roots of white hair, saving money to make my life better, she is willing to treat me unconditionally All kinds of good, after I played my temper, I still treated me well. I watched the movie with my mother. After watching the movie, when I watched my mother again, my nose suddenly became sore. I don't know how to face her now with white hair. Day after day, I am slowly growing. She is getting older and getting older. I start to be afraid of losing her. If it's really like in the movie, I will repay her when I have the ability to make money one day, and treat my mother as good as she is to me. Opportunity. I began to realize that I cannot live without her. My mother has been a part of my life since I was born. I have always thought that I am an independent child who can do everything in my life. I go to Beijing to go to school by myself. I don't need her to wash my clothes or take care of me. In my subconscious, I think I can do everything well. Outside, I did everything and took good care of myself. But when I got home, my mother would rush to help me with all kinds of things, wash my clothes, take me to class, and try my best to do it for me. For food, I don't know if she is gone one day, this will no longer be the real home when I go home, and a home without a mother will be worthless. What really resonates with is this sentence, "As far as I can remember, my mother is like a middle-aged woman." In fact, as far as I can remember, my mother looked like a middle-aged woman. I have never seen my mother look like when she was young, and I don't know that she also looks young and beautiful like mine. In my eyes, my mother will always be the mother with simple dress, short hair and square glasses. I have never seen her braided when she was young, and her fashionable appearance does not mean that she has never been young. I don't know what she was like when she gave birth to her sister, but I believe she is much older after giving birth to me, and the vicissitudes of having one more child are vividly reflected in my mother. Before I went to dance classes outside, the kids asked me if it was your grandma, and I said it was my mother. Afterwards, I began to complain about why my mother looked older than others, why she couldn't dress up better. When I grew up, I realized that she spent all the money for dressing up on me. She never forced me to go. Go to various cram schools, but as long as I want to learn, she will definitely agree to me. For more than ten years, after her cultivation, I have a talent and knowledge that makes others envy. I can't deny that my arrival has added more pressure and wrinkles to her. In fact, I also want to make my mother younger and more beautiful. Like her twenties, I want to see if she looks like me when she was young. Like. She was also mother's baby daughter. Although I haven't met my grandma, all I heard from her were the happy memories that grandma brought to her mother's growth. I never realized that she used to be cared for and grew up like she cared for me. Now the happiness my mother treats me is the happiness she has experienced. I want her own daughter to experience the same way her mother treated her. Love. I have always wondered why I am such a hater who quarrels with her for a lifetime. When I quarrel, I don't want to talk to her. But less than 10 minutes after I finished copying, I started taking a bite again, not wanting her to cook for me. I didn't want to beg her to buy me something, or I didn't get angry anymore, and I forgot what I was making. The family relationship between our mother and daughter is very wonderful. In life, big and small always like to be noisy, but in the end it is still good. She is the sharing diary of my childhood, and I want to tell her that she is a little bit big and I want to tell her that today who did not hand in homework and drank a few glasses of water... When I grew up, many things began to be separated from each other, and I began to reluctant to do it with her Daily sharing, but I every boyfriends, she actually knows who , but in order not to embarrass me, she never tells me. This is who I am now.This is us now. If I were a little older, I might return to the days of sharing accounts in my childhood. She will always be grandma's baby, and I will always be her baby. We all have our own mother's love. I don't want to do too much to contradict her or say to hurt her feelings. After all, grandma saw it in the heaven. she will hurt.
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A smartly-written laugh-out-loud comedy that will make you cry
Hi, Mom is a charming heartfelt comedy that will have you laughing and reaching for the tissues. It is the directorial debut of Chinese comedian Jia Ling and based off a popular comedic sketch she had performed on Zhejiang Television in 2016.
Jia Ling, known for performing sketches on Chinese television, writes, directs and stars as Jia Xiao Ling, who feels she has been a lifelong disappointment to her mother Li Huan Ying. When her mother dies from a fatal car accident in 2001, Jia Xiao Ling is magically transported to 1981, where she befriends her mother Li Huan Ying as a young girl.
Guilt-stricken and armed with future knowledge, Xiao Ling is determined to alter the course of her mom's life for the better.
I laughed a lot through Hi, Mom. The comedy is well-timed and moves with a Swiss watch-like precision, telling its story with gags and zingers. There are some verbal gags that would exclude people who don't speak Chinese. That said, there are a variety of gags for them to give the movie a chance. All the laughter sneakily diverts the audience's attention to the darker question of what is happening: is Jia Xiao Ling trying to erase her own existence out of guilt?
The script brilliantly subverts the audience's conventional expectations of a time-travel scenario and delivers some surprises along the way. The surprises are not focused on plot logistics, but delivers on heartwarming sentiments.
This film has set three records. It is currently the highest grossing movie worldwide of 2021, the second highest grossing non-English movie of all time and the highest grossing film ever directed by a solo female director. One could link this to the Chinese population, I think there is merit to its success beyond that.
Hi, Mom gets personal in its last third and at one point it became increasingly clear that Jia Ling, in real life, had lost her own mother in a tragic accident. A director delivering a personal message with that sheer amount of emphasis would have normally taken me out of the movie. But this particular time, it didn't. The film had already won over the audience in my theater and I too, found myself mourning for the loss of Li Huan Ying.
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A fun, if not entirely original family time travel dramedy
Releasing in its country of origin China earlier this year to great acclaim and smashing box office records along the way (entering into the top 3 highest grossing films of all-time in the country with box office figures in excess of over USD $821,000,000), Ling Jia's directional debut, that she also co-wrote and acts in, is a likeable and breezy fantastical dramedy that borrows heavily from other outings but has enough unique smarts and sass too feel fresh and enjoyable as it goes along its way.
Heavily inspired it seems by the Back to the Future meet your parents time travel scenario and also elements from well-liked family time travel drama About Time, Hi, Mom sees Jia's underachieving daughter finally getting a chance to make her mom proud, even if it just so happens to be in an unexpected way as she travels back in time mysteriously following a potentially tragic accident.
Heading back to the early 80's where colored TV's were the new fad and volleyball tournaments were the main concern, Hi, Mom takes Jia back to a time and place where the good times seemed to be flowing and the film finds a nice groove here between pure comedy, sentimentality and also romance as (again much like Back to the Future) Jia tries to ensure everyone that needs to fall in love does fall in love so she's not somehow get erased from existence before she had the chance too be born.
The film's biggest problems do stem from these moments that all feel borrowed from other films, nothing feels truly unique about Hi, Mom, it feels more like a greatest hits collection of elements of films we've already seen and already fallen in love with, even if the China location and Chinese sentiments give a fresh spin on otherwise Hollywoodized staples.
This isn't enough to completely dampen the experience however as it's not hard to see why so many audience members fell in love with this fun, entertaining and well-meaning affair.
Another key element to the film working despite feeling like a feature without its own identity is the charm of Ling Jia as a performer. Feeling like a naturally likeable and relatable performer, this film, which was born out of Jia crafting a tribute to her late mother, sees her give it her all as she takes us the viewers on a journey that will be recognizable for anyone with strong parental connections and has a global spanning feeling that should ensure this Chinese hit finds an audience across a range of nationalities.
Final Say -
A likeable if not exactly groundbreaking globally appealing comedy, Hi, Mum is a lot of fun and one of the most easily accessible Chinese films in some time with Ling Jia likely to become one of the biggest properties in the Asia market over the next few years.
3 blind shoppers out of 5.
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Hi, Mom
A tear quencher, you can easily tell how much this film means to Jia Lin. However, apart from the ending, while the rest of the film is funny, it is very much in the mold of recent Chinese comedies, and it is greatly helped out by a very strong supporting cast. The last 10 or so minutes is not an easy accomplishment though, it is very much a career and lifetime defining moment for someone to pour this much personal emotions on film. Accomplishing this is perhaps more important than any amount of box office for Jia.
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A movie for all mother
It's can be done better as this first time Jia ling directing this movie, so there's some flaw in it. Unnessary scene and little built-in character in supporting actor. But it's still don't bother me when it come to the mother and daughter part. It touching and loving.it's show the mum love is the greatest in the world.
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A tender film about a mother and daughter.
The plot is very humorous, the love between mother and daughter is also reflected incisively and vividly.But there are some details that deserve a little bit more refinement. There's a little bit of emotional sublimation, but there's still a little bit of lack of feeling, you know, the smooth feeling of the movie.
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laugh and cry, very touch movie
qqml 4 December 2021
An ordinary family, both mom and daughter traveled back time and trying to change their destination but ended up enjoying the happy time together. It has a somewhat surprising ending. However, the only bad thing is also in the ending. The main character (daughter) cries too much. The technique using lots of cries and music to arouse audience's emotion is common in many Chinese movies. If the ending could be improved, this could be a near perfect movie. Although I feel this movie is more of the self-entertainment by the Chinese movie professionals, it is of the few top-quality Chinese movies.
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Touching and funny, with an unexpected twist
The movie starts off almost like a girl's version of Back to Future without any scifi. The cast include some major comedians who deliver a lot of funny moments. Gradually the movie will look deeper and deeper into the love between a daughter and her mother, as well as meaning of parenthood.
The movie almost ends like any time travel film until the twist comes. I did not really see it coming although I had questions and assumed they were "plot holes". I am pleased that the questions are addressed and story makes sense. The film further voices what parents want for their children via the mother character. The theme of love, parenthood/motherhood and family are nicely developed.
You will enjoy it if you like time travel, but you may love it for what is more.
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Can someone help me find a place to watch this movie?
My wife is Chinese andI've looked everywhere online to watch it but i can't find anywhere?? I'll pay to rent it if i have to, but that doesn't seem possible. Youtube had it up but then pulled it down - Can someone help me?
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Great Ending
Warning: Spoilers
To be quite honest, I skipped some parts while watching it, the first half was so so, the second half was ok-ish, but unlike the first half the second half had some unexpected developments, still not as impressed as the first time-travel movie they made, at least to me, a little bit boring.
However, the ending was great, and solve the very first question I guess everyone will encounter with at the beginning of this travel. How did her mother recognize her as cousin in the first place? I like this plot twist, it not only fixes the entire plot hole, but at most important, shows the unconditional love from her mother, very brilliant.
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Emotional movie but plot feels little incomplete
Not giving this movie a 10/10 doesn't mean I don't adore this movie. It is very funny while emotional. But might be because the director is new to movie, some parts of the plot feels little bit incomplete.
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Seriously? Mom!
One of the strongest dark horses in theaters during this year's Chinese New Year-Spring Festival holidays is this high-concept dramedy adapted from the director's own original sketch. You'd almost forget "Hi, Mom" is actually the director's debut direction since its whole set-up, conflicts and pay-offs are purely smooth and effective. Not too careful, yet not over-the-top, the humor and emotions in the film are just real and well-balanced in a way consistent with its tone, and that's probably why people laugh and shed a tear or two, (or lots of tears) towards the end of the movie. And....be prepared to expect more tears if you come out of theater finding your mom just leaving you a message.
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Sweet Movie Based on a True Story
Many can relate to this story of a mother who's sacrificed everything or lived a hard life her whole life and a daughter who feels like she hasn't lived up to her mother's expectations or hasn't done enough to lift her family up. What if you could meet your mother before you were even born?
Knowing the background of this movie due to my mother who made me watch this movie with her, I think this movie would've been weaker without that information on the two lead actresses. They both struggled to break into the big screen, but toiled together for several years until their big break came in the form of this movie. At times, the plot of Hi, Mom was a bit predictable (you see similar tropes when characters travel back in time), but once you accept that it's less plot-driven so much as driven by the main characters' interactions with each other, you can appreciate that Ling Jia directed, wrote and acted in this movie dedicated to her mother. I definitely shed some tears at the end and would recommend this to anyone who doesn't mind a bit of a sentimental movie.
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Incredible movie
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What a incredible movie.Ling Jia is a good comedienne in China. I can't believe that this is her first time directing a movie,it's perfect!
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All about the soft spot called MOM
I cannot rate it with my rational judgment, cause it hit me in my softest spot. It's hard for those who have been in Chinese family culture to not have high emotional empathy with the characters.
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Big smile, Big tears
Very few films brings a smile to my face and tears aswell. This did it for me. Eventhough I have not lived in that era, nor in China at that time, but it captured the nostalgic feeling very well. The story line appears to be very random, but it has a sense of flow to it, and the eventual plot twist hit me like a brick. Wonderful family movie!
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Touching story about a mother's love
China has implemented one child policy since 1980.
From the movie you call feel the whole love dedicated to the only child from a mother. She loves her kid unconditionally and wants her to be healthy, happy and be herself, she accepts her kid for what she is.
I think the movie try to deliver the message to parents in China (and the whole world), that a happy and healthy kid is more important that his/her materialistic achievements in this world.
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