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《好东西》除了女性主义的中产喜剧给人印象最深刻的是创作者面对集体记忆的良知。尽管片子从未直接阐述“王铁梅为什么不做记者了”，但总能在细节里寻得麦格芬之物的云云：小叶家里种菜与对速食食品的囤积癖来自上海封城的后怕，王铁梅背着momo来到吟唱《明天会更好》的人群中（背景是警笛的闪烁），海报中的名人cos是今年在巨鹿路已被禁止的上海万圣节。更直白的政治指涉聚焦于集体主义的培训营——学校，而结尾live house与文艺汇演的平行剪辑将它的意图变得更直白，反对举报与提倡个人的思想和自由，还有面对游戏规则所必备的勇气——这些一同构成了作为一名合格记者所应有的素养，只是在长达三年的失职与失信后，记者的职能不再，于是她放弃了伟大，去做一个简简单单的好人、好妈妈、好东西。

Review by Charlotteee :P ★★★★★ Liked

perhaps the best contemporary feminist film in China????

A commercial film? Yes.  
A comedy? Yes.  
But it’s not just a new type of chick flick — it’s simply a film for half of the world’s population.

also really love the mother-daughter relationship depicted in this film, come across a beautifully written comment from Weibo, so touching:

"So many inheritance relationships in patriarchal systems—sons inherit their fathers' surnames, houses, and wealth, all of which are external possessions. But daughters inherit something truly belonging to their mothers: their reading habits, writing talent, sense of style, menstrual cycles, menopause, and even severe myopia..."

Review by Milesware ★★★½ Liked

A feminist piece in the most classical sense, Her Story is a work doused, unashamedly, in eager functionalist writing, one that understands, and fully embraces its script's overwrought nature. Shao always brings a unique sense of artificiality to her world - a specific constructedness that inspires a Fellini-esque optimism. This is where Shao casts her spell. She's a trickster, juggling between artifice and authenticity, so that, however overt she may be with her message, it never feels contrived. It is a Shanghai that is made deliberately more polished, more vibrant, yet definitively real and grounded - just like Shao's characters, who feel so decidedly written and symbolic but, at the same time, deeply flawed and intensely human. 7/10.

2024 Ranked

Review by L1amPayne ★★★★½ Liked

a love letter to every pathological people pleaser

Review by mmcc ★★★★ Liked

Easy to understand the success of this romantic drama, given its nuanced handling of contemporary social questions surrounding the place of women in a patriarchal world, bringing forcefully to the imagination the vision of a world that takes for granted the reality of the alternative and the conditions for its possibility.

Yet, in of what brings this to life, it is the coordinates of pre-code comedies, such as Design for Living, Hawksian works such as Bringing Up Baby and the works of Lubitsch and their slapstick that allow for it to feel tapped into a history of societal confrontation that can be self-aware without being histrionic, affective while eschewing the cloying and intelligent but never didactic. And what other…

Review by akiradontbeblue ★★★★

the best chinese film in 2024. i couldn’t help but smile at so many moments—this movie is like a metaphor for our generation. the structure’s all over the place, but it flows like breath, scattered yet still resonant, like it’s pulling at something deep inside. we’re all breathing this in, sharing it together. just thinking about the fact that this film exists and knowing more like it will come, reflecting our generation, makes it feel so rare and soft, like something precious we can hold onto.

this film keep reminds of that line, “I don’t want the wisdom of deep love or your meaning,” but instead, choosing to just stand by, observing love before it even begins, before it even…

Review by Melody ★★★★★ Liked

前夫看了上野千鹤子，小马看了每一场访谈（实际上并没有），他们成了女权表演艺术家，但是女儿真的看了她的每一篇新闻稿，铭记在心，甚至精确到年份
比之“爱情神话”更加犀利，视角也转向了女主角，昨天还在说“爱情神话”是我近几年在院线看的最好的国产片，但是看完“好东西”我想说，这部电影绝对是真正的好东西，推荐每一个女性都去看
支持女导演，希望能有更多的女导演，才能看到真正的女性的表达
PS：女儿上的小学是艺辉实验小学（一些彩蛋），以及宋佳和钟楚曦在本片真的拉感好重！

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I flew to China just to watch this, and it absolutely delivered. A sharp, grounded take on modern feminist comedy, with slice-of-life dialogue that thoughtfully unpacks themes of womanhood and feminism. It’s high-level stuff—seeing through life’s tedium and joy, embracing both. People compare it to Barbie, but this goes deeper. The characters may lean archetypal, but Her Story finds warmth and resonance in the everyday, far more moving in its quiet humanity.

Review by moobu ★★★★½ Liked

在破旧喷泉边讨论理想的编辑部，背景板里送花的男同爱侣，比起班干部私人作风更在意学生以此举报的小学老师，街边围唱《明天会更好》的年轻人，鼓励小孩上台但也容许她恐惧地躲在柜子里的乐队，一座城市的文明肌理得以如此构建，实在幸运。宋佳真是天选前妻姐，看完整个人都调理好了。

邵编剧艺辉导演，你和你的作品已经创造出新的正典了。

Review by crhead ★★★★½ Liked

My heart is so full walking out of 好东西. It deserves all the praises in the world. I don’t the last time a mainstream Chinese film made me so unreservedly proud. 谢谢你们。

PS. 宋佳 wearing a black hoodie, rust barrel pants, smoking a cig while chasing away a stalker on a half Segway is such a strong look that I think we should make it into a Halloween costume (well, don’t call it that in Shanghai I guess)

Review by Landzico ★★★★ Liked

懂那些说像《芭比》的影评，二者都从旧坞的神经喜剧那借鉴了很多抛弃逻辑的、纯粹胡闹的设定，丝毫不觉得本片就可以因此被贴上“脱口秀”亦或是“小品”的恶意标签。既然我们可以谅解如今大型商业片里只为取悦视觉、满足原始快感的段落，为什么不拥抱本片里取材于生活的、疯疯癫癫又无理取闹的瞬间呢，我相信比起前者，它们的情感倾泻大于谄媚。不过存在太多以mv作桥的段落，不是说这不可以，只是大多数时刻会显得无力。

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I laughed, I understood and I respected but it looked and felt like Netflix USA