Fly With Me (飛女正傳) is a Hong Kong local comedy drama. Many light-hearted plots consistently and deliberately designed to amuse and provoke audience’s laughter by exaggeration the situation, action and outlook etc. comedy drama always puts much more focus on individual character. In Fly With Me, 梁巧芝 (蔡少芬) is the main female character. She is a 35-aged working woman. She can not classify as pretty, her appearance is okay but she has an extraordinarily large rump. Besides, she can convert herself from a normal people to be a superwoman, Janet Bin. Having exaggerating outlook and plots truly fit the element of comedy drama. It can entertain and provoke enjoyment of audience easily.
Even though Fly With Me is a comedy drama, it also state out some Hong Kong’s situation nowadays. 梁巧芝 is a vice-manager of a big bank. She is independent, has great self confident, high education level. She thinks herself as a strongman. She does not have boyfriend, plus her criteria for choosing her partner is very high, she hopes her partner in the future can fit or match every aspect of her. However, she is a choosy, acrimonious and aloof, which similar to the港女 very much. It is a common phenomenon in Hong Kong nowadays. Many girls in Hong Kong just like梁巧芝, they get a high social status, but they are hard to find a partner as well. In this drama, it surely establishes the identity and ideology of local female currently; therefore, Fly With Me definitely gets local audience’s favor and taste.
Though this drama fits local audience very much, this also has stereotypes in it. There are many young, pretty and good body shape woman in the same company with 梁巧芝, they get more advantages compared with he
r. One the juvenile female which is junior than 梁巧芝, but she gets an excellent body figure, she can promote faster than 梁巧芝. 梁巧芝wants to have plastic surgery with enlarging her breast in order to increase her attractiveness. It enforced represent a society that appearance is more important than person’s strength. It get a stereotype that the ugly female will not success in the real world. It maintains a sharp boundary that if you have a good looking appearance then you will have more accomplishment. It surely enforce the culture of ideal body image of women, ‘slim is good!’, ‘you should have an excellent body shape!’ in the society.
Media, especially television, that everybody often reach it. It usually convey the hegemonic ideology to the public, it is a social construction of ‘reality’. I hope the media can get a balance on the element of comedy and the social ideologies, as it influences the society enormously.
Fung Cho Yi DONNA 10350150
r. One the juvenile female which is junior than 梁巧芝, but she gets an excellent body figure, she can promote faster than 梁巧芝. 梁巧芝wants to have plastic surgery with enlarging her breast in order to increase her attractiveness. It enforced represent a society that appearance is more important than person’s strength. It get a stereotype that the ugly female will not success in the real world. It maintains a sharp boundary that if you have a good looking appearance then you will have more accomplishment. It surely enforce the culture of ideal body image of women, ‘slim is good!’, ‘you should have an excellent body shape!’ in the society.Media, especially television, that everybody often reach it. It usually convey the hegemonic ideology to the public, it is a social construction of ‘reality’. I hope the media can get a balance on the element of comedy and the social ideologies, as it influences the society enormously.
Fung Cho Yi DONNA 10350150
You review is divided into three main parts, firstly the introduction of comedy drama, secondly the images of Hong Kong women, lastly the reflection on the media’s role in constructing gender stereotypes. The flow is clear and the argument is reasonable. Nevertheless, each part deserves more exploration and in-depth analysis. In particular, your described Yvonne (Ada Choy) as a “港女”, the connotations of this term needed to be elaborated and used carefully.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the content of the drama, I found the character of Dr Kan ( Mose Chan) very interesting. He insists on the “golden ratio” of body figure, but yet he concerns inner beauty very much. What are the implications behind this “mixed” ideology? Other students writing on this drama may consider answering this question.