The video has ended.

Shang Yechu: "..."

Gu Wenhua: "..."

Shang Yechu's fingers trembled slightly as she subconsciously clicked on the comments section. The video had been posted forty minutes earlier, but it had already received numerous comments.

[I knew it wouldn't be simple after watching half of it, and I immediately came to Pi Station for an analysis after finishing it. Old Liu certainly doesn't disappoint.]

[I think the uploader wants to get shot! [laughing]]

Am I the only one who noticed it on the first try? [laughing and crying emoji] What an obvious hint!

[I noticed it on the first try +1]

[The director is young and hot-tempered, so he filmed with a bit too much passion. But young people are like that [eating melon emoji]; as they get older, their sharpness fades, and they can't make films like that anymore.]

[Xiao Ye represents enlightening the people, Huang Feizhang represents strengthening military power, Fatty represents propaganda, and Sister Hong represents self-monitoring. None of them can be dispensed with.]

This film requires a certain level of life experience to understand; I watched it twice before I even grasped a fraction of its essence.

A new star is rising in the world of meme culture [doge emoji]

[Each of the five main characters held a book. However, the book held by the youngest girl was blank. The female lead gave the little girl a pen and had her draw, and the book suddenly had words, saving the little girl. This plot point is quite meaningful, which Lao Liu missed.]

[A film about idealists; now that I'm older, watching these kinds of films always leaves me with a sense of melancholy.]

[Looks like a commercial film, but is actually an art film; looks like a fantasy film, but is actually a realistic film; looks like a comedy, but is actually a historical film [doge emoji]]

[It's too much of an artistic choice.]

[As expected, the atmosphere on Pixiv is much better; most people there have brains. Those idiots on Tieba are practically tearing the film apart. They're saying they don't like the female lead, and why isn't Xiao Ye a man? If Xiao Ye were a man, and he were entangled with Hong Jie and her daughter, wouldn't it be just like a Hollywood blockbuster? The director chose a woman as the lead precisely to show that this isn't a traditional adventure film, but has a deeper meaning!]

[Ye Chu is an investor; she wasn't chosen as the lead actress by the director. She chose the director to be the director [laughing emoji]. No offense intended, bro, just pointing out that you've got cause and effect backwards.]

The ending of "The King of Nutshells" was amazing; it gave me goosebumps. It all makes sense now!

It's easy to understand why Lingling doesn't have a newbie protection period; she's just a symbol. Don't treat her like a person; treat her like an object.

[It really comes down to Lao Liu and the audience at Pi Station. I went to see it with my family, and afterward, I asked around, but no one figured out the film's metaphors. I tried explaining it to them, but they didn't understand either, which was really frustrating... In the end, I just agreed with them, saying it was just a regular comedy, nothing more.]

[Unfortunately, I can't post images in the Pi website's comment section, but you can check my posts. I just finished watching this movie in my second year of junior high and shared my thoughts on WeChat Moments. Unfortunately, it wasn't very popular, and several friends said I was over-interpreting it.]

You can never wake someone who's pretending to be asleep; it's not that they don't understand, they're just playing dumb. [humorous]

The flowers bloom the same every year, but the people change year after year! Sigh, I hope fewer and fewer people can truly understand this film.

【…………】

Her fingers unconsciously scrolled through the comments. After a long silence, Shang Yechu turned her head shakily to look at Gu Wenhua: "So that's what you think."

Gu Wenhua's face was blank, as if he had witnessed Mercury colliding with Earth: "Is this what I think?"

Shang Yechu left the comments section, and somehow, on a whim, added the video to her favorites. She even cached it with a casual swipe.

His lips trembled slightly, but Shang Yechu couldn't help but ask, "You have... uh, political ambitions?"

Gu Wenhua murmured, "You saw through it, but you're pretending to be stupid?"

"I," Shang Yechu stammered, repeating, "did I see it?"

Did she notice?

Shouldn't she have noticed something?