The scene changed and appeared in a villa in the mountains.
A middle-aged man in a suit got out of the car, took a key from under a flower pot next to the house, and opened the door.
The house was quiet and the living room was a little messy, as if it hadn't been tidied for a while.
The man walked to a studio on the second floor. The curtains were drawn in the room, so he couldn't see anything. The room looked a little eerie.
The man carefully turned on the light, and everything in the room came into view.
There were messy drawing boards standing all around, and the paintings on them were large, distorted and blurred blocks of color. Various kinds of ink were scattered on the ground. In the middle of the floor, Yang Xingyuan's hands and hair were covered with ink. He lay on the ground with his eyes closed, not knowing whether he was dead or alive.
Seeing this scene, the man looked nervous. He quickly walked up to him and pushed him and probed his breath: "Jiang Hua? Jiang Hua! Wake up!"
"Hmm..." Jiang Hua wiped his face, as if he was suddenly awakened from a dream.
After waking up, Jiang Hua was still in the studio, looking listless, holding a bowl of cereal in his hand and drinking it in sips.
The manager-looking man asked Jiang Hua: "The last time I contacted you was a day and a half ago. Did you not eat anything before that?"
Jiang Hua didn't answer him directly. He looked lazy and seemed to have no interest in anything.
After a pause, the manager asked, "Are you still thinking about that painting?"
This time Jiang Hua reacted and stopped.
"You continue eating." The manager said, and walked to a wall of the studio.
The wall was clean, with only a painting in the center.
The painting is gray and has a low saturation, it can even be said to be blurry. All you can see is a distorted back that looks like a human but not quite.
"You clearly painted this picture yourself. I don't understand why you are so obsessed with it. This is the kind of treatment that none of your other works have ever received. Even the sunset painting that won the Monet Prize three years ago didn't have this kind of treatment... And no matter how I look at it, it's just a silhouette..."
Before the manager could finish his words, Jiang Hua interrupted him and suddenly became excited: "No, I didn't draw it, it already existed, it just came from my hands!"
"I have..." He excitedly placed the bowl on the floor, walked into the room, and pointed at several paintings: "I have drawn so many paintings to explain the feeling it wants to convey..."
At this point, he fell into anxiety: "Even if I can explain less than one percent, but look at it again, can't you really feel it?!"
He walked to the gray silhouette painting again, revealing an obsessed and fanatical expression.
The manager glanced at the broken and distorted paintings in the room, shook his head and persuaded: "Try some other styles, Jiang Hua, this weird style is too advanced, not everyone can appreciate it. I think you are too tired recently, and your mental state is not very good. I know a psychologist..."
"Get lost!" Jiang Hua angrily drove the manager away. "All you care about is how much my paintings can sell for. You can't understand these things at all! You are becoming less and less spiritual. At least you could understand my paintings before."
"Okay, okay... don't be angry, and remember to eat on time." The manager left helplessly.
This section reminds the audience of the last scene seen in the trailer. From here, we can also judge that the mental state of the painter Jiang Hua, played by Yang Xingyuan, has problems and he will be admitted to a mental hospital in the future.
The scene returns to the mental hospital again.
Huo Yin, who was wearing a white coat, was found to be a mental patient, which made Yin Tianlei, played by Gu Yun, speechless.
"Why can you walk around the hospital freely, unlike us who are restricted to a fixed area?"
"I'm half a doctor." Although Yin Tianlei's case was unremarkable, Huo Yin seemed to be very interested in him. He had been following him since he was admitted to the hospital, like a real psychologist observing a patient.
"Half a doctor?"
"Yes." Huo Yin raised his chin slightly and said conceitedly, "I can solve many patient problems that they can't solve. This is enough to buy me a little freedom."
As the rhythm of the music gradually grew, Huo Yin took Yin Tianlei to meet several patients she thought were "interesting". She knew them very well and knew them like the back of her hand.
The next scene is a scene that has appeared in the trailer. In his daily interactions, Yin Tianlei comes into contact with Ye Yao, a girl who can sense the threat of humans, Tong Le, who introduces four-dimensional vision to everyone he meets, and so on...
It was obvious that after a while, Yin Tianlei, wearing a hospital gown, welcomed the first visit from the outside world in the activity room.
When Yin Tianlei saw the visitor, his expression was a bit complicated, with a mixture of sarcasm and sneer.
The visitor walked calmly to Yin Tianlei who was sitting in the corner and said, "For the sake of our friendship for so many years, Tianlei, don't be stubborn. As long as you are willing to sign the equity transfer agreement, I will talk to your uncle and I will definitely let you leave here."
"I am a real member of the Yin family. Those are the shares my mother left me. Lu Jie, you are really my good brother. Have you forgotten that it was my mother who adopted you? If Zhou Jiaming hadn't had the courage back then, I would really suspect that you were his illegitimate child."
The man named Lu Jie had an ugly expression when he heard this: "Tian Lei, Auntie has passed away. Uncle Zhou is the real head of the Yin family. I am an employee of Yin's, so of course I can only listen to him."
"I see. You are the son of money. You will listen to whoever gives you the most money, right? You even teamed up with Zhou Jiaming to frame me for being mentally ill."
When saying this, Yin Tianlei glanced at Huo Yin who was not far away. This distance was enough for her to hear their conversation.
The audience finally understood after seeing this. No wonder Yin Tianlei has not shown any abnormal mental symptoms so far and his behavior is incompatible with other mentally ill people, because he is originally a normal person and was framed here.
Following the perspective, the audience's attention was also focused on Huo Yin.
Huo Yin said that she is "half a doctor". Now that she knows all this, will she help Yin Tianlei leave here?
Lu Jie here acted fearless. He glanced at Huo Yin, who should have heard their conversation, and looked away indifferently. He didn't seem to worry at all that the other people here would find out that Yin Tianlei was a normal person.
Having said that, he stopped trying to argue: "It has come to this, what are you holding on to? Uncle Zhou only has you as his son. As long as you are willing to change your surname, everything will be yours after he dies."
"Sign it, and you can get out of here."
Having said that, Lu Jie took out his cigarette and lighter, and seemed ready to light a cigarette.
At this moment, Huo Yin, who had been watching this scene, suddenly spoke.
"I advise you not to light a fire here."
Lu Jie now looked very high-spirited. When he heard this, he didn't care at all. Instead, he looked at her provocatively and raised his lighter conspicuously.
“Bang!”
I pressed the lighter trigger and a cluster of flames came out from it.
At this moment, time slowed down and the perspective shifted to a silent strong man in the activity room.
He had appeared in several scenes before, looking like an autistic patient. He was very numb and nothing could arouse his concern.
The moment he saw the flame, his drooping eyes suddenly raised, veins bulged, and his eyes were instantly filled with red bloodshot.
The view was close-up on the man's face. He opened his mouth like a wild beast, revealing his clenched and sharp fangs, and pounced towards the flame in Lu Jie's hand.
When the doctors and nurses in the activity room saw the man's movements, they all looked panicked and wanted to go up and grab him.
In slow motion, every subtle expression of fear on their faces was captured clearly.
The next moment, time returned to normal.
"Bang! Boom!"
The folding table was blown away, and the man pounced on Lu Jie. Amid Lu Jie's scream of fear, he roared like a beast and then bit his neck.
"ah--!"
Many viewers couldn't help laughing when seeing this scene. Lu Jie, a standard bad guy, was pretending to be cool in front of the protagonist the previous second, and then he was slapped in the face. It made people laugh and brought a sense of comfort.
Many film critics focused on the operation of slowing down time at this location, and admired Wei Lan's mastery in performing this kind of scene, which can be seen in both "Swordsman" and "The Rural Teacher".
Yin Tianlei quickly stepped aside, as the crazy man's only target was Lu Jie.
The staff members tried to pull the burly man away in a panic, and during the process, the lighter that Lu Jie had used to light the car had already been thrown away.
Amid the chaos, Huo Yin methodically picked up the lighter, lit it with a snap, and at the same time took a glass of water from the table on the side.
"Bian Peng, Bian Peng, look here!"
Huo Yin's voice made the crazy man pause slightly. He raised his head with a mouth full of blood, his hands still tightly pinching Lu Jie's neck.
Seeing the fire in Huo Yin's hand, Bian Peng's mouth opened again, but he did not attack Huo Yin directly. Instead, he confronted her and let out a low growl from his throat.
Huo Yin held the lighter in his right hand and threw it into the water cup in his left hand.
The flame went out and a bubble gurgled out of the cup.
"It's okay, it's okay now..."
Huo Yin handed the cup of water in his hand to Bian Peng.
Bian Peng slowly reached out to take it. Amid the nervous looks of the people around him, his expression slowly calmed down. He took a sip of water in the cup with confusion, and then returned to his initial expressionless face. Without being pulled by other staff members, he stood up from Lu Jie on his own.
Lu Jie covered the blood on his neck and screamed in fear: "Doctor, call a doctor for me..."
The view zoomed out and he became the distant shot, while in the close shot were Yin Tianlei and Huo Yin who had left the activity room.
After a moment of silence, Yin Tianlei suddenly asked Huo Yin beside him: "Can you help me out?"
Huo Yin smiled and shook his head.
Yin Tianlei suddenly became a little excited: "You just heard it, I'm not sick at all!"
"Let me tell you, this Qingshan Mental Hospital is a private hospital. It doesn't have a strict system like the federal hospital. It only accepts two types of mental patients. One type has a special case, and the other type is either rich or noble. You belong to the latter. This is a treatment center, but it can also be said to be a prison."
Huo Yin laughed: "Have you never thought about it? How long have they been setting up a trap for you to be framed as mentally ill? How much money did they give to the hospital to send you here? Outside, you can still hide your identity and look for an opportunity to make a comeback, but here, there is no one within a radius of ten miles. The place that looks like a wilderness is actually full of surveillance. All the vehicles that can enter are internal vehicles of Qingshan Group."
As Huo Yin continued to tell the story, the audience's vision broadened and the distant view of the entire hospital appeared. The high-tech hospital was located in the wilderness with only one road leading directly to it. In the wilderness, one could see power grids, cameras, and carrion-eating crows.
"The reason you can't leave here is because you lost the battle for the family property, not because you are sick or not."
The scene returns to the hospital where the two were talking.
This blow made Yin Tianlei look heavy-hearted. He looked at Huo Yin and asked, "Why have you been following me all this time?"
Huo Yin only said: "You are very interesting."
Yin Tianlei was puzzled and scratched his head in pain: "You know I'm not a mental patient!"
"You seem a bit manic now."
"..." Yin Tianlei paused and suddenly asked: "Which one are you?"
"The case is special enough. You must be either rich or noble. Which one are you?"
After hearing Yin Tianlei's question, the audience suddenly reacted. Yes, Huo Yin knew so much about this place and always seemed normal. Could it be that she was in the same situation as Yin Tianlei?
From the moment of admission to the hospital, the main focus has been on the two protagonists, Huo Yin and Yin Tianlei.
Compared to other mental patients who have more or less symptoms, except for Yin Tianlei, only Huo Yin's current performance is no different from that of a normal person. This makes them look like two normal people exploring and observing this mental hospital, and also gives the audience a strong sense of substitution.
As a result, Huo Yin gave an unexpected answer.
“I am both.”
Yin Tianlei, who didn't expect this result, moved his lips but didn't say anything for a while.
Huo Yin explained without hiding anything: "Do you know about multiple personalities?"
“I actually have another personality.”
Yin Tianlei stared at Huo Yin, digested it for a moment, and subconsciously asked, "What is it like?"
Huo Yin just smiled: "You don't want to meet her."
Obviously, Chu Mo's face showed no other emotions except for a smile, but the audience who watched this couldn't help but feel a chill down their spine. Obviously, from the previous performance, Huo Yin seemed to be the most normal and reliable "mentor-like" character in the movie, but now it was discovered that the other party was actually a mental patient.
The audience's feelings of anxiety and curiosity were immediately brought to the extreme.
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