The master tape of a movie is usually a Blu-ray disc with extremely high image quality. Now there is also a lossless format uploaded to a cloud server. After the master tape is submitted for review, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television will grant the Dragon Mark for permission to screen the movie, and only then can the movie be released in theaters.
The standards for film and television censorship in this world are very strict. Content such as horror, bloodiness, and violence will not be strictly controlled. Except for some special and sensitive topics, other content can be said to be flourishing.
Mo Guangyuan's job at the General Administration is simple and unpretentious, which is to review films.
Some students may think that it is very fun to review films, as they can watch those movies that have not been released in advance. Watching movies is like work and it is easy.
But in reality, when a hobby becomes a job, it can sometimes be really torture.
First of all, there are a lot of films submitted for review every year. After all, the audience for movies shown in theaters is much larger, and many people who don’t have much access to the Internet only watch movies in theaters.
Secondly, if a movie gets the Dragon Mark and goes to theaters, it will be superior in terms of contempt, and will be more upscale than online movies that can only be played on video sites. It can also be put online on the website later to continue making money.
Finally, the threshold for making movies now is too low. At the very least, you can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, find some students from a film academy, and make a movie in three to five days.
This results in far more films entering the review department of the State Administration of Film than are seen by the general public.
Watching a good movie is a pleasure, watching a bad movie is torture.
The key is that Mo Guangyuan can’t fast forward!
Not to mention those excellent films, the worse the film is, the more likely it is to have problems in some details, such as shooting things that should not be shot and appearing scenes that should not appear. These are all things that need to be checked during the review.
Therefore, when faced with a bad movie, he not only cannot fast forward, but sometimes he has to slow it down and watch it carefully.
What's more, he is not the only one who reviews the films. Most of the films are randomly assigned. If he is unlucky, he can watch a whole month of rustic love comedies shot by eccentric people, and watch plots that only I feel sorry for Giegie, and none of them are repeated.
It's torture.
When Mo Guangyuan first entered the industry, he was excited about being able to watch those movies in advance, and he often took the initiative to work overtime to review the films.
Now, he gets off work on time and never works overtime. During his rest time, Mo Guangyuan is too lazy to even go to the cinema. He just wants to lie in bed and waste his life.
Life smoothed out his edges.
This story tells us that when a hobby becomes a career, it is sometimes not a good thing.
Today he worked normally until the afternoon, and after watching a melodramatic urban romance drama in which the heroine looked almost the same as the husky raised downstairs, he was doubly devastated mentally and physically.
After reading the ending and writing the review opinions, Mo Guangyuan picked up the thermos cup in which he had brewed wolfberry and red dates tea, unscrewed the lid, blew lightly, and took a sip.
He is only a year away from turning 30, but he has already started to maintain his health.
After chatting with his colleagues, Mo Guangyuan looked at the time.
"It's almost time to get off work, let's just pick a movie and watch the beginning."
There is still half an hour left before the end of get off work, which is not too much, but not too little either. It is not convenient to fish for half an hour in the office at this time, as it would be bad if the boss saw him. Mo Guangyuan usually just finds a movie that doesn't look like it will win the Dragon Mark, watches the first half hour, pauses, and then watches the rest the next day.
Anyway, they are all dispensable movies, and you don’t have to care about the plot. You can pause them and then continue watching them!
With a swipe of the mouse, Mo Guangyuan saw a folder.
"In the Mouth of a Madman".
"Looks a little familiar..."
Mo Guangyuan felt that the name looked familiar, so he clicked on it and looked at the information note, which showed that it was the work of a director named Lu Ban.
After checking, Mo Guangyuan discovered that this was the director and starring actor of the box office champion movie at the end of last year.
“That’s amazing.”
Mo Guangyuan said without feeling.
To be honest, movies are now work for him.
The happiness has been lost.
Moral of the story: Sometimes you may not really like your hobby.
Ordinary people, after working hard, can play games and watch movies to entertain themselves after get off work.
But if your job is to play games or watch movies, then after get off work, playing games and watching movies become an extension of work, and it is easy to lose interest. In this way, you lose the way to eliminate fatigue, become more and more depressed, and eventually explode.
Of course, there are definitely people in the world who enjoy their work as a hobby and continue to enjoy it even after get off work, but Mo Guangyuan is just an ordinary person after all.
No matter how high the box office is, he won't get a penny from it. For him, whether a movie is good or not is just part of his job and he has to fill out review comments after watching it. Mo Guangyuan hasn't truly enjoyed a movie for a long time.
"Take a look."
With this mindset, Mo Guangyuan clicked play.
After the usual opening credits, Mo Guangyuan saw a burly man with a gun in his hand, stumbling forward in a dark alley, as if being chased by something.
The camera imitates his perspective, sometimes looking back, sometimes looking to the side. Although it is just a sweep, it still allows people to see clearly that there seems to be something really wriggling in those shadows.
Just a few shots made Mo Guangyuan's attention completely focused.
He stopped the pen he was holding to record his review comments and looked at the screen intently.
The nervousness of the person on the screen was about to overflow. His eyes were bloodshot, as if he hadn't slept for many days. He was muttering some unclear words, which added to the weirdness.
"What's chasing him?"
Mo Guangyuan was a little curious.
The camera often stays behind the man, but there is only a dark and dirty alley, and the moonlight shining down does not bring any light, but makes the shadows even darker.
Mo Guangyuan seemed to have returned to his childhood. One time, he went back to his hometown and played with a few peers until late at night. He walked home alone at night. There were no street lights in the countryside at that time. It was pitch black and even his heartbeat could be heard. In the dark night, Mo Guangyuan walked back home in fear. After that, he didn't dare to turn off the lights to sleep for a long time.
This pure dark space, the fear in the confined and narrow space, comes from instinct.
Snap——
As the man fled in panic, a hand suddenly pressed on his shoulder.
Mo Guangyuan was slightly frightened by this sudden change and his body trembled.
Fortunately, the man holding his shoulders was another man. They looked like gangsters from the 1920s and 1930s, and they both had guns in their hands.
"Is something chasing you?"
The man who appeared later asked cautiously.
"Yes... those things, those things, in the shadows..."
The man who appeared first explained in a hoarse voice, and suddenly he paused.
In the camera, on the man who appears later, in the shadow of his clothes, some kind of wriggling monster is about to emerge.
Ta-ta-ta-ta——
The man who appeared first immediately opened fire, trying to kill the monsters.
The gunshots broke the silence of the night and made the movie, which had been depressing since the beginning, become noisy.
Mo Guangyuan, frightened by the gunshot, shook his shoulders again.
"That's why I hate reviewing horror movies. I just like to mess with you like this."
While mumbling, he glanced to the side to divert his attention.
But suddenly I discovered that in the shadow at the corner of the table...something seemed to be moving!