Also watching the trailer was Ms. Merritt Leslie in France.

She is a freelance writer and film critic. She started out as a drama critic in her early years and later got involved in the fields of film, TV series, stage plays, operas, etc. As is a French tradition, women are stronger than men. She is also one of the judges of the Palme d'Or.

Ms. Merritt is known for her harsh comments and venomous eyes. She once publicly dissed an actress who tried to switch from movies to Broadway stage performances, causing her to be attacked by the media and the audience and retired from the entertainment industry.

Therefore, some people call her the "Queen of Cannes", meaning that as long as she speaks, it is basically determined whether a film will win the Palme d'Or.

As a film critic who also does theatre, Ms. Merritt is naturally at the top of the contempt chain.

In this circle, people who make movies look down on people who make TV series, and people who perform in dramas look down on people who make movies. It's normal, but most people keep a line in mind. Even if they really have some opinions in their hearts, they won't say them. But Ms. Merritt is different. What she hates most is those people who originally made cheap entertainment projects like popcorn movies and then come to get involved in the field of drama or art films that she likes.

Whenever a director has a "criminal record", her score will be very low without exception.

Not only did she get a low score, she also wrote an article to criticize the show in front of the director and actors.

Therefore, when she heard that Lu Ban was going to participate in the Palme d'Or selection, her first reaction was that another arrogant guy had come.

"These people don't understand art at all. I've said this before. They think they are great just because their clichéd films can fool the public and make money. They try to gild themselves with one or two awards. Haha, it's ridiculous."

Ms. Merritt scoffed.

In her opinion, many commercial film directors are confused and think that if they can make a hit movie, they can also make an artistic movie. In fact, Ms. Merritt believes that these people do not understand art at all, and what they do is tarnishing art.

And Lu Ban is one of them.

This cutting-edge young director from the East achieved the fifth highest box office result in global film history with just one movie, and also received rave reviews from the public.

Ms. Merritt has not seen that movie. She never takes the initiative to watch commercial movies. The better they sell and the higher the box office, the more she hates them.

She believes that art should be noble, have nothing to do with money, and be pure.

Therefore, when the director of an award-winning art film died of poverty and illness, Ms. Merritt wrote an article specifically praising the director, saying that he did not associate with those businessmen and defended art with his life.

Some people think that Ms. Merritt's thinking is extreme and morbid, but this is exactly her personality.

After the trailer for Lu Ban was released, Ms. Merritt had no plans to watch it, but people around her were praising the trailer.

For example, Ms. Merritt's colleague, Michael Weaver, who is also a judge at the film festival, praised the artistic conception shown in the trailer.

"I'm telling you, this movie is enough to win everyone's heart just by this trailer. It's been a long time since I've seen a movie that can move my heart just by the visuals!"

After hearing this, Ms. Merritt felt even more strongly that Lu Ban should not be allowed to be so arrogant.

"You have such high expectations based on just a trailer. Has the film industry become so bad recently?"

She mumbled and clicked on the trailer.

For a moment, Ms. Merritt felt a warm breeze.

She had been to the island country and seen cherry blossoms falling all over the streets, but at this moment, what she saw was an even more gorgeous cherry blossom rain.

In it, a young girl is walking among the falling petals.

The first time Ms. Merritt saw her, she felt a youthful vitality and a gentle and kind temperament, as if anyone could be kind to her and become her friend.

As time passed, although Merritt had never seen the girl before, he felt that if he could meet her in real life, the two of them would definitely be able to talk about anything.

Before she knew it, the trailer had ended. Although it only presented the life of a young girl, it had given Ms. Merritt endless expectations. She wanted to see the girl's subsequent experiences, wanted to know more about her, wanted to transform herself into the character in the movie and get in touch with her.

Staring at the computer screen, Ms. Merritt forgot for a moment that she was originally watching the film with a critical mindset.

“…This must be because the actress’s acting is so good.”

Ms. Merritt said to herself.

"This kind of short film can be made by choosing the right scenery and finding an actor with good acting skills. It's just good-looking."

She thought about it and felt that Lu Ban's operation of taking some nice pictures of the scenery and using beautiful actors to add gimmicks to his works was tarnishing art!

Thinking of this, Ms. Merritt could no longer suppress her critical spirit.

She immediately opened the document and began to write about the trailer and her thoughts on Lu Ban.

"...Although Director Lu Ban has achieved success in business, he has only a superficial understanding of art. He thinks that using beautiful actors, beautiful scenery and slow shots is art, but I think he is tarnishing art. He tried to deceive the audience with those commercial means, but there are still people with sharp eyes. As for "Spring Days Without a Fight", I think it is just a clichéd love movie. Let alone winning the Palme d'Or, it can't even get a nomination!"

"…He thought that the tricks he used in commercial films to please audiences without aesthetic taste could also be used to deceive experienced judges. Unfortunately, he failed."

"Art? Does he deserve it?"

This is a review article updated on a personal website. After a few hours, the number of clicks exceeded 10,000.

In China, this article was quickly reprinted in larger forums, and was also accompanied by a machine translation.

Many people who are not optimistic about Lu Ban regard it as the Bible and use it to criticize Lu Ban's new movie. After all, some people only repeat what others say and have no subjective opinions of their own. Some people even think that what foreigners say is right. If foreigners criticize domestic things, then it must be that the domestic things are not done well. Since now foreign bigwigs say that Lu Ban is no good, then Lu Ban must be no good!

Under such circumstances, the complete film master tape of Lu Ban's "Spring Day Without War" was sent to faraway Europe, to the hands of the Palme d'Or jury.

Within a week, the judges will review the film and make their evaluations.