The camera moved away from Qiu Mei and moved towards the old man carrying the vegetable basket.
The afterglow of the setting sun shone on the old lady, and as she walked further and further away, it finally stopped on her half shadow.
Seeing this scene, Chen Ge couldn't sit still. He didn't know how the director shot it. This movie was shot a long time ago, when special effects technology was not yet developed, but this scene in the movie looked extremely real.
“Is this really not a filmed movie?”
Shadows have extraordinary significance to life, at least that's what Chen Ge thinks.
"The heroine's left eye can see the shadows of living people. Right? When the lens was first used, did the heroine's parents have shadows?"
A previous movie clip flashed through my mind. The heroine's parents, including the doctor, were not seen in the shot, but this might also be due to the bad weather.
At the beginning of the movie, the sky was covered with dark clouds, there was no sunlight at all, and it was normal that no shadows could be seen.
After Qiu Mei and the old lady left, the heroine returned to her home, took out the key and opened the door.
"Wenyu? Why did you come back so late today?" Wenyu's mother hurried out of the kitchen. She looked at Wenyu with a hint of heartache and an indescribable strange emotion. That emotion was not the same as that of normal parents. Chen Ge did not realize this until now.
The heroine did not reply. As soon as she entered the house, she completely lost her energy and seemed to find it uncomfortable even to breathe.
Pushing open her bedroom door, the heroine ran straight into the bedroom.
“This child…”
"I've asked others, and my daughter might be sick." The heroine's father put down the newspaper, pointed to his head, and lowered his voice: "I have contacted the doctor, and I will bring him over to see our daughter this weekend."
"How much do you think it will cost?"
"Seeing a doctor is the most important thing now. You don't want our daughter to be unhappy all the time, do you?"
The voices of her parents came from outside the door, but the heroine didn't care at all what they said.
The camera representing the heroine's line of sight moved from the heroine's parents to the ceiling, then the screen turned black and the heroine closed her eyes again.
"This movie seems to be recording something, but if everything is real, the timeline doesn't seem to match up." Chen Ge touched the blind man's shoulder: "What do you think?"
"I can't see it. If you've finished reading it, let's go. I don't want to stay here for even a minute. Brother, you don't sound like a bad person. Please let me go and stop tormenting me."
The blind man's back was soaked, and he had kept his eyes closed, but he was already scared enough just by hearing the sound.
"The movie is already halfway through and will be over soon. Please bear with me." Chen Ge looked at the screen and the colors became brighter. This part was also recorded from the heroine's perspective, mainly telling about some small things that happened between her and Qiu Mei.
The heroine is taciturn and rarely speaks. She would not speak if she could avoid it.
Qiu Mei's personality is exactly the opposite of the heroine, she is carefree and doesn't take anything to heart.
She acts impulsively and without considering the consequences, but perhaps it is precisely because of this momentum that the relationship between her and the heroine continues to grow closer.
Two people with such different personalities actually became friends.
What surprised the people around them even more was that their academic performance was constantly improving, which was something even Teacher Cao had not expected.
He was just trying to deal with it out of courtesy, but he didn't expect that the two worst students in the cram school would have such a strange "reaction" after sitting next to each other.
The picture became brighter and brighter, and the overall shooting style was completely different from before. It was obviously a horror movie, but it gave Chen Ge the feeling of watching a youth inspirational movie.
“It’s great that this director can handle so many different styles.”
Chen Ge estimated the progress of the movie. Four-fifths of it had already passed. Except for the ghosts he saw at the beginning, in the remaining long period of time, there was not even a single slightly scary moment, let alone ghosts.
"A horror movie without ghosts?"
There must be an "unknown" thing in horror movies on the market. This unknown thing will bring suspense to the audience and create a sense of horror.
But this movie seems to be an exception. The whole movie is told from the heroine's first-person perspective, and she doesn't see anything really scary.
Chen Ge always felt that the director was holding back a big move. He knew that this movie was not that simple. As the movie came to an end, he felt that the truly terrifying thing was about to appear.
The relationship between Qiu Mei and the heroine is getting better and better, but there is a strange thing worth noting. During the time when Qiu Mei and the heroine became friends, Qiu Mei's laughter was heard several times in the lens, but the heroine's laughter was never heard once.
There is still some time before the graduation exam, and with Qiu Mei's current grades, there will be no problem for her to graduate successfully.
She has made the best friend and is about to fulfill the promise she made to her grandmother. Now should be the happiest time for Qiu Mei.
However, when Qiu Mei is happy, as a viewer, we can see the anxiety hidden behind the happiness through the heroine's perspective.
Grandma Qiu Mei’s shadow becomes shorter and shorter, the heroine’s parents become more worried, and the speed of camera switching becomes more frequent and faster, as if the heroine is blinking her eyes frequently.
Beneath the peaceful life, there is a huge whirlpool hidden, and anyone who gets close to it will be dragged into the deep sea.
After the graduation exam, there was a class reunion and Qiu Mei and the heroine returned home very late.
The night was exceptionally quiet. Qiu Mei was humming a pop song. Her biggest wish over the past few months had been fulfilled, and she was in a very good mood.
"Classmate, why haven't you spoken a word? We can finally relax. We don't have to look at Lao Cao's face every day anymore." Qiu Mei put her arm around the heroine's shoulders and pressed her body very close to her.
The camera looked at Qiu Mei from a very close position. The girl had already dyed her hair back to black, and she looked very beautiful.
The heroine looked away after a while. She lowered her head and the camera captured the dark road that seemed to have no end.
"You look a little unhappy?" Qiu Mei's face squeezed into the camera again.
The heroine stared at Qiu Mei quietly, without saying a word, and walked forward alone.
"Is it because of your family? I don't think I've ever heard you mention them." Qiu Mei caught up and said, "Actually, my family also makes me unhappy. The one who gave birth to me was arrested, and it was my grandmother who raised me, so I took my grandmother's last name."
The heroine did not stop, and Qiu Mei followed her until she reached an intersection.
Qiu Mei's house is on the left and the heroine's house is on the right. They always say goodbye here.
"Wenyu? What happened to you today?"
The heroine did not stop. After crossing the road, she silently said to Qiu Mei: "Actually, that is not my name."
"Isn't that your name?" Qiu Mei was about to ask, but the heroine had already started walking forward.
The special living environment in her childhood shaped Qiu Mei's personality different from other children of her age. She did not go home, but chased after him.
Following behind the heroine, calling her name.
The light on both sides became less and less, and finally the two girls stopped in front of a dilapidated apartment building.
This apartment building is located in an inconspicuous corner of the city. It is pitch black and it seems that no one lives inside.
"Wenyu? Your home... is here?"
Still no answer, the heroine ran upstairs, took out her keys, and Qiu Mei followed behind.
There were no lights in the corridor, and Qiu Mei stumbled and tripped several times.
The door opened and the heroine walked into the room.
The lights in the living room were not on, the curtains were drawn, and it was completely shrouded in darkness.
But in this situation, in the camera, the kitchen door was opened and the heroine's mother walked out.
"Wenyu? Why are you back so late today?"
A familiar voice, a familiar scene, and the familiar figure standing in the darkness was the heroine's mother.
The scene that seemed normal during the day, when reappeared in the darkness at night, actually gave people an indescribable feeling of horror.
"I won't come back here anymore." The heroine's voice changed. This time she didn't hide in the bedroom, but stayed in the living room.
"Wenyu! Who are you talking to?" Qiu Mei stood at the door, looking at the dark living room with a pale face. The scene in her eyes seemed completely different from what the heroine saw: "This place is so shabby, the furniture is rotten, and the floor is full of cracks. Wenyu, what are you doing here? Go home quickly!"
"Go home?" The heroine gently grabbed Qiu Mei's hand, and then suddenly pulled her into the house: "But... we are already home!"
The light on the shield grew dimmer and dimmer until it became pitch black. The director did not capture what was happening in the room, probably because he himself did not know.
A scream sounded in the darkness, and her eyes suddenly opened. The heroine was still lying on the bed in her bedroom.
The camera moves to the window. The sky is gloomy, making people feel very depressed.
This scene is reconnected to the beginning of the movie. The same sky appears, and it seems that everything that just happened was just a nightmare.
The heroine looked at the clock on the table, took out her cell phone, replied to a message, and then dragged her tired body into the bathroom.
She kept her head down, so the camera was only shooting the ground.
After brushing teeth and washing face, the sound of a cell phone vibrating suddenly sounded. The camera moved, and the heroine took out the cell phone from her pocket and pressed the answer button.
"Wenyu, how about we go to the movies tonight? Let's celebrate that you finally got rid of that female scoundrel."
"Qiu Mei is not a ruffian, and she has never bullied me."
"You are too kind, so Lao Cao let you sit with her. Do you know that her parents were convicted and both went to jail? Now that she is missing, who knows what she will do? In short, you must not have anything to do with her again."
"Okay, I get it." The female lead held the phone more and more tightly: "By the way, classmate, after watching the movie tonight, can you come to my house? I want to invite you to watch something interesting."
"Sure, no problem!"
"Okay, it's settled." After hanging up the phone, the heroine slowly raised her head.
The camera turns to the mirror, and this is the first time in the entire movie that the audience sees the heroine's appearance.
A thin body, sloppy clothes, long black hair, and a face that is a combination of countless women.
These women all looked different, but their left eyes were exactly the same.
The eyeball gave people the feeling that it was a long nail nailed into countless faces.