Chapter 146 Perspective

Tonight is the last screening of the six New Year movies. Mrs. Li and her family, whose relationship has become much more harmonious, once again came to the auditorium.

Although the movie will continue to be re-screened in the future, many people have become accustomed to this way of entertainment, that is, strolling to the auditorium to watch a movie after dinner in the evening. When they think that tonight is the last show, they can't help but feel more or less disappointed.

It is always easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is extremely difficult to go the other way.

I can only secretly comfort myself by saying that I can save some money by not watching movies for a few days...

"I don't know what kind of movie will be shown tonight, but I still like the one about ghosts the best." In the dim auditorium, some young people were discussing enthusiastically before the movie started.

"Is the one you're talking about called "The Sixth Sense"? It's really good, but I still like "The Perfect Match" more. How can things from outside compare to our own!"

"Don't say that. The story of the little robot is about what will happen in the future. Of all the movies, this one shows the best life!"

"Anyway, the movies have already shown us how good life is outside. If we study hard and build our country, we will be able to live the life in the movies sooner or later!"

"Hey, stop arguing, the movie is about to start!" The person who said this was looking forward to it. "It's the last show, so it should show the best side of us, right?"

Life in foreign countries seems so beautiful in movies. If I have the opportunity to go abroad in the future... wouldn’t it be very happy?

Watching movies these days has indeed made many people yearn for life abroad - at first they were just amazed by the wonderful life in the movies, then after getting used to it, they turned their attention to the movie stories, and then, after their spirits were satisfied, they began to pursue the improvement of their material lives again.

That's why Su Yun arranged the Chinese special edition of "Heartbeat" for the last show.

Therefore, under the expectation of most of the audience who admired the foreign living standards in the movie, the last movie specially arranged by Su Yun gradually revealed its surging undercurrents under the fresh and hazy filter along with the narration of the plot.

The whole movie is divided into different narrative lines from the perspectives of the male and female protagonists at the same time. It starts from the perspective of the young male protagonist Bryce, played by River: Bryce's family had just moved to a new town and had just parked the car when a little Chinese girl ran over enthusiastically, saying that she wanted to help them move their things.

But little Bryce saw through the little Chinese girl named Julie and realized that her real intention was not to help him, but to help him.

Taking into account the difficulty of reciting lines for the young protagonist, Su Yun decided to let the actors who played the young protagonists, herself and Tom, do the voice-overs.

Therefore, although the young actress who played the young heroine was Qiu Yuzhen, the audience had already judged Su Yun's role from the familiar voice and subconsciously stood on Su Yun's side from the beginning.

Under the expectant eyes of the audience, the male protagonist voiced by Tom recalled in the voice-over and mercilessly complained about the little Chinese girl, thinking that she was too shameless.

After that, little Bryce kept avoiding little Julie. No matter how she tried to please him, he remained unmoved and even found her annoying.

The scene changes to five years later. When the young Bryce, played by Tom, appears on the screen, many audience members are stunned by his exquisite appearance: he is the sunny and handsome boy that everyone likes in this era!

China had received a lot of help from its neighboring warring nations before, and was used to seeing propaganda posters of blond and black-haired young men holding hands to create a better tomorrow, so when the young Bryce appeared, he immediately won the favor of many people.

Unfortunately, the person Bryce was chasing after with a smile on his face was not the grown-up Julie, but Cheryl, the school beauty in their middle school. He did this just to get rid of Julie's entanglement by using Cheryl, who disliked Julie, as an excuse.

But what's funny is that Bryce's friend Garrett also likes the school beauty.

In order to please the school beauty and get rid of Bryce, the rival, Garrett, a friend with whom Julie has a very imaginary friendship, reveals Bryce's secrets to the school beauty, saying that Bryce pursued her just to make Julie give up.

After being slapped in the face by the pool by the school beauty who found out the truth, Bryce had no choice but to return to his "miserable" life of maintaining superficial friendship with Julie, the girl sitting behind him, but secretly complaining about her.

As the audience looked at each other in bewilderment, the scene suddenly changed and the perspective suddenly shifted to Julie's side.

In Julie's recollection, she was indeed fascinated by the new neighbor Bryce since she was a child. She thought his eyes were very beautiful and he smelled like watermelon, and she wanted to be friends with him.

Under the filter of self-hypnosis, Julie thought that Bryce was just shy and embarrassed to show intimacy with her in front of others, so she kept trying to pester him, hoping that he would open up.

However, after watching Bryce's perspective in the previous part, the audience began to call on the silly girl to stop deceiving herself - Su Yun's previous series of roles have accumulated a lot of popularity for her. Even though she became a silly girl who seemed to like to throw herself at men in this part, many audiences still have the filter of "no matter how silly your daughter is, it's good"...

Look, when Julie and her two brothers were climbing trees, every time they invited Bryce to join them, he would find one excuse or another to refuse!

It's a blatant perfunctory response, can't you see that? !

If it were our village, those naughty kids would have climbed up the trees without you having to shout!

The story moves at a leisurely pace, and the characters carefully selected by Su Yun all appear so beautiful and extraordinary through the filter of nostalgia that seems like dusk memories.

"Are all foreigners so good-looking?" someone couldn't help but sigh.

"I still think the people in Jolie's family are prettier. Look at those with red hair, yellow hair, blue eyes, and green eyes. They look so creepy..." Blonde hair and blue eyes need to be paired with sunshine and energy to make people add the same friendship filter as the fighting nation. However, most of the white characters in the movie are "severe patients with petty bourgeois sentiment" in the eyes of people of this era. The audience must think they are good-looking while disliking the treatment they get from others.

The Bryce family is obviously a wealthy middle-class family, while Julie's family is a down-to-earth lower-class family. The audience envies the Bryce family's wealth, but at the same time they always smile knowingly when they see Julie's family scenes.

In order to highlight the Chinese identity of the heroine's family, Su Yun also specially designed and customized a batch of clothes with Chinese elements. Every time the scene cuts to Julie's house, there are always new clothes, various small dresses with front opening, buttons, stand-up collars or modified skirts. Many elderly people are very happy to see them: "This is the taste of the clothes I wore when I was young!"

In response, Bryce always secretly complained about the strange clothes that Julie's family wore, that they didn't take care of the weeds in the yard, and that they were sloppy.

The audience felt hurt by Bryce's words. If it weren't for the fact that the young man was good-looking and was the "young master" of a wealthy family who they envied and was ignorant of the sufferings of the world, some people would have started to scold him.

After finally finishing watching the plot from Bryce's perspective with a look of disdain, the scene of Julie climbing a tree suddenly brightened their eyes.

In Bryce's previous plot, Julie insisted on protecting the sycamore tree that was about to be cut down. Most of the audiences who have no environmental awareness now think that Julie's behavior is a bit strange.

Until they followed Julie who climbed to the top of the tree to pick up the kite and saw the tranquil and beautiful countryside.

The sun rises and sets, and the wind blows across the fields. It is a gift from nature that is so vibrant, ethereal, and so far-reaching that it makes one cry.

In the North American version, this moment is a beautiful interdependence between man and nature; but in the Chinese version, Jolie added a sentence to her admiration for the beautiful scenery:

At sunrise, when the sun rises from the east, I seem to see the ties hidden in my blood. That is my hometown that I have never seen but is haunted by in my dreams.

Recalling the overt and covert exclusion that Julie's family encountered in the town, at this moment, the audience seemed to sense a faint sadness in their minds.

That is because of the homesickness of wanderers who have been away from their hometown due to various accidents but cannot give up the blood ties to their hometown.

Just like the Julie family, whose last name has been changed to "Baker", on the one hand, the memories of their homeland are deeply engraved in their blood, and on the other hand, they are helplessly assimilated by foreign things.

There are no human beings on both sides, as if there is no place to call home in this vast world.

"It seems...life outside isn't very good either..." Amidst the sighs, someone sighed softly.

"I think so too. People outside are too wasteful. They have so many good things, but they have to replace or throw away them..." Some elderly people who have experienced the famine years have always been dissatisfied with the shots in the movies that they think are wasteful.

It’s just that at that time everyone was saying that life was better outside and the moon was rounder outside, and they were old and weak, so naturally they were suppressed.

As the story progresses, when Julie starts giving away the extra eggs laid by the chickens at home to the Bryce family, a plot that people look forward to but are reluctant to see occurs.

The Bryces thought Julie's yard was too dirty, so they suspected that the eggs Julie sent were contaminated with germs and were unwilling to eat them, so they asked Bryces to return them to Julie.

But Bryce was a shy and somewhat cowardly person, and he couldn't reject Julie in person, just like he used to complain about Julie in his heart but always put on a forced smile when talking to her.

So he came up with a naughty idea: every time he would wait in advance, and see Julie holding a box of eggs about to cross the street from the house opposite and ring the doorbell, he would immediately take the initiative to go over in advance to open the door and take the eggs that Julie brought him.

Then, after Julie left, Bryce would secretly throw the whole box of eggs into the trash to destroy them, again and again.

This act of wasting food ignited the anger of the audience!

However, poor Julie still thought that the reason Bryce always came to open the door early was that he was secretly looking forward to her arrival, and her heart was full of happy anticipation.

If you do too many bad things, you will be discovered sooner or later. Under the angry and expectant gaze of the audience, Julie stood at the door and thought for a while because Bryce spoke to her a few more words today. Just then, she ran into Bryce who was walking out with a garbage bag.

And on top of the garbage bag was a box of eggs that she had just delivered.

Faced with Julie's angry and aggrieved accusation, Bryce had to honestly tell her the truth that his family thought Julie's yard was dirty, so they also thought her eggs might have problems.

"Mrs. Stubby and Mrs. Helms over there on the street are paying for my eggs!"

Julie angrily snatched back the egg box while talking about how popular her fresh eggs were. She tried to maintain her angry expression, but tears fell involuntarily.

"I'm sorry." Bryce seemed to realize something and apologized subconsciously.

"You wouldn't!" Julie gave him a hateful look, turned around and walked away with the egg box.

Although they still didn't understand why the "chasing wife to the crematorium" plot was such a timeless and popular one, the audience members had the same thought at that moment: I don't know why I'm suddenly excited.