Chapter 90: Enter the Trap (Two in One)
As a stamp collector, Su Yun is very skilled at this tactic of luring people into a trap.
Bourne actually wanted to ask a few more questions to see if he could get any advice on a new job from Su Yun - the wave of ideological liberation in the early years created many parents who were not qualified to be parents, and also created many children who were not expected and had no choice but to come into this world.
His biological father abandoned him when he was very young, and his mother committed suicide when he was ten years old, leaving the child alone and helpless, having to live with his stepfather's family from then on.
Such a chaotic and difficult family background caused him to give up the idea of completing his studies in school early and devote himself to making money in the entertainment industry.
Unfortunately, the first few films he made were neither well-known nor box office hits. The only one that made him famous almost ruined his already bleak acting career. In the end, he had no choice but to pick up the guitar again, which he had reluctantly put down after starting out as a minor actor in various films, in an attempt to make a change.
As a result, this transformation turned out to be nothing more than a self-deceiving joke.
The only time he made up his mind not to force himself was when he planned to quit his singing career in Japan and return to the entertainment industry. The ending was unexpected. He had originally planned to perform on stage in Japan for the last time "impersonating" someone else, but he met Su Yun, a friend who seemed like an enemy but also like a companion.
Seeing Su Yun's carefree behavior, Byrne was shocked at how much he had to pay for his determination: he didn't make much money from filming and recording a few songs in Japan. If he just left like that, after buying a plane ticket to Hollywood, he probably wouldn't have enough money to live on for a few days...
And everyone knows how difficult it is for non-natives to enter Hollywood.
As a last resort herself, Byrne finally had to put aside his pride and seek advice from Su Yun, who had already made a name for in Hollywood.
Since he had changed from a passive party to an active party, Su Yun immediately raised his attitude. After looking him up and down with a scrutinizing gaze, he said, "Perform a piece for me."
Seeing the rather helpless look on Byrne's face during his performance, Su Yun clapped her hands: Just as she expected, the man in front of her is still a big vase...
Bourne felt a little aggrieved, but he had to admit that Su Yun's comment was indeed to the point: most of the roles he had played in previous films were minor supporting roles with not much screen time; and for the film "Death in Venice", he didn't even have to memorize the lines, and most of the time he just had to keep an ambiguous expression quietly, showing off his youthful beauty throughout the whole process, simply treating himself as a piece of art.
His greatest acting experience is playing flat, paper-like vase characters. How much acting experience can he accumulate to improve his acting skills?
"How about this, I'll ask my friends to help you get in touch with a theater troupe." Su Yun thought about it and began to plan a way out for him. "First, you can perform with the troupe everywhere to hone your acting skills. Second, the troupe will also guarantee your living and accommodation. But you may just have to help with some odd jobs."
Judging from his appearance, he probably doesn't like studying very much, which saves her the risk of investing in him to support his education.
However, Su Yun also gave a second suggestion: "Or you can choose another way - I can first sponsor you to study acting in performing arts schools, drama academies, etc., and when you finish your studies, you can pay me back in installments."
"During this period, if I find a role that suits you, I will inform you as soon as possible. At the same time, if I need your role, you cannot refuse to participate unless it is really unacceptable." Su Yun held the pen and calculated the bill for him. "As for the film remuneration, a portion will be deducted accordingly as repayment of the installment fee."
"We've just met, why are you helping me so much?" Bourne was a little wary.
"Maybe... it's because I like Anderson who laughs naturally more than Tadzio who smiles for show." Su Yun looked at him.
Bourne raised his eyebrows but said nothing. His eyes fell quietly on Su Yun, waiting for her to add to his answer.
"Of course, you should also understand that it is very difficult for non-Americans to survive in Hollywood..." Su Yun pondered for a moment and told her about learning from her master Lu Shaolong to raise supporting actors. "Not only you, I also raised a boy who looks quite cute."
"As long as their looks don't change too much, I will give priority to these experienced supporting actors in future films. They are easy to use, obedient, and familiar with each other, which saves a lot of trouble." Su Yun finished her explanation and looked at him again, "So what do you think now? Anderson?"
Hearing this almost mercenary "business" idea, Bourne let go of his previous guard: "Call me Bourne - the conditions and treatment you proposed are indeed very generous, but can you give me some more time to consider it?"
"Of course. I'll be staying in Japan for a while. Here's the phone number of where I'm staying." Su Yun tore off a piece of paper, wrote the hotel's phone number and address on it, and then generously put it into Bourne's hand.
"Finally, I'll give you a word of advice. I've told others before that you and my friend are very similar in the way you deal with people." However, Bourne, who is taken care of by his stepfather's family, is a little luckier than Zhuang Long, who has been an orphan since childhood. This is because the former has a basically worry-free life due to psychological trauma, while the latter can only rely on himself both physically and mentally.
After organizing her words, Su Yun continued, "Being a human being is like looking into a mirror - how you look at it is how it looks at you."
"I'm not asking you to be a saint who repays evil with kindness, but I just hope that when someone wants to help you, you can be more open-minded. Maybe the world will be different from then on."
Su Yun, with her stern face, was teaching him in an old-fashioned manner. When he thought about her current age, Bourne couldn't help laughing.
"I'm telling the truth, be serious!" Su Yun shook her notebook loudly.
"Okay." Bourne showed a rare little naughty smile that was only appropriate for his age. He held Su Yun's head with one hand to prevent her from jumping up, then lowered his head to look at her, "I will reply to you as soon as possible."
"Don't worry, there's no rush. I'll be waiting for you." Su Yun nimbly ducked and rolled sideways to avoid the pressure, causing Bourne, who was caught off guard, to almost fall.
"Looks like I have to tell you one last thing..." Su Yun moved aside a few steps and smiled at Bourne who finally stood up. "The boss is always the boss. Even if he is half your junior, you can't be so disrespectful."
Seeing Su Yun walking away with brisk steps, Bourne suppressed his amazement at the unfathomable depth of Chinese Kung Fu, and then he began to wonder in his heart: Who is the disrespectful one?!
Su Yun's eccentricity left him speechless. When he woke up in the hotel the next day and saw the Japanese version of "The Sixth Sense" poster hanging in the cinema across the street, Bourne wanted to slap himself: What are you curious about! You didn't want the free tickets at the time, but now you have to pay for the tickets yourself?
Half an hour later, Bourne packed up his things, ran to the cinema across the street to buy a movie ticket, and walked in with a sullen face.
Compared to others who are immersed in the story, Bourne, who has acting experience, pays attention to other things in the movie besides the story.
At the beginning, most of the information about the two main characters is explained through the scene where the male protagonist Malcolm and his wife Anna happily celebrate the award; then, the mood disorder patient who the male protagonist had failed to treat in the past suddenly broke in, shot the male protagonist down on the grounds that the male protagonist failed to save him, and then committed suicide.
This kind of suspenseful and terrifying shooting technique was very captivating. Bourne subconsciously glanced at the information on the ticket: the director was called Spielberg, a new director whom he had not heard much about.
But the shooting techniques are already very sophisticated and the future is very promising.
Thanks to the care of the great director Visconti during the filming of "Death in Venice", Bourne also developed a certain level of appreciation.
The plot of the movie moves quickly, and a year has passed in the blink of an eye.
After recovering, the male protagonist set his eyes on a little girl named Ke'er and followed her all the way to the church.
It is said that Ke'er is a very strange child, always talking to herself in words that others cannot understand. Based on the protagonist's many years of experience in psychological therapy, he quickly gave Ke'er the same diagnosis of "emotional disorder".
But what he didn't expect was that Ke'er was much more difficult to deal with than his previous patient. The male protagonist, who had always been able to use a gentle attitude to win the favor of patients and thus establish friendships with them, was embarrassed for the first time by Ke'er.
Ke'er even acted a little afraid of him, and when he approached, she hurriedly took her things and left the church.
Through Kerr's actions, the scene shifts to Kerr's home. When Kerr's mother Lynn was busy preparing breakfast for her child, a lot of strange phenomena suddenly occurred.
From the cupboard doors that were suddenly opened to the fingerprints and water stains that suddenly appeared on the table, these strange phenomena that increased the workload all happened that morning.
But Lynn never blamed the child for her "prank". Instead, she asked Ke'er to quickly put on her schoolbag and go to school with her friends.
After her mother Lynn's figure disappeared from the window, Ke'er separated from her seemingly close friend: while the mother was trying hard to reassure the child, the child was also trying hard to reassure the mother.
After school, Ke'er went home and saw the male protagonist who came to visit her, and her face was still full of caution.
The two tested each other by playing games, and the male protagonist's speculation that Ke'er was a good student in school was completely shattered in the questions and answers between the two.
On the contrary, Ke'er was very reluctant to go to school, but for the sake of her mother, she had to pretend that everything was fine and she was happy.
Attracted by this strange child, Ke'er, the male protagonist is busy with his treatment and seems to have forgotten to communicate with his wife recently.
So, when he was late for the date, his wife paid for the meal as if he didn't exist, leaving him sitting in his seat alone and feeling distressed.
But the male protagonist can still separate family and work, so his plan is to help Ke'er first and then repair the relationship between husband and wife: because he believes that the fundamental reason why his wife is angry with him is that he failed to save the patient a year ago.
His wife had always believed that he was omnipotent, but now that he had fallen from grace in front of her, she naturally had other thoughts.
In order to cure Ke'er as soon as possible, the male protagonist has been trying hard to make friends with Ke'er.
When the distance between the big and the small was finally shortened, Ke'er's mother Lynn suddenly began to discover a strange phenomenon: there was a strange light spot in all the photos of Ke'er from childhood to adulthood.
The male protagonist also discovered that his wife was secretly being pursued by another man without his knowledge...
"Could it be that Ke'er can really see ghosts? That's why she is ostracized, and the male protagonist has always been so self-righteous that he thinks he is helping her?!" Thinking of the name of the movie and the supernatural plot, the audience began to discuss.
"He only cared about his work and ignored his wife. No wonder the male protagonist ended up like this!"
"The hero has tried very hard. Ke'er is so pitiful. It's natural for him to want to save her!"
"You're right. As a wife, Anna shouldn't not understand her husband!"
When discussing this, the plot happened to show the scene where his wife Anna was sitting on the sofa, watching the wedding video of the couple over and over again.
It seems like there is a chance for this couple's relationship to turn around!
The audience was relieved.
As the protagonist and Ke'er communicate more and more intimately, Ke'er finally begins to let down her guard and secretly tells the protagonist what she knows about the characteristics of "ghosts" and how they are everywhere.
After this seemingly warm exchange, the male protagonist secretly recorded a new diagnosis: he judged that Ke'er was actually suffering from hallucinations and schizophrenia, and perhaps he could no longer help her.
Moreover, he also wanted to spare more time to restore his relationship with his wife: since the patient who failed the treatment passed away, their relationship has deteriorated, and he can even see antidepressants at home - probably because his wife Anna could not accept his failure as a husband, and suffered from depression due to the difficulty in communicating between the two, so she had different ideas and let others take advantage of her...
The more bizarre supernatural phenomena there are, the darker the color of the protagonist's hat becomes. Just as the audience is getting nervous, the protagonist discovers a strange phenomenon in the tape summarizing Kerr and the previous patient who had failed treatment.
From then on, the male protagonist changed his attitude and tried his best to believe what Ke'er said. He and Ke'er handled the ghosts' requests for help together, allowing them to get redress and rest in peace.
The campus program started again. This time, Ke'er, who had bravely faced the supernatural phenomena in the school with the encouragement and company of the male protagonist, became the protagonist King Arthur. Amid the applause of her classmates, she pulled out the sword in the stone, which only a person with a pure heart could pull out.
After the show ended, standing in front of the stained window of the church at dusk, Ke'er looked at the male protagonist with a face full of satisfaction, and suddenly told him a method that could allow him to communicate with his wife.
"After Anna falls asleep, if I talk in her ear, she will be able to hear it, right?" At this moment, the hero and Ke'er both realized that after today, they might never meet again.
"Can we pretend to meet again tomorrow?" Ke'er asked tentatively.
The hero agreed to her request, and then left the church quickly, just like Ke'er had left in the past, leaving Ke'er standing in front of the stained window with a calm and confused look on her face.
The colorful colors and the petite figures in the afterglow of dusk create a strange yet peaceful picture, as moving as a warm oil painting.
Later, her mother, Lynn, who had been in a minor car accident and missed her performance, came to pick her up.
In the car, facing her mother's repeated apologies, Ke'er did not blame her. Instead, she boldly told her mother that she had been able to see ghosts.
"Do you... think I'm a freak?" Everyone used to say that to her at school, so she resisted going to school for two reasons: one was that the school used to be a court, and there were always many hanged people there; the other was that no one believed what she said. Instead, she was laughed at and scolded by her teachers and classmates for talking nonsense and being a weird child.
However, this child, who was considered a freak by outsiders, insisted on going to school no matter how difficult it was in order to become a sensible child in his mother's eyes.
"I would never think so!" Mother Lynn replied firmly.
Ke'er finally smiled, and then whispered to her mother that her grandmother was saying hello to her - the strange light spot that had always been with Ke'er in the photos recording her growth was her grandmother who had left them many years ago.
"Grandma told me that you had a quarrel with her over a dance performance because you thought she didn't want to watch her daughter's performance..." Ke'er said calmly, "Actually, grandma went to watch it, but she hid in the back and you didn't see her."
"She said you were like an angel at that time."
After saying this, Ke'er looked up again and asked, "Mommy, grandma asked me to tell you that the question you asked at her grave that day, her answer was 'every day' - what question did you ask her at that time?"
Lynn was stunned for a moment, and then tears fell silently.
"I asked her at the time if she...if she was ever proud of me."
A child who thinks he has never been loved, after years of persistence, suddenly discovers by chance the deep love from his relatives that he has always ignored and neglected. It is impossible not to be excited and distressed.
So when it came to this, Lynn, who was crying in the play, hugged Kerr tightly, and Jane Fonda, who was also crying outside the play, also hugged Su Yun tightly.
Jane Fonda believed that she lacked the love of her parents in her early years and lived a life of people-pleasing personality. She can empathize with Lynn, who works hard to support her family. When filming Artificial Intelligence, although she found the lost records and untied her knot, she was still addicted to the life of trying hard to please others and giving hard, and it was difficult for her to really get out of it.
Until Su Yun used the plot of a movie to make her cry her heart out.
That tight hug made Su Yun seem to feel that Jane Fonda, who lived for the love of others, would eventually become a thing of the past; and the Jane Fonda who would become a legend in the future would begin to prepare for a new life on the premise of having received love.
The three consecutive movies were all tear-jerking artifacts. When the audience finally wiped away their tears, the biggest reversal was that they finally followed the actions of the male protagonist and walked into their eyes.
It turns out that the male protagonist had died in a shooting accident a year ago.
But because he was worried about his wife, he became a ghost obsessed with her - this also explains why Ke'er had always been very resistant to him in the beginning.
It’s not that she is afraid of treatment, but Ke’er knows from the beginning that this uninvited “psychologist” in front of her is actually just a poor ghost who doesn’t know that he is dead.
Because of the protagonist's obsession, his wife was also trapped at home, indulging in the past, watching their wedding video day after day and unwilling to wake up.
Over time, my wife was tortured to the point of suffering from depression.
"Go to sleep. Everything will be different tomorrow." The male protagonist said goodbye to his wife who fell asleep on the sofa after watching the wedding video. "I have already done everything I wanted to help..."
"And I want to tell you one last thing - that is, you have always been the most important to me, and you will always be."
So, he chose to let it go.
Kerr said that when a ghost appears around, humans will feel cold - but his wife, who was sleeping soundly, didn't notice it at all. Instead, she murmured as if in response: "Good night, Malcolm."
At this point, the video ends.
Ignoring the applause and exclamations in the cinema, Bourne walked straight through the bustling crowd and walked down the street in a cold manner.
He thought he probably understood why Su Yun wanted to give him the movie ticket.
Redemption and being redeemed have always been a matter of one's own thoughts.
If you cling to an obsession, you will only end up trapping yourself.
Just when Bourne thought he had figured it out, he followed the address to find the hotel where Su Yun was staying, but found that there was no one inside.
I clearly said I would wait for him...
The suffocating feeling in my memory, as if I had been abandoned for no apparent reason, suddenly flooded back like a tidal wave.
"Sir? Are you okay?!" The waiter who brought him up to the room was immediately startled when he saw this, and pointed to the desk in a panic, "The lady said that she had to leave temporarily for something, but the room is still reserved. If a person named Bourne comes to see her, let me tell you to look at the letter on the table..."
Like a drowning man who finally grabbed a life-saving straw, Bourne rushed to the desk, opened the envelope and read the contents at a glance.
The letter said that she had some matters that required her to fly to the United States urgently, and she would return as soon as possible after completing the process.
"I will definitely come back to you in the future, so please don't worry about being abandoned! If you have any questions, just write to this address and I will reply as soon as possible!"
On the gold-sprinkled letter paper with early cherry blossoms in light pink, there is a stick figure of a small sun behind the signature, with a smiling expression with squinting eyes. It seems that people's mood will brighten up along with this little sunshine.
This emotion that bursts forth directly from the bottom of the heart is stronger than love, warmer than family affection, and deeper than friendship - it is the peace of mind that finally finds a little light in the endless darkness.
In this world, he finally did not encounter ruthless abandonment again.
Instead, someone told him that he didn't need to worry, because no matter how far or how long she had been away, she would definitely come back to tell him in detail about the traces of the past years.
At this moment, the seed of loneliness buried in my heart seems to be about to break through the soil and be reborn, trying its best to bloom the flower of life and hope when it sees the sun again after experiencing the baptism of wind and rain.
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