Dual leader, my daughter can't be so good

29.

It has been half a year since Claire came to China. Originally, Luo Xi had planned to release his movie, but he was more noble and glamorous when he was an actor. , In addition to the uproar when he came out of the closet, the schedule and method of the film's release were not satisfactory. Often when others questioned his directorial ability, they often made some unreasonable demands.

This made Luo Xi, who was already bad-tempered, even more irritable. When he was rejected for the fifth time, he simply decided to send the film to the Tokyo Film Festival for the premiere - his mentor in France saw his sample film Finally, he was very moved, so he gave such a suggestion, and greeted his early students, allowing him to enter the exhibition unit smoothly.

When Ma Xiaoshun and Luo Xi arrived in Tokyo, the film festival had just opened.

For various reasons, Luoxi's film was ranked on the evening of the fifth day. This is not a prime time. After five days, both the audience and the film critics will usher in a period of fatigue. The short-term continuous viewing process will make them particularly demanding. , will not even watch the whole movie because of politeness, and it is still dinner time. If the movie is not attractive enough, they will naturally give up the boring movie to enjoy the food.

Although Luo Xi came with the film, in fact, there were very few people from the production team, none of the actors were professional, and there were no special big names. When the organizer asked whether Luo Xi's production team would go to the red carpet Luo Xi hesitated for a while, but still nodded, even though it looked shabby, it was considered free publicity.

Even though she has been out of acting for almost five years, when Luo Xi appeared on the red carpet, it was still the existence of Murder Film.

Luo Xi was wearing a silver-gray suit, and the white shirt inside was casually unbuttoned at the neckline. There was a white rose pinned in the jacket pocket. His demeanor, if we say that he was as handsome and exquisite as a carefully polished painting before, and every part of his beauty seemed to have been carved, which almost did not exist in the world, but now he seems to have walked into the world from the altar, he His eyes are no longer untainted indifference and detachment, and his brows no longer hide the reserve and arrogance of talent and arrogance. His slight smile is still touching, but it is cute and cute, which makes people feel close .

Probably because he was born a luminous body, so when he stood on the red carpet and walked slowly through the long river of flash lights, no one could compete with him.At this time, here, he is the spirit who deceives people's minds.

Even so, when Luo Xi saw the two father and daughter wearing different sizes and the same style of parent-child outfits in the fan group, his expression still showed a momentary stunned expression.

Ma Xiaoshun and Claire wore blue trench coats with baby bear printed on them, and there were two little furry ears on the windproof cap at the back. They dutifully acted as Luoxi's idiot fans, and even held a big sign that read "Da Luo Take a look at me" on the board, the two happily took various photos of Luo Xi with the camera, and occasionally shouted: "Luo Xi, I love you", stretching out their hands to cover their chests, with a look of being trapped by Luo Xi. Xi Xi was overwhelmed by her beauty, and even pretended to be unreasonable and tried to rush past the security guards to ask for an autograph.

——This kind of appearance is really stupid.

After watching the behavior of the two father and daughter playing tricks, Luo Xi really walked over, wrote his name on the bear's head of the clothes at their request, and walked away quickly until he entered the theater after walking the red carpet. I couldn't help laughing in the corner.

29.

When "Paradise" premiered, Luo Xi didn't sit in the first row. He sneaked into the seat reserved for him by Ma Xiaoshun and Claire behind the cover of the crew. The two father and daughter were wearing sweaters signed by him. , holding two large buckets of popcorn and chewing, watching him come, his cheeks were still bulging, as if he didn't expect him to come - even though they had imagined the scene of watching a movie together as a family, Ma Xiaoshun Even taking out Luo Xi's headshot from his wallet and putting it on the empty space, Luo Xi couldn't look directly at the foolishness of the father and daughter.

Ma Xiaoshun hurriedly put away the photos, and when Luo Xi sat down, he secretly asked in a low voice, "Is it alright if you come over?"

"Photography is not allowed in the movie theater." Luo Xi smiled cunningly and complacently. This "pictures and truth" world is really good, "I will sneak back at the end of the film."

The happiest was Claire. The child looked at the father on the left and Papa on the right, and the smile on his face was blingbling like a flashlight.

After several trailers were broadcast, the title of "Paradise" appeared.

The beginning of "Paradise" is unremarkable. A boy named "Adong" was abandoned by his mother at the gate of an orphanage. The headmaster took him in. He couldn't understand the fact that "mother will not come back", no matter what others said , He insisted on waiting at the door every day.

"My mother will come back for me," Ah Dong told the children in the orphanage, emphasizing over and over again, "She's just lost."

But the children in the orphanage can't understand A Dong's persistence. They will steal A Dong's food while the adults are not paying attention, wipe their nose with A Dong's clothes... and make things for A Dong in all harmless and annoying ways. All kinds of troubles.

"Don't worry about it," a girl named "Coral" in the orphanage handed him her apple, "If you don't talk about your mother, they won't bully you."

A Dong knocked out the apple in Coral's hand, so he was even more excluded by the orphans.

When Ma Xiaoshun saw this, he held Luo Xi's hand. Luo Xi's palm was cold. He was concentrating on looking at the screen, his eyes flickering, as if he was thinking about something, but he didn't show any strange emotions.

A Dong hid in the small storage room and cried, holding the clothes left by his mother, recalling the old days.

He began to understand that he had also become an "orphan". When he realized this, his mentality changed. He put the clothes on the pile of dead leaves and burned them, and fought hard with the children who bullied him. After a fierce fight, his previous well-educated demeanor gradually disappeared. Like a kitten falling off a cliff, he gradually adapted to his orphan status.

During this adaptation period, he was gradually assimilated by those orphans. Although he was not cynical, he no longer had the innocence of a child.At this time, the film has entered a sad and soothing rhythm. It condenses the drastic changes in a child's life into 15 minutes. It shows the changes of a child without procrastination, but it is very intriguing. It does not describe A Dong's psychology too much. When the rhythm of the film slows down, A Dong has completed his transformation.

Like other children in the orphanage, he cleaned, made small handicrafts to make money, went to school, and his life remained the same until the director told him that someone was willing to adopt him.

Being adopted, in the eyes of other orphans, is a very lucky thing. It means that you don’t have to eat three meals a day and the same fruit, you don’t have to sleep in a bunk with others, and you don’t have to take turns cleaning and cleaning every day. Delivering newspapers, you don’t have to do handicrafts for two hours at night, you don’t have to wear clothes donated by others and use textbooks used by others, you don’t have to be embarrassed at every parent meeting, and you don’t have to be emphasized over and over again that you are an orphan when your classmates mention it.

But Ah Dong doesn't think so, he has a mother, and he doesn't want to call someone else's mother.

But all this was buried in his heart, and he never mentioned it to anyone.

"Why don't you want to?" Coral asked him puzzled.

A Dong was silent for a while, pretending to be cheerful on purpose, "I don't like it there, being controlled by others, how nice it is here..."

"It's not good here at all!" Xiao Qiu, Shan Shan's younger brother, said softly, pouted. He was younger than them all, and his health was not good. A Dong took good care of him, and he gradually became A Dong. little tail.

A Dong patted his head, "But here is very free."

Neither Shan Shan nor Xiao Qiu understood what he meant, and A Dong himself didn't understand very well. He only knew that if he was adopted, maybe he really wouldn't be able to see his mother.

"Freedom?" Xiao Qiu repeated the word in confusion.

A Dong didn't speak any more, he thought he had an idea - the idea of ​​getting the best of both worlds, he begged the dean to give Shan Shan and Xiao Qiu this opportunity.

The family who came to adopt him was a good person, and they also fell in love with Shan Hu and Xiao Qiu, so A Dong sent his friends away and stayed in the orphanage.

He quietly moved the remaining things of Shan Shan and Xiao Qiu to the storage room.

In fact, the storage room has been abandoned because it is dilapidated, but there are all the things that A Dong is unwilling to give up, including the half sleeve that seems to be burned.

Soon after, the land of the orphanage was expropriated, and the director was about to retire. The orphanage that no one would take over was in danger of being demolished.

All the orphans in the orphanage are aware of this, even though this is not a home, but it gives them a place to live, and once the orphanage is demolished, they will have no place to live anymore.

At this time, a man named "A Jue" who had been out of the orphanage came back. He said that he had worked hard for many years and always wanted to do something for the orphanage. He said that he could help them, but he The funding for a new orphanage is nowhere near enough, so they need to do something.Because of his enthusiasm and sincerity, the dean handed over the orphanage to him.

He made the remaining children in the orphanage wear specially prepared shabby clothes, and held a sign to collect donations along the streets and alleys-it was called donations, but it was actually begging in disguise.

The other children agreed, but A Dong refused to go.

"You just want the orphanage to close down, don't you?" The child who couldn't understand him complained loudly, "I've seen it a long time ago, you are a traitor!"

No one wanted to listen to his ideas, he was beaten up, and the kids didn't even want to sleep with him and locked him out.

A Dong dragged his blanket to the storage room.

The next day, he was forced to take to the streets together.

This kind of behavior made him feel extremely ashamed. Seeing those children holding boxes and grabbing a person on the street and then kneeling in the street until the other party gave him money, Adong couldn't accept it. He hid himself while others were not paying attention. In the alley, planning to escape the day.

Then he saw a familiar profile - Mom!

His mother was dressed as beautifully as before, holding a child, followed by a strange man.

"Mom! Mom!" He thought he would shout loudly and run over, but he just watched the family of three disappear into the crowd silently.

When he returned to the orphanage, Ah Jue was searching through the donation boxes one by one. Seeing that Ah Dong didn't get any money, Ah Jue was unhappy but still didn't say anything.After a week like this, the retired dean came back and found something was wrong.He quarreled with Ah Jue, and during the quarrel, Ah Jue pushed the dean down the stairs by mistake.

Because of the murder and being involved in begging and fraud, the orphanage was ordered to close down soon.

No matter how much the children begged, they still lost this only shelter.

On the last night of lingering here, A Dong came to the storage room. His eyes lingered over all his collections, and slowly became indifferent and numb. Then he took out the lighter from the bag, lit those things, and the flames rolled Suddenly, thick smoke filled the air, and A Dong's figure slowly disappeared into the sea of ​​flames.

30.

This film is neither bright nor happy, it is permeated with a sense of fateful tragedy from the beginning to the end, no matter how hard the children try, their identities are doomed to not have a happy ending.Although this film does not use any big names, nor does it have gorgeous special effects, but the delicate shooting techniques, beautiful poetic pictures, smooth and clear story structure, and the natural performances of the actors have added a lot to this originally dull film. Highlights, although there are still some places that need to be refined, some plots still have redundant shortcomings, and the transition between shots and shots is still very young, but this is indeed a good movie with heart.

Although many people couldn't bear this too slow and bland narrative technique and left at halftime, but at the end, many people shed tears for Adong.

After the film was released, both professional film critics and online movie fans' impressions were divided into two different views.One is that the flaws of this film do not hide its merits. The director’s earnestness has allowed this film to catch up with many commercial blockbusters. Although the plot is simple and the ending is dark, it is not an assembly line work. The director wants to narrate and express everything. I see, as a newcomer's new work, it's still very good.The second is that this film is a hypocritical literary film that will not be popular, with a warm narrative rhythm, an overly bleak ending, and hidden specious truths. Even if some plots are cut off, it will not have any impact.The two completely different judgments became more and more heated, from the scene to the actors, from the actors to the storyboard, from the storyboard to the script, the only thing that was not in dispute was the theme song, episode and soundtrack written by Luo Xi himself.Both the theme song "Paradise" and the episodes "Good Night" and "Never See You" have all entered the new song list. The hot songs became popular first, so Luo Xi received many calls asking for singles or movie soundtracks before Luo Xi's identity as a director was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

"I now feel that even if I'm not a director, I can be a music producer or something." Luo Xi put down a phone call from an old colleague, and was a little confused about the current situation-who still remembers that his job is to be a director? with.

"Good idea," Ma Xiaoshun nodded seriously. Anyway, now that the factory is on the right track, it's only a matter of minutes before he contributes to Luo Xi's production of an album. "Why don't I help you with an album."

But Ma Xiaoshun didn't know at this time that his words gave him the greatest gift in his life. In the future, he would receive an exclusive album made by Luo Xi for him.

And the name of the album is "Love Letter".