Qin Jue's brows jumped.
A close-up of her daughter's face filled the entire screening room screen. This happy, almost trance-like expression evoked Qin Jue's long-standing memories. She remained silent and straightened the corners of her mouth.
As the movie continues to play, doubts and clues are thrown out in an orderly manner. As the main line of the entire work, it attracts the audience's attention and curiosity.
The style of the picture is also becoming more and more bizarre. It does not have the gore and visual impact common in Western movies, but is gradually filled with a mysterious and mysterious suffocation. Depression and terror spread over the soles of my feet like dry ice that was quietly sprayed out. By the time I noticed, my ankles were already tightly grasped by cold hands.
In another scene of domestic violence, the mother frantically pulled her daughter's hair and dragged her to the ground, scolding her in a sharp voice that she was "shameless", "she only knows how to seduce men outside", and "I don't know what despicable things she will do when she grows up." ", the faces hidden in the shadows are like whirlpools, with ghost hands and grinning mouths stretching inside.
The complete opposite is her daughter's face. She was still smiling, even though the nosebleeds were flowing down and hitting the skirt of her school uniform, she was still smiling.
There was even a glow of care in her eyes, like an angel doll who never had negative emotions. In the end, my mother was tired of beating and scolding, and she trembled when she met those eyes, and then she became even more furious, so angry that she wanted to collapse.
"Go back!" Mother was angry and scared, "Go back!"
The daughter blinked her clean eyes, which were particularly inconsistent at this moment, and responded obediently despite the red, swollen bruises and nosebleeds on her cheeks, and returned to the room obediently.
The camera returned to the police in Country A. Qin Jue crossed his arms and let out a shallow breath.
She had already guessed the ending.
When an extremely good person is only willing to dedicate this "goodwill" to the only individual, it is hard to say whether this kindness is good or not.
Just like Father Lin in "The Empty Monument".
Even though he was mentally prepared, Qin Jue frowned fiercely when the biggest reversal came.
Reminiscing again, it was still the same section of the mountainside, the same group of village gangsters with lewd smiles, and the same daughter wrapped in a headscarf secretly watching behind the tree.
The young girl came out.
She was confused, and with her innocent bravery and childish sensibility, she walked step by step from the sunshine into the shadow of the mountains and the crowd.
The mother, who had pursed her lips tightly, was in disbelief, and her eyes almost popped open.
"Are you leaving?! Go home!" she screamed in collapse.
The daughter looked at her mother, then looked up at the group of men.
"Don't bully my mother." She said softly, with her understanding and bravery that made her mother's sanity collapse. "You can bully me, but don't bully my mother."
Halfway up the mountain came the hoarse and bloody screams of a peasant woman.
The "enemies" who had taken the dominant position really agreed to the exchange of "hostages". They smiled and asked their mother to go down the mountain quickly and "enjoy the life she had bought." The lens was then lowered, as if the camera was installed on a rapidly moving road. On the snake's body, only the mother's rolling and crawling footsteps appear in the picture.
She rushed down the mountain, rushed home, and rushed into the dirty backyard to pull out the chipped hatchet from the firewood pile.
Familiar distorted images appeared: the daughter's ignorant eyes, the mother's crazy eyes, the daughter's tearful eyes, the mother's fixed eyes, the daughter's distracted eyes, and the mother's bloodshot eyes.
The camera zoomed out, and the mother was hunched over, and the blade of the hatchet was curled up from cutting.
The messy brown-haired daughter was wearing the only coat that barely covered her body. She sat slumped on the edge with a dull expression and dull eyes. It wasn't until her mother, who was covered in blood, turned around that she stared blankly. She grinned.
Snapped!
Suddenly, the mother put down the hatchet and slapped her daughter hard.
"You bastard!" She cried hysterically and cursed, "You bastard! You bastard!"
At the end of the scolding, there was only the cry of collapse.
The last purity she guarded with all her heart was shattered. She despised her daughter as much as she despised herself, and hated her daughter as much as she hated herself.
The camera focused on the daughter whose cheek was swollen after being beaten.
In a few seconds, her aggrieved and puzzled expression gradually disappeared, and gradually turned into self-deceptive happiness.
That creepy smile appeared on her daughter's face for the first time.
ah.
So painful.
So sad.
I obviously helped my mother...
I obviously...why...
The new pain and harsh insults from the mother were like a clown's mask, welding a smile onto the girl's face.
Ah, ah.
do not Cry.
Don't feel pain.
It's your mother who is praising you.
It must be your mother who is praising you.
"You are mom's hero."
The girl emphasized to herself over and over again.
You are the hero who saved my mother.
This twisted, self-motivated smile slowly enlarged on the screen, and when it shrank again, the bloody memories ended. The picture showed the smiling face of my daughter in a school uniform.
She smiled, her blue eyes as clean as a holy little angel.
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In the same year that "The Mystery of Ethan Town" was released, the daughter's role was selected as one of the "Top Ten 'Bad Villain' Movie Characters of the Year" by the well-known magazine "Movie Focus" in country A.
Unlike those child characters who are born evil by design, the daughter played by Tang Nuo is created to be extremely evil.
The video was still playing, and the development was not what Qin Jue expected. After witnessing Bert molesting her mother, her daughter sneaked into his house one night.
How kind is the brain circuitry of children.
Last time, she stood up for her mother and was bullied. In the end, her mother beat her and scolded her, but did not praise her for being sensible.
Therefore, this approach should be wrong.
So what is right?
The girl's ignorant eyes blinked again and again, remembering the scene of her mother raising a hatchet to chop in her heart.
She got it.
It turns out that suffering for my mother is not enough, I have to pick up a knife.
As for why...
She is my mother's hero.
She loves her mother and wants to protect her.
Even if she is beaten or insulted, it is because her mother loves her. These are all proofs of her mother's love.
So she must also love her mother.
The girl put her raincoat on inside out and raised the kitchen knife with both hands.
Tuk-tuk-tuk-the sound of chopping meat was heard.
Only a young figure can be seen in the picture.
Ah, ah.
The daughter repeated to herself, this is right, you love her, you have to protect her.
Until the police from Country A collected enough evidence and came to the door, the daughter had that everlasting smile on her face.
She lives in the world she weaves and lives so beautifully.
When the lights in the screening room turned on and all the subtitles were finished, Qin Jue closed his eyes.
Her thoughts on watching the movie can be summed up in only two words:
There is no reason why this film won the award.
There is a reason why this film was banned.
The director of "The Mystery of Ethan Town" explores the moral shame and human repression in Longzhou culture in this film. The mother who was overwhelmed by the chastity memorial, grew up and lived in a twisted environment of love and violence, and had to brainwash her daughter "this is all my mother's love" and "because I am my mother's hero" to survive. Two worthy It is said that the typical characters vividly embody some remaining feudal dross.
With such a theme, coupled with the fact that the director himself is a native of Country A who is of Dragon Kingdom origin but was born in Country A, and the plot spans two countries, even if Longzhou introduces this movie, it may be taken in a direction other than culture and art by someone who is interested. , causing many unnecessary disputes, it is not difficult to understand that "The Mystery of Ethan Town" is banned throughout Longzhou.
The footsteps of the cleaning staff were heard. Qin Jue lowered his head slightly, tapped his eyebrows, stood up and left his seat.
After walking out of the cinema, the air-conditioning in the screening room seemed to still cling to the surface of his clothes. Qin Jue shook his shoulders to get rid of the chill that actually had nothing to do with the air-conditioning.
A movie poster appeared in front of her eyes, with Tang Nuo smiling on it.
Qin Jue's chest was filled with heavy depression.
She kind of wanted to talk about life with the director of "Ethan Town Mystery".
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The original script is purely fictional and has no prototype.
I originally wanted to borrow this chapter and mosaic it myself, but Qidian has closed the comment area recently, and neither the chapter comment nor the replies in the book club can be displayed, so I (bitten the bullet) posted it.
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