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Chapter 1391 25. Final

After a busy and fulfilling day, Annan returned to the City Lord's Mansion.

As soon as he saw Olmedo and Itilia, he raised his head high. It was Itilia's loving words, "Thank you for your hard work after a busy day," that made him put down his pride.

"Is this the ball of yarn you mentioned for knitting a sweater? Why is it so small?"

Olmedo's eyes fell on Annan's hand.

"I asked April to edit the big one, and I took the small one back to play with."

"Play?"

Annan waved to Lily who was lying on her eldest sister's lap and threw a ball of yarn at her. Lily jumped over instantly.

……

The filming progress of "The Truman Show" was advancing by leaps and bounds, so fast that Annan felt that they were not filming a movie.

Fortunately, the casting directors, prop masters, and extras were able to keep up with Faro Barros because they always filmed with the Burt brothers.

Today, it is Annan’s turn.

Annan plays himself, a director.

The plot of "The Truman Show" is not complicated:
Truman is an ordinary bank employee living in a picturesque seaside town. He has a stable job, a loving wife and close friends, and gets along well with his neighbors. His life seems peaceful and happy.

However, one day, Truman suddenly noticed something strange in the town: passers-by repeated the same route, his wife suddenly inserted advertisements into the conversation, and a "magic lamp" fell from the sky and hit the ground. Even his father who drowned in childhood suddenly appeared as a homeless man and was quickly taken away by a mysterious person.

These anomalies made Truman doubt his life. He recalled Sylvia, the girl he fell in love with at first sight in college. She tried to reveal the truth to him, and then was forcibly taken away as a "mental patient." He secretly investigated and found that everyone around him was acting out some kind of invisible script:
His wife is a nurse but she doesn't know how to treat wounds and is even advertising.

Truman confided his doubts to his friend, but his friend always stopped him with sensational words at the critical moment.

Truman tried to leave the town because he saw his father drown in the sea when he was a child. Truman, who was afraid of the sea, chose to leave from the bridge, but then he encountered a carriage breakdown, trucks blocked the streets, and finally even the bridge leading to the island was destroyed by a meteorite. They told him that rat people were wreaking havoc outside and only the town was safe.

Truman, who firmly believed that these were all lies, faked his death, deceived the ubiquitous sneak shots of the magic stone, and steered the small wooden boat to the sea. The mastermind of all this, director Annan, tried to create a storm to awaken his psychological shadow and force him to turn back.

But Truman, who was struggling in the storm, was extremely determined, overcame his fear, and left the area of ​​the storm. Then, in a quiet bay, he ran into a huge wall painted with blue sky and white clouds - it turned out that "Seaview Island" was a huge studio covered with a dome. His life was a reality show that was broadcast live to Allen Continent all the time, and all his relatives and friends were actors.

Faced with the director's dissuasion that "the world outside is just as fake and dangerous", Truman said the famous line with a smile, then pushed open the exit that symbolized the cage and stepped into the unknown real world.

The Truman Show and Bet365 look very similar, both of them are about the protagonists pursuing freedom, but Truman is more relaxed and soothing than the latter.

Just like the line in "Bettar's Redemption", "There is a kind of bird that cannot be caged, and every feather of its bird sparkles with the light of freedom", it represents Andy's desire to break free from the cage.

And "The Truman Show" is a relief and reconciliation of "If I never see you again, good morning, good afternoon and good night."

So Katerina said that Mr. Faru Barros was more suitable for the role of Truman than herself. She could play the former, but she couldn't play the relaxation of Faru Barros' reconciliation with the past.

In the last scene, Annan and the crew watched Faro Barros standing in front of the steps on the wall painted with blue sky and white clouds, with his back to the open exit door, and making a stage play curtain call gesture to everyone. "If I never see you again, I wish you good morning, good afternoon, and good night."

"Click."

As Annan raised his hand, "The Truman Show" was officially completed.

The quiet crew members applauded one after another. Faro Barros' excellent performance made them feel like they were not working at all. It was like they were watching a magical movie called "The Truman".

"It's incredible. He didn't make a single mistake. He got everything right in one go..."

For Faro Barros in the past, making a mistake in front of princes and ministers meant ridicule and lack of reward, so he tried his best to avoid making mistakes.

Amid the exclamations and whispers, Annan came before Faru Barros.

"From now on, everyone will call you Truman or Faro Barros, and no one will call you 'the clown king in the north' anymore."

"Thank you, Lord Annan..."

At this moment, Faro Barros and Truman's lives merged into one, as they both broke free from the shadows of the past and embraced a new future.

Faru Barros is Truman, and Truman is Faru Barros.

"I should be the one to say thank you. You gave us the most perfect performance." Seeing Faru Barros choking up, Annan said something to ease the mood, "Who asked you to play yourself?"

"I think soon people on the street will no longer talk about Jack, but your name, Truman."

Annan is confident. Whether it is the level of sophistication or the advanced concepts of "The Truman Show", such as magic TV and reality shows, they are unprecedented. However, advertising in magic images is not a precedent.

Those shameful magical images, which consist of only two or several people or no people, male and female or both female or both male, have long been advertised, with products placed or a few lines spoken before the scene where a "fierce battle" is about to take place.

However, their approach is still too awkward and stiff, and cannot compare to Annan's natural integration of advertising and plot.

Olmedo also worries that if he comes up with too many new things at once, imitators will follow suit and he will lose his advantage.

Annan said it was nothing, as he still had the real killer weapons such as trailers, hype, and tours to bring out. To put it bluntly, if Annan had spread the word about his cameo role, The Truman Show would definitely be more popular among young men and women, but he just didn't want to steal Faro's limelight.

The Truman Show began to warm up, and Annan decided that the premiere time and the debt deadline were the same day.

With only five days left in the month, savings banks around the world have already collected more than 600 million kinaes for Annan.

Therefore, he was not in a hurry to launch "The Truman Show" to make money. He spent all day discussing the affairs of the imperial delegation with his elder sister and Olmedo.

It is not known whether they or the Archbishop of the Church of Fortune would arrive first.

(End of this chapter)