China Entertainment: I have been a director since 05

Chapter 457 Sympathy, disgust, thrill and pleasure! Shocked Cannes for a whole year! !
The movie begins with a group of students drinking milk.

The advertising placement was very well done, with Yili milk appearing on the movie screen and given a sufficient close-up.

The heroine, Teacher Wang Sen, told everyone on the podium that she would be leaving her job soon.

The students below cheered.

From the very beginning of the filming, the overall tone presents a strange and dark feeling.

This feeling made Gong Li feel uncomfortable.

It just made her confirm that this was definitely not a romance movie.

"The name is deceiving, isn't it?"

Gong Li was slightly startled, but continued watching.

On the stage, Teacher Wang Sen told students stories about outstanding teachers in China, such as the story of Beichuan who sacrificed his life for his students. Compared with them, she thought she was very incompetent because she did not believe in her students.

During the conversation, she also talked about a story that she once told about how she was tricked into going to a hotel at school because a male teacher helped a female student. In the end, she was photographed without doing anything and became disgraced.

So for her, when she encounters such things, she will find other same-sex teachers to help her.

Then the chalk rubbed against the blackboard, accompanied by a harsh sound.

She wrote the word "life" on it!

At this point in the movie, most of the audience felt extremely weird.

Johnnie To and Nansun Shi glanced at each other, with confusion in their eyes.

Hou Hsiao-hsien looks calm and composed.

Ning Hao smiled.

Fan Bingbing was a little confused.

Gong Li squinted her eyes, not knowing what she was thinking.

Then the teacher began to tell a story.

She is a single mother and her daughter's name is Wang Zimei.

Her nickname is Zimei.

At first, her family was very happy, but before getting married, she found out that her boyfriend had AIDS, so the marriage did not take place.

It was just an accident that her boyfriend got AIDS, and they are still quite loving to each other.

But because she was already pregnant, the child was kept.

Fortunately, she did not develop an infection.

In this way, as long as they do not get married, the child will not be questioned in the future about having a father with AIDS.

Life could be simpler.

Teacher Wang Sen's love for her daughter is very multi-faceted. As long as she is not working, she devotes almost all of her heart to Zimei. She even hired a nanny for Zimei, but unfortunately, the nanny was hospitalized this year.

Therefore, Teacher Wang Sen could only bring the child to school and temporarily place him in the school's parent-child room while waiting. Every time she got off work, she would take Zimei home with her.

Zimei’s favorite toy is a cartoon image of Meiyangyang.

Her students should have seen these, because the camera flashed and Gong Li saw a montage similar to a memory. When Zimei was clinging to her mother in the mall to buy Meiyangyang, her students saw this scene.

This day, after finishing grading homework in the office.

Wang Sen only found his daughter's body in the school pond...

The police concluded that Zimei slipped and fell into the water accidentally.

Without surveillance, there is naturally no truth.

But Teacher Wang discovered that the cartoon image of Meiyangyang was missing.

At this stage of the story, Gong Li was already getting goose bumps.

It’s called “Confessions”, but the plot, tone, and even the soundtrack of this drama give people a sense of horror.

Especially the death of a little girl and the word "life" that the teacher had written on the blackboard earlier, made all the feelings in my heart converge at this moment.

It also made Gong Li feel a little cold in her heart.

The next moment, the teacher's tone at the podium was flat and very grim.

She looked around at everyone and whispered, "In fact, there is another hidden story about Zimei!"

The film has reached this stage.

Everyone knows that this is definitely not a romance movie!

Mystery film?
Suspense film?
It is not clear yet.

But everyone only knew that the shock they felt at this moment was too great.

"Is this a mother's confession to her dead daughter? She would do anything for love, so I guess, is this a revenge film?"

Xing Nana was next to Ning Hao, and Ning Hao had never discussed the content of the play with her before.

In fact, although Xing Na is a screenwriter, she always seems indifferent to her husband's movies unless they both revise the script together.

Although Ning Hao had read this script, he did not tell Xing Nana about it in order to avoid Xing Nana being influenced by other scripts when she wrote her own script later.

But a screenwriter is a screenwriter, and Xing Nana did guess the direction of the story.

But Ning Hao knew the final outcome.

He knows that this is just the tip of the iceberg of the crazy scenes in this movie.

Wang Sen looked at the students, his voice flat and indifferent.

"Students, you can use your brains to think about what can protect you?"

The plain narration of the story seems to be Teacher Wang Sen’s sharing, and also seems to be a shift of the camera.

All the explosive news that have appeared in Taiwan in recent years have been shared with everyone one by one.

For example, some indescribable incidents that often occur even in 2024, causing a wave of public opinion on a certain short video platform and are enough to make people indignant.

Some of the people who appear in the movie are of this type.

The lens tilted slightly.

The murderer appears.

Another shot appears.

That day, in the Internet cafe on the corner.

There was an argument and conflict between a new teenager and the gangsters.

He was still young and couldn't fight back, so he ran away to the police station.

After criticizing and educating him, we contacted his teacher, Mr. Wang.

Teacher Wang asked the male teacher in the same office to come and pick him up, and the male teacher came.

However, because he went to Internet cafes during school hours, he was given a serious warning and placed on probation.

It also takes two weeks to clean up the fallen leaves around the pond.

Because of this, his mentality became unbalanced.

The following plot is difficult to describe with common sense, but the audience at the scene all felt that their hearts were ignited.

Just because of a small thing, it eventually led to his wrong choice.

A delicate flower withered.

Every audience member clenched his fist. In their hearts, there was anger and fire.

“It’s a tragedy.”

Xing Nana said silently. At this moment, there was a hint of fear and an inexplicable sense of compassion in her heart.

“Man is born good. The Three Character Classic that we Chinese have been teaching is a kind of nourishment, and more importantly, a teaching judgment.” Xing Nana felt a little uncomfortable. When she watched the movie herself, she could feel why Mencius had that negotiation that became famous all over the world.

Not you, not you, are a fish.

But the thought of good and evil.

One thought is heaven, while the other thought can only be filled with endless regrets. This is true for everyone.

Until the tragedy happened at the end of the movie.

Those inexplicable emotions and smiles are unforgettable fears in the hearts of all the audience!
A sense of powerless tragedy soon surged into the hearts of many people.

Ning Hao couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

He has thick black eyebrows and usually likes to shoot some tragic content, but at this moment, his heart still suddenly tightened.

But the murderer in the movie has a hard heart.

There is no sense of guilt. A murder has taken place, there is a clue, there is an ending, but the only thing that makes people unable to understand the crime process is the movie.

The pace of all this is very fast, and when it reaches this stage, the video is played.

Everyone already knows that this play is a suspense film.

It's not even a mystery film.

The cause and effect of the play are all there.

Once there is a victim, the murderer appears, and the murderer's behavior also has a criminal motive.

Everything finally forms a closed loop.

Only those heart-wrenching scenes of the girl and sporadic fragments remained in front of everyone's eyes, making people feel extremely helpless.

"How will this movie go on?"

The audience below all had a feeling that it would never happen again.

At this point, Xing Na was also feeling very uncomfortable, because as a screenwriter, she didn't know how the story would play out later.
“She thought it was reasoning and revenge, but now that the truth has been revealed, reasoning is completely useless.

And revenge? Just report it to the authorities. How to take revenge? "

Fan Bingbing was also full of confusion.

This drama gave her a weird feeling, making it difficult for her to breathe. There was always an inexplicable feeling pressing on her chest.

She was full of sympathy for the little girl, but at the same time, she was filled with hatred and horror towards the two murderers.

"Just such a small matter, is it necessary to cause such a tragedy...?"

Fan Bingbing felt very disgusted.

As a viewer, she wanted to report the murderer on the screen immediately to the authorities!

She also has a younger brother, so she knows that children must be well educated.

The people in the movie obviously need to be retrained.

Apart from the color tone, the plot of the movie as a whole is actually straightforward and does not give people any sense of surprise. This is a little surprising to people who are familiar with Guan Ling's screenwriting style.

It’s a bit like the previous "The Devotion of Suspect X", in which the murderer was told at the beginning.

It’s just that the movie continued with disguise and gave people a desire for love.

It is obvious that the follow-up to this drama will be difficult to develop.

Although the current plot feels a bit boring, no one leaves the scene.

Because in Guan Ling's movies, there is always a reversal afterwards.

Teacher Wang Sen is still continuing to speak.

"In fact, for someone who still watches Pleasant Goat and Beautiful Goat, the little torture toy he made himself would naturally not cause the final case."

Her narration was bland.

It seemed that all this had nothing to do with her, but those voices still made the audience's hair stand on end.

It was no coincidence that people previously thought they were instigated.

The whole movie ushered in a shocking reversal.

"She should have reported it to the police."

Xing Nana looked at Ning Hao and said, "We must believe that there is still a sense of justice and fairness in this world."

Ning Hao nodded, "Those who instigated it should also take their own responsibilities."

In the movie, Wang Sen walked down from his desk very calmly.

Round and round, she stopped where she was supposed to.

Teacher Wang Sen finally stopped talking.

She looked at the two young men.

"Was the milk good at first?" she asked, then smiled.

The plot of the movie tells the story of this reversal. It turns out that the very beginning of the shot is the answer to this confession.

All the plots and all the content are a complete reversal from the warm and playful scenes of drinking milk at the very beginning of the movie!
Teacher Wang Sen smiled, and his smile was very calm.

She slowly wiped the words on the blackboard, as if she was wiping away someone's sins.

But she knew that this was not the end.

"Great!" The previous plot was too depressing!

As soon as this scene appeared, it instantly caused an uproar at the scene!
At this moment, all the previous horror scenes instantly turned into endless pleasure!

Many viewers exclaimed in surprise!

Extremely depressing.

Creates ultimate sympathy.

The extreme sympathy makes countless people feel tense.

All the simplest stories in Chinese history were materialized at this moment.

"Speak with justice! Repay evil with justice, and repay kindness with kindness!"

"I am unruly and want revenge. I swear to cut off my head with blood and tears!"

"This reminds me of a sentence in the Analects of Confucius, 'Return it! Return it! The young men of my party are wild and simple, and they have made brilliant articles, so I edited them..."

Xing Nana said.

"It's not over yet!"

Xing Nana howled with excitement, "That's not enough!"

Ning Hao frowned when he heard this. "What does that quote from the Analects have to do with this movie?"

"Didn't it say that Confucius fired him?! Isn't this revenge?"

Ning Hao was completely numb.

"Caizhi, do you mean to lay off people? Lay off employees? Or is it tailoring? You are sewing people!"

But before she could explain, Xing Nana quickly shut her mouth.

The plot of the movie continues to develop!
After Teacher Wang Sen left, a new class teacher was appointed in the new semester, and boy B did not come to school for a long time.

He was terrified and timid, and he had to make sure everything he encountered was spotless.

There are always terrible howling sounds.

The students sent him their blessings. Many of the words on the words were already scattered, but they still pieced together the simplest wishes.

"Go to trial, murderer!"

The mother was also terrified and asked for the truth.

But the answer she got was the death of the little girl, which was really the answer she least wanted to see.

Because before, the little girl had opened her eyes!
At this moment, the audience below had already fallen silent!
Countless people felt horrified by this final reversal.

His mother also broke down!

But in the subsequent movie clips, the murderer finally committed a crime that silenced the entire audience.

Then! The whole scene was silent!
A few minutes later.

Only then did someone speak slowly.

"I finally understand why this movie was shot in Taiwan." Zhen Zidan said to the people around him. This thing would definitely not be approved in the mainland.

Not even Guan Ling can do that.

But at this moment, the whole of Cannes was shocked.

It’s not like Cannes has never been without revenge films.

Last year's "A Better World," which competed with "The Father," was a revenge film.

But compared to "Confessions",

That play obviously doesn't have such strong tension.

Since Wang Sen's confession,
The whole scene was never quiet again!
Shocked!

In everyone's heart, the word "shock" rang out!

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(End of this chapter)