The Best Actor in the Vase of Meiyu

Chapter 1138 Brainstorming
Wait patiently, wait quietly, the entire screening room is waiting.

However, even after all the subtitles were finished, there was no turning point -

Snapped.

The lights in the screening room gradually brightened, stinging Nicholas' eyes. He closed his eyes reflexively, thinking he would burst into tears, but he didn't.

On the contrary, my eye sockets were so dry that I could still feel the stinging pain when I closed my eyes. It felt like I had been working all night for three consecutive nights and couldn't close my eyes.

All kinds of thoughts surged in my mind.

But how should it be described?

It was rare that Nicholas felt at a loss for words and unable to express himself accurately.

Almost everyone has thought about this at least once:
If things could be overturned and started over again, would everything be perfect?
If those sorrows and pains had not happened, how much happiness and joy would be left in life?
If you could change one thing, would your life be complete?

"What if", a hypothetical question, contains countless emotions such as remorse, regret, greed, desire, unwillingness, anger, grievance, etc. I can't help but think that if I had a chance to do better again, everything would be different if that tragedy had not happened.

However, only a very small number of people are willing to accept a reality:
Pain and suffering are also part of life.

Without sadness, there would be no joy; without tests, happiness would not be so profound; on the opposite side of victory, one needs to endure the tempering of failure.

Everything is relative.

Perfection does not exist, because everything has both positive and negative sides. Trying to deny one side may result in completely destroying everything.

Darkness is often the background color that breeds dawn. Otherwise, just like sunlight to polar day and darkness to the wilderness, they both lose their meaning.

It is precisely those pains, those tortures, those frustrations, those things that we try our best to deny and resist, that polish our character and soul bit by bit, and finally make us who we are today.

To deny them is essentially to deny oneself.

So, at the end of the movie, Evan killed himself with his umbilical cord.

However, this is not inspirational chicken soup for the soul, nor is it an inspirational chicken blood story.

This is a tragedy, a complete tragedy, a philosophical tragedy.

Because Evan wiped out his own existence with his own hands and disappeared completely.

Also because Evan believes that everyone can be happy in a world without him, this is a complete denial of himself.

do you remember?

Evan once had happiness. He went to college, was handsome and charming, grew up healthily, and never had blackouts again. But everything began to fall apart when he tried to play God, correct mistakes and pursue perfection.

Humans, oh humans, it's always like this.

I have tried to play God again and again, tried to control the fate of others and tried to change my own fate, but there has never been a positive result.

Tragedy, tragedy, and tragedy.

However, has humanity learned its lesson?

No, it doesn't. Human beings keep repeating the same mistakes in the cycle of tragedy again and again.

It is greed, arrogance and hubris. Just like the "seven deadly sins", people can never escape the shackles of human nature and sin.

Will Tommy, Keller, Lanny, and Andrea know that there is such a person who sacrificed himself for their happiness?

The answer is cruel.

They won't.

Because Evan had killed himself, he had never existed in this world. Only the audience in the cinema knew that he had existed, magnificently and vigorously, but finally disappeared in the wind. This is the saddest and most desperate part.

Perhaps, the real way to be happy is to face those scars and pains calmly, give up the fantasy of perfection, don't linger on the past, firmly grasp every moment in front of you, and write the future with your own hands.

Ah.

Everyone understands this simple truth, so is there a need for movies to teach it?

But the most absurd thing about reality is that we always learn the simplest truth in the most painful way, because arrogance and arrogance often blind our eyes, and we forget those things that we take for granted if we are not careful.

Nicholas let out a long, drawn-out breath. It seemed as if he had used up all his strength to complete such a simple action. The vicissitudes and fatigue from the depths of his soul could not be shaken off.

In just two hours, it felt like he had experienced three lifetimes with Evan. Now he finally understood the feeling that the child in "Yi Yi" described.

“I think I’m getting old too.”

In that movie, there is a line like this: I thought if I lived again, maybe things would be different, but the result was still the same, nothing different. I just suddenly felt that if I lived again, it seemed unnecessary.

Who could have thought that after watching "The Butterfly Effect", Nicholas collapsed on the spot, and the memory awakened in his mind was the completely unrelated "Yi Yi".

Involuntarily, the corners of my mouth slightly raised, and I felt a sense of happiness——

It’s nice to watch a movie.

No reason, just purely admiring that they can watch movies, immerse themselves in the world of light and shadow, prolong their lives and open up the world.

The sadness and bitterness faded a little, and other mixed emotions surged up. The chaotic brain finally became a little clearer, the strength returned to the body, and the fingertips felt the temperature again.

A tingling sensation.

Finally, I came back to my senses.

At this time, Nicholas sat up straight and looked around.

what happened?

The lack of applause is normal, after all, not all movie premieres are greeted with thunderous applause, and this isn't the Toronto Film Festival. Also, the movie's ending isn't a conventional one that brings tears to one's eyes and makes one's heart race, so it wasn't like I felt excited for a while.

However, there was no leaving, no discussion, no movement, which was very strange.

Could it be that... other viewers don't like it?
No way? Anson's first film flopped? Sure enough, the ending of the movie is still too sad and tragic, right?

Nicholas was also very surprised. He had never expected that Anson would like this type of movie.

Not only as a producer, this role, this story, and this genre are all special; plus, this is the first time Anson has challenged a non-vase role, and using his performance to inject soul into the role, which has further tested Anson's taste.

As a result, Nicholas found Anson's choice of such a work very interesting.

However, the market reaction is... difficult to predict.

After all, this is not hard science fiction, nor is it an adventure action film disguised as science fiction, but a brain-burning type of science fiction. Although it has a group of loyal audiences, it is still difficult to promote and is still a bit niche overall.

Plus this ending... the male protagonist actually disappeared? Isn't this a bit too bold?
call.

Nicholas let out a long breath and was worried about Anson.

Nicholas thought seriously about whether he should take the lead in applauding to liven up the atmosphere. As long as one person applauded, would the others at least give him some face, right?

But at this moment, there was a rustling noise coming from the front.

what happened?
(End of this chapter)