I'm just trying to ride the wave of popularity!

Chapter 195 Horrifying! He actually!

In the screening room.

Shen Long stared silently at the screen.

Although I followed Zhou Yang from beginning to end of the movie, the moment I actually sat in the theater and watched the movie start was truly amazing!
He then truly realized something.

It felt like a slap that landed squarely on his face.

His film *The Mine* piles up long shots to create an "artistic" effect, while Zhou Yang's version uses 10 minutes of mockumentary footage, employing a documentary style to turn "reality" into a sharp blade, directly pointing to the director's collusion between capital and art...

Mr. Zhou!
It's not that I don't understand art!

On the contrary, President Zhou's artistic attainments are unfathomable!

In front of President Zhou, all my so-called persistence, self-expression, and professionalism seemed like a joke.

this moment……

He lowered his head.

After closing my eyes and truly understanding myself, I finally opened them again. At that moment, I was free of any obsession with "art."

From now on, he will no longer pursue that bullshit art. He will follow Boss Zhou to make movies. Whatever Boss Zhou tells him to make, he will make!
..............................

The screening room remained deathly silent.

The only sounds on the screen were faint breathing and the rustling of coal chunks sliding down.

The howls and struggles, like those of a wild beast, gradually subsided.

Everyone saw "that person" in the camera pick up his phone again and keep making calls, but there was no sound.

My phone has completely lost signal!

The screen went dark once again.

Immediately afterwards...

"Click!"

The sound of bones dislocating echoed throughout the screening room!

In the screening room, the emotions of countless viewers were once again stirred.

On the screen, they saw the flickering light of a cell phone illuminating a leg that was strangely twisted...

That leg was completely crushed by the boulder, with some black blood seeping out from around it. Although it didn't look bloody, it was still horrifying!
The sound of collapse, accompanied by shaky camera work, rang out once again...

Next!

The camera is shaking more and more violently!
The faint light from the phone screen shone to the side, where, not far away, a crack appeared on the rotten piece of wood. Then, the crack grew larger and larger...

"boom!"

As the wood broke, the narrow and suffocating space instantly experienced a second collapse!

The screen was plunged into absolute darkness once again!
Amidst gasps and coughs, Liu Jiasheng heard the scraping sound of fingernails digging into the rock wall coming from deep within the mine. At first, it was a rapid, multi-finger effort, but later it became a mechanical repetition using only the middle finger…

Although the screen was dark, a scene appeared in Liu Jiasheng's mind!
That was it, trapped and struggling frantically with all its might...

Then, not long after...

I heard a sound that wasn't very clear, and it was even hard to hear clearly if I didn't listen carefully.

That sounded like the muffled crack of a fingernail breaking, mixed with a suppressed sob...

Liu Jiasheng had never seen anyone perform a desperate plea for survival in the dark, solely through sound...

It was still dark, but suddenly, a series of even more violent coughing sounds erupted from the darkness, as if someone was vomiting something.

His fiancée, standing beside him, turned pale and instinctively clutched her collar.

It wasn't just a simple cough; it was a gurgling sound with fluid sloshing around in the lungs, as if coal dust was rolling around in the alveoli.

Then, there was a brief silence.

The suffocating darkness was finally illuminated by a dim light.

This time, the camera finally switched to Zhou Yang's face, no longer filming in a simple documentary style.

This shift in perspective seems to be reminding everyone that this is a movie, not a documentary!

Then, when everyone saw Zhou Yang's face, they all covered their mouths!
They saw Zhou Yang's face, covered in coal dust and bloodstains, reflected on the screen...

His pupils contracted sharply in the dim light of his phone, blood and coal dust mingled at the corners of his mouth, and each breath was accompanied by the gurgling sound of fluid accumulating in his lungs…

Then, the camera slowly pans down, revealing his right leg crushed into a bizarre "V" shape by a boulder, with his shinbone piercing through the skin and exposed, and dark blood congealed around the wound!

"what!"

Suddenly, a piercing scream rang out in the screening room, startling everyone who instinctively looked in that direction.

They saw a girl in the corner, covering her mouth, tears streaming uncontrollably from her eyes…

Liu Jiasheng was startled and quickly told Zhang Ying to calm down...

Zhang Ying nodded and lowered her voice.

"Is this... a prop? His leg..."

Liu Jiasheng turned his head and stared at the "leg" for a moment, momentarily thinking it was a real leg. But then, reason told him that it was a prop!
This movie is so realistic that even a film critic like him, who watches movies all the time, thought it was a real documentary!
Yes!

It's a movie!
He reminded himself once again!

..............................

Germany.

In a private screening room next to the Berlin International Film Festival Organizing Committee, film critic Bass stared blankly at "The Mine".

His hands clenched into fists uncontrollably.

This movie...

This is completely different from all the other Chinese films that have applied before!
Not only are they completely different, but the more you look at them, the more terrifying they become!

He saw the sound "ho...ho..." appear on the screen!

He saw the camera and started trembling again!

It seems the third landslide is about to begin!

He saw the "protagonist" on the screen desperately trying to pull his foot out of the way it was pinned down by the boulder...

A scream filled with pain and despair, mixed with muffled thuds like something falling, came from above...

Below, coal slag seeping from the rock crevices was like an hourglass of death flowing backwards, constantly devouring the body of this Chinese man!

In the darkness not far away, cracks appeared as the tremors continued, and faint glimmers of light seemed to emerge...

That seems to be it!

The light of a miner's lamp? But, amidst the tremors of the earth, this light seemed to appear and disappear, and in the small area where Zhou Yang was staying, the last piece of rotten wood was gradually cracking!

As more and more stones fell, and as coal dust once again flooded the camera lens...

Everything, everything, points to one thing!

That is!
This way!

It's going to completely collapse!

Bass stared intently at the screen!

The intense sense of immersion made his breathing become heavy.

He saw on the screen that the figure was frantically trying to pull his foot away, but the foot not only had no feeling, but it also wouldn't move at all!

More and more stones are falling!
Some stones hit his back, and a growing sense of despair welled up inside him...

He frantically rummaged in his pockets and finally pulled out a small knife, a lighter, and a bottle of liquor to bolster his courage.

"Ho...ho...ho...ho..."

On camera, the breathing on that dark face suddenly became rapid. He trembled as he grabbed the dropped phone and used his teeth to bite the edge of the screen to illuminate that leg!
One of his hands is broken and he can't move it!

Only the other hand can move!

The one hand that could move trembled as it gripped the blood-stained knife!

Film critic Bass saw this scene!
My eyes widened instantly!
"This guy!"

"Isn't it possible?"

"Isn't it possible?"

The blade flashed in the darkness, drawing a cold arc, and Bass couldn't help but gasp!
He wants to amputate his limbs to survive!

The thought popped into my head!
This made it difficult for Bass to breathe instantly!
On the screen, the stones fell more and more frequently, and the coal dust seeping from the cracks in the rocks resembled a whirlpool, seemingly constantly devouring the body of the Chinese person on the screen.

The Chinese man took out a lighter and tried to light it with one hand, but his trembling fingers slipped three times. He finally lit it on the fourth try, and the flame illuminated the cracking rock above his head.

He seems to have reached a dead end!
He saw the Chinese man grit his teeth!

Next, he poured the liquor onto the blade and used the faint flame from a lighter to heat the not-so-sharp edge...

this moment!
The burnt smell of disinfectant seemed to penetrate the screen and linger in Bass's nostrils, making him widen his eyes.

then……

What did he see?
He saw the Chinese man and actually laughed!

That smile was twisted yet clear, as if it were mocking something!
His breathing was so heavy it felt like his lungs were about to explode!
"Pfft!"

He saw on the screen that the Chinese man had actually plunged a knife deep into his groin!
He was stunned!

Everything!
My God, this doesn't seem like an act!
On screen, the scene that shocked Bass the most appeared!

He saw the Chinese man convulsing all over, yet he was biting the corner of his phone tightly to prevent himself from fainting.

The flickering lights appeared and disappeared!
What's chilling is that there were no screams in the footage!

The only sounds were the scraping of fingernails against the rock wall, the clanging of bones against metal, and the faint gurgling of the Chinese man's throat, like a trapped beast struggling to break free of its cage.
although……

There was no bloodshed at all!
Despite the darkness, apart from the Chinese man's ferocious face, there was no close-up of his feet!
but……

That slightly eerie sound made Bass clutch his heart!

That pain didn't seem like acting!

That distorted face, that look in his eyes, it didn't seem like acting!
Oh shit!

This madman from China, would he really cut off his own leg for a movie?

Oh, God!
He couldn't help but stand up!

On the screen!
The camera finally gave us a close-up!
In the dim light, a hand with bulging veins was desperately sawing at a leg that was stuck in a crevice in the rock with a small knife.

Blood mixed with coal ash splattered between the saw teeth, and every three saw cuts were accompanied by a muffled groan like that of a wild beast...

Suddenly the camera shook violently again!

Three landslides struck Zhou Yang on the back, burying him completely in a pile of coal slag...

The suffocating sound of a nose filled with coal ash is amplified tenfold through a bone conduction microphone!
On the screen, only two bloodshot eyes remained, frantically darting about in the gaps between the coal slag...

But his hands didn't stop; instead, he started sawing frantically!

The sound of countless tiny stones hitting the ground mingled with the grinding of bones!

Every sound sent shivers down Bass's spine!
He couldn't help but grab his head, trembling, a sense of shock from the limits of his physical endurance welling up inside him.

This is him, this is his whole life!
The most unforgettable moment of my life!
"boom!"

With a muffled thud.

The severed limb finally broke free.

Black blood plasma splattered onto the lens like ink.

In the footage, the moment the severed limb was finally freed from the boulder, the Chinese man tightened the wound with a belt and dragged his bloodied and mangled body toward the crevice.

"boom!"

The moment he crawled out, the area completely collapsed, crushing everything!
At that moment, the phone, which had no signal, suddenly rang, accompanied by a burst of this "artistic" laughter.

Fuck your art!

"..."

In an instant!
The screen suddenly went completely black.

All that remained was a series of indistinct curses, even more deafening than the sound of a mining accident.

........................

Listen to the screams on the screen!

Film critic Liu Jiasheng couldn't help but stand up!

This roar exploded in the darkness, as if tearing apart all the hypocritical "narratives of suffering," pushing the irony of the entire film to its extreme!

But then...

He sat down again instinctively!

The movie isn't over yet!

and also!

The plot lasts about twenty minutes!

(End of this chapter)