Sunday, September 10, 2006

Los Angeles, 28c~18c, yin, no wind/southwest light wind, deficit convex moon, precipitation 0.00 mm

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The empty screening room was very quiet, with only the sound of the movie.

On the big screen, Rex Williamson is a middle-aged man who dreams of making money by digging opals. For this reason, he and his wife Anne, 11-year-old son Ashmore and 9-year-old daughter Kellyan moved to a remote mining town. Most of the residents in the town are engaged in this business and related peripheral work.

Rex has been coming to mining for almost a year and has not gained anything yet. The family of four lives a very poor life, but fortunately the family is harmonious and happy. However, Kellyan is introverted and seems to be a bit abnormal in spirit. She has no friends, except for the two imagined: Poppy and Dinggen.

Kellyan believed in the existence of Poppy and Dinggen. He also had to place two more seats on the dining table and two dishes, and his two friends followed her.

Although the family felt that this was abnormal, in order to make the lonely Carrie Ann happy, she would cooperate with her to pretend that Bobby and Dinggen existed. One day, Rex hoped that his daughter would meet some real friends. Under his advice, he and Ashmo took Bobby and Dinggen to mining together, while Annie took Carrie Ann to participate in community activities.

Rex's mine collapsed, but fortunately, he was fine. Rex climbed onto the ground in a mess, left with Ashmo in an upset, went to the bar, and then went home in the evening. Both of them completely forgot about Poppy and Dingen.

Kellyan, who was about to pick up his friend, found that the seat belts in the rear seats of the car were untied. Bobby and Dinggen did not come back, and they were gone. They might still be in the mining area. Under her temper, Rex and his son took her to the mining area to find Bobby and Dinggen.

"Look at it! I saw them running behind the winch, did you see it? Little Princess?"

"No, Poppy won't run because his legs are made of wood and he has to walk slowly. Remember?"

"……you're right."

"It's really good, dad."

"Stop talking sarcastic? Ashmo."

“Ahhh.”

"Look quickly, dad, Poppy! Dinggen! Look quickly, dad, you shout too."

"Bobi...Dinggen..."

"No, be like this, Poppy! Dingen!"

"Oh OK OK, Poppy! Dingen!"

The film has been played for 20 minutes, and the cinema in front of the big screen is just even more lonely. A viewer left early. Except for saying hello at the beginning, Ye Wei and Lily did not say anything again. They just watched the movie silently and felt the quiet flow of emotions.

"Bobi, Dinggen." Ye Wei suddenly called out lightly.

Lily also had a call in her mind, she opened her mouth slightly but didn't say anything, Poppy, Dinggen.

The messy mood disturbed everything, and she really found him. This was not a coincidence. From Friday night to now, she has watched every "Opin Dream" in the Landmark Cinema in the past three days... Maybe it can be considered a coincidence. He doesn't go to see anything else, maybe he has a little tacit understanding and fate with him... Is this point?

On the big screen, because Kellyan was having a quarrel, Rex and the other two walked into the mining area next to him to continue searching. They were caught by the mine owner Sid and insisted that they were here to steal the mine. This violated the law and morality of the town. Under Sid's big fuss, the police could not listen to what Rex said, "It's just looking for Bobby and Dingen." The case will be tried by the court.

The Williamson family was despised and resisted by the entire town. Rex was forced by the gang of Sid and other places to be unable to mine in the mine, and the miscellaneous house in the front yard was blown up. Rex went to settle the score with Sid and others but was beaten up. The weak local police could not take care of him, so he had to run to another country where opal had never been found to be mined.

Under pressure from the town, Anne, who works in a convenience store, was fired; Ashmo was mocked and bullied by the teenagers in the school; the worst thing was that Carrie Ann, who lost two friends, was sick, vomited, had a fever, and was in a bad mood. The doctors in the town were helpless, and her condition became worse day by day.

Seeing her sister like this, Ashmo was determined to help her find Poppy and Dingen. He asked her to draw their portraits. With the kind help of the convenience store owner, he copied the portraits all over the town. But this just made Williamson's house completely a laughing stock. Rex and Anne had a quarrel, and the family seemed to be about to part.

Kelian felt that Poppy and Dinggen might have died because of the mine collapse. She asked Ashmo to go under the mine to take a look.

Ashmo mustered up the mining area where they were no longer allowed to set foot in, and ventured down his mine. He found an opal in the collapsed pile of ores, an opal with a dendroop in the belly button! He went home and told Kellyan that she saw the opals, and they were really dead. (The image shows imagination, not fact: the opal was given to him by another kind-hearted gem cutter.)

Seeing Dinggen's opal, Kellyan cried sadly. She asked Ashmo to hold a funeral for Bobby and Dinggen and bury them well. Ashmo made a deal with the fat uncle who specialized in the tomb business in the town, and the opal was exchanged for a complete funeral.

On this day, Anne had to go to the city hospital for treatment with serious illness, while Rex and Ashmo went to the town court to attend the trial of the case. With the help of the gem cutter who acted as lawyers, convenience store owner, doctor and other witnesses, Rex told the judge the truth in court, "Pobby and Dinggen" and imitated how to find them.

Despite the burst of laughter, the judge from the city believed Rex's side and sentenced Rex to not guilty and regained the mining rights. The judge advised the residents to treat each other well, especially Kellyan, not to hurt a innocent little girl.

The court fell silent, Ashmo stood up, he told everyone about the funeral and invited everyone to attend, because the more people believed in the existence of Poppy and Dingen, the more relieved Carriean would be and the disease would be cured faster. The case ended, and the residents responded inconsistently.

On Saturday, the funeral of Poppy and Dinggen was held in the town cemetery. Almost all the town residents came, and Rex also brought the thin Carriean from the hospital. Under the testimony and prayer of everyone, Poppy and Dinggen were buried.

"By bye, Poppy bye bye, Dingen." Kellyan personally scattered lollipops to the two coffins in the tomb, and people scattered flowers one after another.

After the funeral, everyone dispersed with relief. The fat uncle returned the opal to Ashmo, exempting all the expenses of the funeral.

And obviously, Kellyan will get better and Anne will get her job again.

"When you believe something, it's true. The same is true for fantasy friends, how they dream and how they share their dreams, whether they are with you, or when they leave. Because dreams are forever, just like my mom, my dad and my sister, we dream together, it's true, and it's always true."

In Ashmo's narration, he and his father Rex climbed down the mine again on the big screen, continuing to pursue their opal dreams.

With soft music, the end of the film, the ending cast rolled on the screen, and there were very sporadic applause in the screening room, just the two people in the middle seats.

"What a good movie." Ye Wei applauded vigorously while exclaiming with emotion.

The simplicity of technology did not make the film lose its color, but instead had a kind of desolate town essence. The moving emotions overflowed in the ordinary. Ashmo almost burst into tears when he saw his father being beaten by bullies. The warm ending finally made the story perfect.

"Yes." Lily clapped, like his tone at the beginning, yes.

"I think Poppy and Dinggen are childlike innocence and childlike fun." Ye Wei looked at the big screen and talked about his experience of watching the movie: "When we were young, each of us had them, but we didn't know when they started, and they died unconsciously. Even you can't detect and search for them. It seems that they have never existed, as if they have always been fake."

"They are real, they used to be..." Lily said softly.

Ye Wei continued: "Kelian is very willful, even annoying. In fact, she is the cutest one. She is still innocent and childlike in the whole town. Others don't understand her and laugh at her, not because she was wrong, but because her child dreams conflict with the cold and boring reality.

Carriean was not willful or nervous at all. She was just obsessed with her dreams. Reality made her sick. Her light made Ashmo, Rex, everyone... see the innocence and childlike fun again, even if it was just broken corpses. They buried them with their own hands, and Carriean finally buried them."

"This is just..." He paused, and as the show ended, the applause gradually stopped, and he finished reluctantly: "The passing of innocence and childlike fun is unstoppable, and some beauty will always become the past. But we have two new friends, love and dreams! If you believe, they exist; if you don't believe, they do not exist."

"Believe it is not easy, no matter what you believe." Lily gradually stopped applause.

"Yes, some things are hard to believe, but if you want it to exist and realize, you must first believe it." Ye Wei suddenly laughed, "I think this is what "Opin Dream" roughly says. A good movie is quite cool and worth the fare."

"Absolute." Lily whispered softly, the movie was about to end, and her heart began to tighten with discomfort, as if a rope was tied to pull it to both sides. What will happen next?

In the past three days, she had already felt his same feelings again and again, but she could not give her any answers. This is not a problem that can be solved by watching movies, and I don’t know how to solve it, so I can only be considered a solution.

Ye Wei suddenly felt that she turned her head and looked at him... looking at him...

He slowly turned his head and looked at her, the beautiful face that appeared in his heart all the time, Lily.

After a while of silence, she frowned slightly at her heroic eyebrows, "hello?"

Time seemed to have returned to the cuttlefish operation in late autumn, and he met her at the beginning. At that time, because he had watched her for too long, she asked "hello?" He suddenly thought that if he had just met her today, without those regrets and mistakes, it might have been the beginning of a love story.

With a chaotic mind, Ye Wei said, "Hello, my name is...Angus Leaf, I'm very happy to know you."

I don’t know what my thoughts were, but he said that he was not Ye Wei, he was ang-leaf.ang is the love god of Celtic mythology. He was very bad when he was young, and everyone was afraid of him. Later, he fell in love with the beautiful fairy caer and married her as his wife to get better. ang has the "only" meaning, and leaf is Ye Zi.

"Oh..." Lily was stunned when she heard this, her eyes blinked. She thought for a while before responding: "My name is Yishita Vitage, I'm very happy to know you."

Ye Wei couldn't help but smile. She was not Lily Collins, she was ishtar-vintage.ishtar is the god of love in Sumerian mythology, with many versions of legends. In the Babylonian epic, Yishita was saved by the hero Gilgamesh. She courted him because of admiration and gratitude, but was sternly rejected by the latter because Yishita was fickle and unkind to treat her ex-boyfriend. The resentful Yishita asked her father for a divine cow that could only bring drought. She went down to the kingdom of Gilgamesh to carry out crazy revenge, and was later defeated by both Gilgamesh and Enchi. Vintage is wine, antique, old, outdated, and the best; collins means iced fruit wine.

He used to read the myth of the world with her. She said Yishita is the female version of Heathcliff. He said that all human stories originated from myths because they happened in some way. She was not Yishita, she was just sarcastic about him, maybe she was joking?

al and iv, ia and vl, they are actually them.

"Your name is very interesting." Ye Wei said with a smile.

"So too." Lily smiled, it was hard to understand why. Now looking at him and facing him, she felt much more relaxed and relaxed, as if she was a new friend she had just met... She said: "You look very much like one of my ex-boyfriends, and his name is Wei."

Ye Wei didn't expect her to say that. In fact, I don't know why she was here. Did you meet her by chance? Compared to when she said that phone call last Sunday night, her emotions were much calmer, and the unspeakable loss was even heavier. He said: "What a coincidence, you look like one of my ex-girlfriends, and her name is Lily."

"That's a coincidence." she said.

When the movie is about to end, it will always end. Ye Wei took the initiative to say, "Do you have time to hang out for a while? I'm quite close to you."

"Okay, let's hang out for a while." Lily nodded.

Both of them stood up with mixed feelings and walked out of the cinema.

...

"I am from Los Angeles. I was born and raised here. I think I have developed many bad habits in Los Angeles. In summary, there are many idiotic aspects."

"I'm half a Los Angeles native. I came from London, England when I was a child. When I was 5 years old, most of the memories in Britain were blurred, and there were only some unpleasant things left. It's strange..."

"No wonder, humans always remember fear deeply, but happiness will be forgotten very quickly, and then they will seek unsatisfiedly throughout their lives. And those fears... will accompany them throughout their lives, some become the past, and some are still there."

"Is that so sad."

"It's much better than animals. Life remembers fear. This is the law of survival, but humans have the ability to overcome fear. So you know how to say you can say Yingyin?"

"I will, that's my child voice. I go back to the UK every summer, usually for a month, and I have tried to live there all summer long. It's okay. In the United States, people say that the British voice is ridiculed and pretended, and in the United Kingdom, people say that the American voice is ridiculed and rude. When I was a child, I care a lot, but now I'm out of the way."

"I just think it's cool. At least Poppy can say English-sounding, and Dinggen says American-sounding. I've been to many places, and there are very few in the UK, but I'm a football fan. I love football and I like to watch the Premier League."

"Which team are you a fan?"

"Manchester United, it's a bit vulgar for such a wealthy family, but who asked them to wear red jerseys? I like red."

"The same is true for my ex-boyfriend. He likes Manchester United the most. He also dreams of wearing Manchester United jerseys, and he wears No. 6."

Under the night sky, the Landmark Cinema was brightly lit and tourists were constantly coming and going. Ye Wei and Lily were strolling and chatting. As soon as they walked out of the cinema, they were going to the cafe on the street, or just walked like that. Both of them were very slow, and from the beginning they were restrained and became generous, she called him Gus, he called her Yi Shi, a new pair of friends.

Lily looked at the starry sky and said, waving her hands a few times to make herself more natural, "I don't understand him. I used to think I understand him best, but I don't."

Ye Wei looked at her. She was wearing a white long-sleeved jacket, dark red casual trousers and white sneakers, carrying a beige-brown crossbody bag, rolled up a piece of sleeves with her hands, and a fashionable silver bracelet on her left wrist. She was fresh and youthful, with light brown medium-length hair draped down her shoulders, her heroic eyebrows and bright eyes, and her delicate red lips all radiate a fairy-like beauty.

He tried his best to control himself not to hold her hand or hug her, and asked in a curious tone: "What's wrong with you?"

"Where are you?" Lily looked at him. The 22cm height difference made her need to look up slightly. His tall body was wearing a thin black leather jacket, faded blue jeans and black sneakers. He looked handsome and looked so clever.

Seeing her looking, he frowned his beautiful sword eyebrows and said slowly: "I...I don't understand her either. I used to think I had a spiritual connection with her, but then... now, I think she is very mysterious and erratic, and I can't guess...I don't understand her thoughts."

Lily turned to look at the vehicles passing by on the avenue, and walked past a lively restaurant before she spoke: "Gus, how did you break up?"
To be continued...