CGV Myeongdong Cinema, it’s ten minutes before the movie starts.
"I've kept everyone waiting." Lin Chengxun stood in front of the largest screening room in the cinema, looking around at all the living beings in front of him. Although there were hundreds of thoughts among these people, no matter what they thought in their hearts, he had to deal with it.
He said thank you to these people for supporting his first movie "The Crucible".
I bent down at 90 degrees to thank you, then straightened up.
"Thank you all for your support. I won't go into too much detail. Please watch my film "The Crucible"."
After that, Lin Chengxun really walked directly to his seat, and his unique and short premiere speech actually aroused a lot of good-natured laughter.
Sitting on both sides of Lin Sung-hoon are the male and female protagonists of the movie "The Crucible": So Ji-sub still doesn't like to talk and is silent waiting for the movie to start. He is really passionate about this "The Crucible" and even
Unable to appear in the show, she almost got into a fight with Zhang Guang, the actor who plays Lee Kang Suk, several times. As for Park Ye Jin, because she originally thought she was just here to help, she unexpectedly took the lead in withdrawing her money. She had previously used the premiere movie in the cinema
The heroine's relationship has created a lot of friendships.
As for Xiao Zhiyan and Xiao Jingshu, even though they are actors in the movie "The Crucible", according to the Peninsula Film Rating System, they are under nineteen years old and they were not allowed to enter the premiere of the movie "The Crucible".
"Director Wuli, what are your thoughts now?" Park Ye-jin joked.
"What do you think? Does it count if you don't want to bow to others anymore?" Lin Chengxun replied to Park Yi-clin. He really hated the peninsula's rule that lower-generation people must bow first when meeting, but the situation was stronger than others and there was nothing he could do.
For the time being, I can only force myself to adapt to this.
"Haha, who doesn't want to do this?" Park Yi-chun sighed in a low voice and stopped talking. Su Ji-sub, who was sitting on the other side of Lin Chengxun, also had a similar look in his eyes when he heard this.
As the lights in the screening room went out, people watching the movie stopped communicating with the people around them. The screening room became quiet for a while, and only the sound of advertisements on the screen could be heard.
Don't get me wrong, it's not an advertisement for Lim Sung-hoon's movie, let alone an advertisement for Ping An Restaurant, but an advertisement brought by the cinema itself.
The commercial ends and the movie starts. The screen first turns dark, then a small light shines brightly in the center and expands. The screen becomes completely white, and then a trace of green emerges from the white.
It was a seedling, trembling in the wind, and its growth environment was completely different from the seedlings of green grass in the countryside, because it grew under the railroad tracks, and it was only in the hardships that it poked its weak body out of the gap beside the railroad tracks.
The opening of the film uses low-latitude shots, which made many film critics present have a little expectation for it, because the appearance of this seedling must contain what meaning?
Otherwise, if they put it at the beginning without giving it any meaning, then they can only say that the film is half a failure.
Immediately afterwards, the originally static picture became dynamic, the sound of the film became richer and fuller, the angle changed, and a figure in a suit and leather shoes walked from the distance in the camera, only showing the body below the chest. This seemingly successful man was walking in a hurry,
When facing this seedling, I stepped past it.
This scene made some moviegoers who knew the plot of "The Crucible" feel twitching in their hearts.
The video continues. After people pass by, the seedling does not collapse completely. It stands up strongly. At this moment, the panoramic color of the video is vivid for a moment. Then the huge roar goes from far to near and then further away, and the figure of the blue-black train appears, turning the movie
Light shading in .
This caused the audience's entire line of sight to be filled with the train's car body as it rushed away. The color of the film became dark and cold, and then the words "The Melting Pot" appeared in the center of the screen.
Was the color tone of this movie just set?
Lin Sung-hoon's method of expressing camera language made many film critics shine. They immediately stiffened and became interested in "The Crucible".
Film critics are born because of movies, and at the same time, movies will also cause topics because of the praise or abuse of film critics.
Therefore, the movie is not afraid of being criticized. What it is most afraid of is that critics are too lazy to criticize it.
This group of film critics came to watch the movie at the invitation of Bong Joon-ho. If they were sincere about the film's premiere, not to mention Lin Sung-hoon and even Bong Joon-ho didn't believe it.
Except for a few of them who were used by Bong Joon-ho through the plot and camera techniques of "The Crucible" in the drama, most of them came to give Bong Joon-ho a face to deal with errands. To be honest, this low-cost movie "The Crucible" is
Not interested at all.
No way, low cost, new director, idol TV actor, except for Gong Jiyong's signature as a screenwriter, which can make people a little interested, there is really no good capital.
"Easter egg?" Song Kanghao asked in a low voice to Bong Joon-ho beside him. He just vaguely saw a crushed gray figure in front of the train.
Bong Joon-ho turned to look at Song Kanghao in surprise. The little easter egg hidden at the beginning of the movie. Bong Joon-ho only remembered the black shadow at the beginning when he saw the end of the movie in the screening room. He did not expect that Song Kanghao's eyes were not big and the focus was quite good.
allow.
"Haha, you will know after reading it."
Time is passing and the video continues.
The story is told in a straightforward manner, the curtain opens, and the characters appear one by one. Kang In-ho, who was hesitant in the face of morality but was determined in the end; Kim Yeon-doo, who is naturally intelligent but became deaf-mute and disabled due to an accident; Chen Yuli, who is mentally retarded and deaf-mute, and was violated by the principal.
; Quan Minxiu, who is always molested and beaten by the perverted teacher for no reason; Seo Youzhen, who provides help to the male protagonist and comforts the children with the gentleness of a woman; and a series of villains, the two principals, brothers, and instructors
, dormitory supervisors, etc. These people who were originally respected and admired in society are now like demons on earth, carrying the flames of hell, turning the world into a melting pot.
The entire first half of the movie "The Crucible" is full of depression and despair. Just when the audience's nerves are squeezed to the extreme by the mirror image of the human melting pot in the first half of the movie, Jiang Inho appeals to the court.
The audience immediately heaved a sigh of relief. The relaxation after the half-time depression made them feel a little invigorated. But will Lin Chengxun let them completely relax?
Obviously not, the most shocking moment in the movie "The Crucible" has yet to come!
The plot continues to stretch, and the time of "The Crucible" is just over halfway, but it is like the ending of any other movie: the good guys blow the clarion call for counterattack, and the bad guys sit in the dock of the holy court waiting to be sentenced for their crimes.
However, the audience's cheers had barely begun before they were forcibly ended by the rhythm of the plot directed by Lim Sung-hoon.
Contrary to all expectations, in a social network dominated by power, money and capital, bad guys escape punishment.
"Axi!"
There was a faint noise in the cinema, and grumpy spectators cursed in low voices; people with fragile sensibilities cried in low voices, and the audience was brought into the plot of the movie, and the flames of anger ignited in their hearts.
Immediately, Lin Chengxun poured a handful of oil on the flame.
The murmuring song amplified from far to near, and slowly, its familiar melody was heard by the audience. At this moment, the audience felt their souls trembling.
This is actually a children's song, a children's song with a changed tune and no lyrics.
In these humiliations and abuses of children, they were acquitted by the law; in the children's eyes wide open in despair; in such a scene, the appearance of such a children's song instantly ignited the anger of all the audience present, and the adrenal glands
The hormones exploded instantly, their scalps became numb, and they could even hear their own heartbeats clearly in their ears.
"Bang bang bang!"
The sound of fists hitting the armrests even surpassed the resentful children's songs in the movie.
But the movie doesn't change anything because of their outrage.
The melting pot is still going on, and the situation has taken a turn for the worse for Jiang Renhao. His mother's incomprehension, his mentor's persuasion, Li Jiangshuo's arrogance, and the children's cries are all like sharp awls, gradually tightening the space for his heart to beat, making him
He had trouble breathing.
To make matters worse, the parents of the injured students suddenly decided to withdraw the lawsuit.
Jiang Renhao felt angry but could not vent it; he wanted to cry but there were no tears left.
Finally, Quan Minxiu, a boy who always had scars all over his body but refused to tell the reason, and who was always hostile to Jiang Renhao's kindness, dragged the beastly teacher who was violent to him to death under the railroad tracks.
It was a long shot, pushing the camera far away, and the decaying grass that appeared at the beginning of the movie flashed past, and then the train roared and ran over the bodies of the two people.
"That easter egg is Quan Minxiu's younger brother?"
Song Kanghao's expression was very complicated. He never expected that this movie, even the Easter eggs, would make people tremble and despair.
It turns out that the younger brother of Quan Minxiu whom others said died at the beginning of the movie.
It was like an inescapable fateful reincarnation. The two victim brothers and the two brothers' perpetrators both died at the same location on the same railway track.
Time continues to flow, and the sad rhythm of the movie deepens again in the twitching and crying scene of Lin Chengxun (the movie character), which is still so despairing.
In this way, the time of the movie passes in despair and depression. Finally, a group of artificial collage space and time montage shots bring the movie "The Crucible" to the end.
Jiang Renhao walks in the crowded crowd, and the people walking back and forth around him are like soulless corpses. In the close-up shot, his eyes seem to contain a fog, full of confusion, as if this "The Melting Pot" is going to be in this depression.
Towards the end.
But gradually, his eyes became bright and firm, and the narration sounded at the right time.
"The world can definitely change, it just needs more power. When these forces come together, we listen to each other's voices, remember each other's names, hold each other's hands, warm each other, and remember each other."
The screen zoomed up, and the bright and determined eyes turned into the blue sky. Under the sky, there was a withered green grass growing beside the railway. At this time, a person walked over. His face could not be seen clearly, but
The body shape and clothes are all very similar to Jiang Inho's.
It is very similar to the scene at the beginning, but the difference is that the figure stopped, bent down to take out the withered green grass from the soil, and moved it to the green field aside with care. After carefully burying the green grass, the figure gradually
Go away.
The camera follows the figure. The figure's pace is very strong and full of vitality. Finally, it stops in front of a door. Like the person, the door is half-covered with only the word "school" exposed.
A figure that looked very much like Jiang Renhao walked into the school. After a while, a voice came out, "Classmates, class is here." The voice was somewhat familiar, but it was not entirely Jiang Renhao's voice.
This is hope. It is a vague expectation that Lin Chengxun forcibly inserted regardless of the logic of the movie plot.
As Lim Sung-hoon and Bong Joon-ho said, what the movie reflects on reality should be hope.
The camera zoomed in and out, depicting the outline of the entire school, and a line of words appeared on the screen: This film is based on a real case of the rape incident at the deaf-mute school in x state, and they are still waiting for a result, waiting for a
The dawn of hope.
At this time, "The Crucible" has completely come to an end, the screen goes black, and the lights in the cinema come on.