Blooming America

Chapter 5 Shocking Reflection

As time enters May, Watson, the young IBm, already feels a lot of pressure at this time.

Because of the relationship with the Taiwan factory, Catherine did not hesitate to reduce x production to support the production of Microsoft-type computers.

With the influx of a large number of Microsoft-type computers into the market, Jr. Watson felt that his IBm plan to enter the microcomputer market did not seem feasible anymore.

Watson Jr. originally planned to completely defeat Catherine's aRk Group, but he was helpless because his company is under investigation by the US Department of Justice.

If you do too much, you will face various antitrust investigations.

At that time, I had a headache.

Can't care about this and lose the other.

Moreover, Watson Jr. felt helpless when facing the opponent's low-price strategy.

In Watson's opinion, even if the other party's price is increased tenfold, it will not have much impact on their sales.

But the opponent's low-price strategy hit IBm instead.

IBm needs to study the computer architecture from scratch, and they must use a new architecture to enter the microcomputer market.

Because the other party's system is already 8-bit, the next-generation computer of IBm must target a 6-bit computer in order to defeat the other party.

—If the other party has already opened a 6-bit machine when IBm has opened an 8-bit machine, then the IBm's money will be lost.

So you must directly open the 6-bit machine.

However, their company is not like Catherine's company, starting from the 4-bit machine, step by step recovery costs, but must be in place in one step, which means that the research cost is much higher than Inte1.

After all, the other party came all the way and drove two generations of computers and various game consoles. The previous research costs were almost recovered. Even if the other party opens a 6-bit machine, it can be done based on an 8-bit machine, and the cost is saved. What Watson didn’t know was that Catherine was able to point the way for the company, which also saved the company a lot of costs. Take a lot of detours.

Coupled with the counterparty's low-price strategy, resulting in low profits, unless the counterparty is completely squeezed out of the market, the market can do what it says.

—You must know that IBm has achieved a profit that is twice the market value for a while. This is entirely because the pricing power is in their hands.

However, there is a profit that can only reach% on the microcomputer, and Watson really looks down on it.

His original plan was to squeeze out aRk, and then control the pricing power by himself so as to make money in the microcomputer market.

But now... this plan is clearly not feasible.

Little Watson now has a terrible headache.

"Maybe…"

Little Watson suddenly thought of a trick-misfortune.

Maybe...it can allow Japanese shopping malls to enter the microcomputer market first, and when the two sides fight you to death, IBm can take advantage of this opportunity?

The Japanese are a good thug, this trick seems to be very effective?

But soon, Watson Jr. rejected this view.

Japanese entry into this market will only make prices lower, not higher.

-The Japanese have national anti-tax policies, and they can reduce prices unscrupulously.

correct…

Little Watson's eyes suddenly lit up.

aRk has flourished in the U.S. and is also involved in the European market, but... they have not entered the Japanese market.

Japan has now gradually begun to become one of the most important emerging economies in the world, and it has always been the second largest economy in the world until the rise of the country.

Watson Jr. has a very strong business vision.

He immediately targeted the Japanese market.

IBm is not aRk, they have strong capabilities, even if they enter the Japanese market, it is possible.

—In fact, IBm did this in history, and they successfully entered the Japanese market and forced Japan’s 98 to be terminated by the IBm machine.

However, Watson is still very cautious. For specific matters, he must first discuss with a think tank, and also need to convene a board of directors... And to be honest, Watson is not very confident.

…

Just as Watson Jr. was considering whether he should enter the Japanese market, on the other hand, Catherine's film was about to be released.

"Gray Zone" is the first part of Catherine's camp trilogy

Old Pete, also rarely left home, left the dazzling TV and BSP; Old Pete is now worried about the "Zombie Survival Handbook", he is very strange, what exactly does DreamWorks want to do?

"Oh, Pete, I think about the time we went from Europe to America..."

His wife was sitting beside him.

"Everything is over."

Old Pete patted his wife's hand.

They are also Jews, and came to the United States after nine deaths during World War II.

In addition to them, there are many young people who come here. They are all couples. They are smiling, holding popcorn, and doing shameful and ambiguous actions.

Because there is a **** the promotional poster, they probably thought that the film should be about a love story, so they came.

Old Pete and his wife found their seats and sat down in the cinema. At this time, the lights dimmed.

The film begins.

There was silence for half a minute at first.

Then, a hoarse voice suddenly appeared.

"We personally pushed the corpses of our compatriots into the crematorium

Then the next one

Another one

Those ashes are like snow that never stops

It **** into your lungs

Penetrates into your skin

Into your blood vessels

Penetrate your bones

I'm inseparable from you anymore..."

Then, the gloomy picture began to light up.

The depressive atmosphere has existed from the beginning.

It's suffocating.

At the beginning of the film, what appeared on the screen was an incinerator, where dead bodies were burned.

Several people coughed and sent the dead body into the incinerator while wiping their faces.

Then the picture turned, and it came to the gas chamber again—without a doubt, this is the origin of these dead bodies.

Immediately afterwards, several people discovered the girl who was still alive and took her to the only doctor.

The doctor began to fight the Nazis and saved the girl's life.

At this time, the original cool color gradually warmed.

The Jews in the camp began to organize underground organizations, preparing to escape here, and the doctors also participated.

Everything seemed to be moving in a good direction, and at this time, the picture began to become gorgeous.

At night, the people in the camp finally started an "uprising". At this time, the tone of Catherine's picture began to turn cold again.

-Their escape plan failed, and everyone was arrested.

Then, they were taken to the playground, lying on the ground, and they were shot to death one by one.

The picture turned, and the little girl from the beginning appeared on the picture again.

No one spoke, and the girl was taken to the front of the gate.

At this time, the tone became warmer again.

The girl looked around, then ran outside.

At this time, the Nazi officer suddenly took out his gun.

The next moment, the camera began to shake—at this time, the camera had switched to the little girl's field of vision.

"Boom"

With a shot, the camera fell to the ground...

Then, the screen turned gray.

However, the film is not over yet at this time.

The picture turned, and it was night again.

Several people came to the crematorium with the girl's body.

At this time, it seemed that there was only the sound of the air flowing, and the voices of those people had already disappeared.

The screen always shows how these people work, just like the beginning of the film.

At this time, the girl's voice suddenly sounded.

"After the uprising, the stove remained. I was moved in with them.

I caught fire soon

A part of me rose up with thick smoke and mixed with other people’s smoke

Then the bones were left, fell into the ashes, was swept up and sent to the river

At last

Part of our ashes

Floating in the air, surrounding a new group of people coming to work

We stay on their shoes and faces

Stay in their lungs

They gradually got used to us

They don’t cough anymore, don’t brush us away

Here they just move

Breathe and move

Like everyone else, still alive here

Work, that's it

continue…"

Then, the picture became darker and darker in this narrative, and finally, it became completely dark.

The picture is a piece of darkness.

In the cinema, there was also a dead silence.

At the beginning of the "uprising", almost everyone thought that the ending would be beautiful.

However, Catherine did not hesitate to smash people's hopes, and then stepped on her feet.

The film is uncharacteristically devoid of any music, and at the end of the film, it is not a long list of thanks, but a list of those who died in the camp during World War II that Catherine tried so hard to find.

But at this time, the music began to sound, but it was a funeral music.

Some people want to cry, but they just can't cry.

The depressed atmosphere seems to make people lose their breath and forget that they are still alive.

The extremely depressing atmosphere is almost suffocating, but it seems to be overwhelming.

"Oh, Pete..."

His wife hugged him tightly.

"Well, UU reading www.uukanshu.com, let's go back."

Pete patted the other person on the back...

The film ended, and then the cleaners came in to clean up. They found a lot of popcorn that had hardly been touched...

"There is nothing more shocking than this. Nothing can make us reflect on the sorrow caused by war."

-"New York Times"

"This is a tragedy. According to Hollywood tradition, such films are often unpopular. Who would like a tragedy? But Miss Catherine Edson told us that Hollywood needs more than just go To sensationalize, but it needs a kind of sublimation."

-"Los Angeles Times"

I have to say that this "Gray Zone" achieved Catherine's unexpected success, and even received critical reviews. It stands to reason that Catherine should be very happy at this time, but this is not the case because of a major event. She didn’t even have the heart to care about these...