Senior Superstar

At ten o'clock in the morning, in the No. 9 exhibition hall of the film and television city of the business center, the competition cinema screening of "The Undertaker" officially started.

Compared with the previous "Ling", the screening site of "The Undertaker" is obviously larger.

Although Hall 9 is not the largest screening hall in the film and television city, it is large enough to accommodate 500 people, and it is already ranked among the top three in the entire screening session.

Seeing that the auditorium was full of seats, Li Shixin's mood suddenly improved a lot.

But beside him, Xu Xiao and others who had been comforting Li Shixin for the past two days seemed a little nervous at this moment.

"Mr. Xu, do you think today's match will be successful?"

Seeing Li Shixin silently observing the audience, a team member from the operation and distribution center lowered his voice and asked in front of the lit screen.

In fact, as the team operating the Berlin Film Festival, Xu Xiao and others are no less anxious than Li Shixin.

In the past few years, Huaqi has been in a relatively sluggish state due to some confusion in the top management.

The film and television works invested and produced by the company, especially the film works, have not released a blockbuster for three years. They didn't have good box office results in the domestic market, let alone participated in foreign film festivals.

Because of Li Shixin's joining, it can be said that Huaqi made a beautiful turnaround in the last year. So this time to participate in the Berlin Film Festival, the company's executives have given high expectations.

"Ling" had a bad start. Although everyone didn't say anything, the pressure in their hearts said it was impossible.

Facing the discussion of the team members, Xu Xiao clicked his tongue;

"Quiet! We've done all the kung fu, success or failure is not something we can control now. Take it easy, be normal, be normal."

"But Mr. Xu, you pinched my thigh."

"Ah, oh. Sorry, sorry."

Hearing the mutterings of Xu Xiao and others beside him, Li Shixin smiled slightly.

That is, at this time, the title of the movie officially finished playing.

The plot of "The Undertaker" was displayed in front of all audiences.

"Is anyone at home? Is Lin Damu at home? I'm from the community, and the civil affairs comrades are here to find you!""

auditorium.

As the story of the mortician unfolded, some viewers who were obviously different from ordinary tourists silently opened their laptops and notebooks.

On the best viewing seat in the fourth row, a blond man in his fifties stroked his black-rimmed glasses.

Looking at the slightly gloomy picture and the dull transition on the screen, he frowned secretly.

The ballpoint pen held in his left hand drew a line of big characters on the notebook, expressing his first impression of the movie.

[The photography technology is immature, the color tone of the picture is mysterious, the filter seems to come from the underworld, it looks like a MV work shot by a funeral home]

Obviously, Zhu Hao's directing skills and the skills of the Jing'an Cemetery photography team cannot catch the eyes of critical film critics.

It was under such a bad first impression that the plot of "The Undertaker" slowly unfolded

In fact, the plot progress of "The Undertaker" is relatively slow, and there are very few lines and dialogues in the whole film, and more is to use the emotional interaction of the characters to advance the plot.

This way of expression is actually not friendly.

But with the progress of the plot, especially in the second half of the first scene "the old house welcomes the thorn rose", Lao Lin replaced the kitchen knife hidden in Xiao Yuan's school bag with a bear. As a result, Xiao Yuan was bullied by his classmates at school, lost his temper with Lao Lin after returning home, and was taken to the funeral home. And in the second act "Rotten mud can also grow flowers", Lao Lin buried the dead in front of Xiao Yuan for the first time. Many audiences present, including film critics, cheered up!

They have seen more or less movies about death.

But like "The Undertaker", this is the first time for them to directly spread the corpse in front of the audience, allowing the audience to follow the perspective of Lao Lin or Xiao Yuan's parties to face the cold death directly!

For audiences who can only accept dialogue information through subtitles, there are few lines, and most of the plot depends on the language of the camera and the way the characters express their emotions, which is far more than the large number of lines in "Ling", and many lines even Movies that cannot be conveyed intuitively through translation are much more friendly!

When the film entered the end of the second act, that is, when Lao Lin was dealing with the body of the old woman who had died at home for a week and was oozing, there were no previous whispers and whispers in the entire auditorium. You can hear the quiet needle drop!

It is still the best viewing seat in the fourth row, watching the long shot of Lao Lin wiping the exudate from the old man’s corpse and grooming the corpse in a delicate and gentle way, and the left hand holding the ballpoint pen , trembling slightly.

【God! They actually used real corpses! But what's even crazier than this is that I actually saw a sense of beauty in the process! 】

[Swear to God, this is the most unique visual expression I have seen in the past five years! 】

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Received additional applause points of [Shock], [Move], and [Yearning], 39812 points!

In the middle of the first row.

Li Shixin raised his lips when he listened to the reminders that the applause was credited to his account.

He let out a long breath.

Sure enough, this is the right way to open the film festival!

In the shock of the audience, the one and a half hour movie seemed to fly by so fast.

Following the accidental death of the bathhouse proprietress in the third act "Don't cry, this is not the real end", Lao Lin, Xiao Yuan and others saw off the scene in person, sobbing and sobbing sounded in the screening hall.

When Lao Lin buried his daughter himself in the fourth act "The beginning and the end are beautiful, no matter how bad the process is", Xiao Yuan learned that her mother's last wish was to make up for her going to the zoo. In the fifth act "The way to respect death is to live well", the biggest foreshadowing of the whole film is shaken. The terminally ill Lao Lin teaches Xiao Yuan the technique of encoffining, and the high-energy plots of Xiao Yuan sending him away in the end are presented to the audience one after another. When she was in front of her, the sound of sobbing and sobbing in the auditorium had become one piece!

It wasn't until the last scene of the movie was finished, Xiao Yuan put the teddy bear in the arms of the dead Lao Lin, and the subtitle "The End" appeared on the screen, that all the audience finally let go of their emotions.

"Wow!"

As the lights came on at the end, the audience, who had been suppressed for more than an hour, finally began to cry loudly.

Then, applause like a tide broke out.

The fourth row is the best viewing position.

It wasn't until his palms felt swollen that Mayer Depp, the special film critic of the world's most prestigious film magazine "Variety", excitedly picked up the ballpoint pen and quickly recorded it in his notebook.

[I swear, "The Undertaker" is the only film I saw at this damn Berlin Film Festival, blinded by political correctness, that examines the theme from the perspective of a "human"!]

[This film is obviously childish and rough in production techniques, and the use of film language is like an experimental work of an art academy, but it is like a bottle of fine wine that has not been sobered, and it still makes people so fascinated! 】

【damn it! The dialogues in this film are outrageous, but every line is like a jewel in the crown that can reach the soul!]

[If I were the chairman of the jury, then what I should do now is to stop this competition segment occupied by bad movies. Put that damn Golden Bear Award, which never seems to be awarded to really good movies, into the hands of this screenwriter, director and actor who made the entire movie theater audience cry!]

【Damn it, this is such a surprising and unforgettable work!】

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Received an extra [appreciation] [praise] applause value, 67193 points!

Hearing another soft beep from the system, Li Shixin patted his lapel.

Standing up from the first row, he faced the frenziedly applauding audience and bowed slightly.

Beside him, seeing this scene, Xu Xiao and a group of team members in the operation and distribution center were already stunned.

"Your mother."

Chucking, Xu Xiao sighed.

"Like a fucking dream."