At almost six o'clock, the sun jumped out of the place where the sea and the sky met, dyeing the clouds red, and casting a golden coat over the small seaside town of Cannes. The golden sunshine seems to tell the people in the city to get up quickly, there are a lot of good movies today!

Xu Wangqiu put on his clothes and went to the balcony to breathe in the fresh air for a while, and then went outside for a while. After returning to the room, he took a shower, changed into clean clothes, and chatted with Hu Jian and them in the living room. When it was almost eight o'clock, Xu Wangqiu came out of the room and went to Xia Meng's apartment. Today they are going to the Palais des Cinemas to take pictures, and they will also be interviewed by many important media outlets. The whole interview will last for a day, and it will be a long battle.

Coming out of the apartment and passing by the newsstand, Xu Wangqiu wanted to know what the French media said about "Cold", so he bought a copy of all the newspapers published today.

Coming to Xia Meng's apartment, Xu Wangqiu knocked on the door and entered the living room. Xia Meng and the others had already changed their clothes, dressed beautifully, sat on the sofa, and waited for Xu Wangqiu and them to go to the movie palace together.

Xia Meng saw Xu Wangqiu and them come in, and picked up a stack of newspapers on the table: "Xiaola, we are all waiting for you, we can't read French, waiting for you to help us translate." ”

Xu Wangqiu smiled and raised the newspaper in his hand: "I knew you bought the newspaper, I wouldn't have bought it!" He handed the newspaper in his hand to Laqikang: "Give us a thought, and see what the media says about our movie." ”

Labaokang took the newspaper, sat down on the sofa, and translated it to Xu Wangqiu seriously: "I first read the commentary of Le Figaro, the title of Le Figaro is 'Broken Dream of Xiangjiang', which reads: The movie "Cold" has a song "Under the Lion Rock" throughout, according to Xu Wangqiu, this music is a symbol of the spirit of Xiangjiang. In 1973, Heung Kong TV began to broadcast a unit drama "Under the Lion Rock". The play depicts the collective appearance of the times when the general public worked hard for life, and records the evolution process of the Xiangjiang society from the 70s to the 80s with vivid and vivid stories. The theme song of the TV series of the same name, "Under the Lion Rock", sings the harmony, optimism, unity and fearlessness of the citizens who meet under the Lion Rock to build their own homes together, as well as unity and struggle in adversity, help each other and tolerate each other, which has aroused the resonance of all Xiangjiang people, so it has become popular in Xiangjiang. The people of Xiangjiang believe that as long as they work hard, there will be a tomorrow, and this spirit is also known as the Lion Rock Spirit.

In the movie "Cold", the protagonist Zheng Yi is undoubtedly the representative of the spirit of Lion Rock. Zheng Yi was originally in a wealthy family, his father and mother were medicinal herb merchants, and he had a lovely younger sister. But when he was eight years old, he suffered a tragedy, his father, mother and sister all died, and he was the only one who survived, but since then he has been afraid of cold. The misfortunes of his childhood did not distort his view of the world, and he always believed in justice and was full of hope for the future. As an adult, he did change his life through unremitting efforts, he became a police officer, had a family, had a beautiful wife, and had a good relationship with neighbors and colleagues. If this is placed in the United States, it is a realized American dream, and this story takes place in Xiangjiang, which can be seen as the realized Xiangjiang dream.

The first third of the movie is warm and full of sunshine, making people think that this is a story about the dream of Xiangjiang. It's just that as the story progresses, the financial crisis begins to break out, the Xiangjiang property market collapses, a large number of Xiangjiang families go bankrupt, and suicides continue to occur. Zheng Yi's family also gradually went bankrupt and became negative equity. Zheng Yi's neighbor's family committed suicide, his friend was killed by rioters, and his wife also committed suicide, and the Xiangjiang dream was completely shattered. At this time, Zheng Yi discovered that the murderer of his father, mother and sister had become the richest man in Xiangjiang and was secretly manipulating everything. So, he picked up a gun and went from a law enforcement license to a murderer.

"Cold" is an extremely desperate, extremely depressing story, with no hope in sight. In this story, Zheng Yi's family did nothing wrong, but the tragedy still fell on their heads, and also on the heads of the Xiangjiang family, which is very similar to them. If they have to say wrong, then their biggest mistake is to live at the bottom. Ordinary people like Zheng Yi and them, in the eyes of the upper echelons, are nothing more than a piece of grass planted by them, which can be harvested by economic means every ten years. Zheng Yi's family and those who committed suicide in bankruptcy were all harvested by the upper echelons through economic means.

From this point of view, the so-called Xiangjiang Dream and the so-called Lion Rock Spirit are just a bowl of chicken soup instilled in the upper class to the bottom, giving hope to the people at the bottom, making them think that through hard work, they can have a brilliant future, and the purpose is just to harvest these people in the future......"

Unlike Le Figaro, Le Monde's article focuses on analyzing the psychology of the characters: "People live in society, and if they have hope and love to support them, they will not go to extremes and will not be marginalized by society. The three pillars that support Zheng Yi's heart are friendship, family affection, and justice. It is precisely because he always believes in all this in his heart that although Zheng Yi suffered misfortune in his childhood, he did not fall, worked hard to live upward, and was known as a policeman who fought crime. "Cold" runs through the main line of the whole film, in fact, it is describing how Zheng Yi's inner beliefs are shaken and how the three pillars of his heart are destroyed. When Zheng Yi's faith was completely destroyed and his heart was swallowed up by darkness, he became a madman who killed even children. ”

La Paecon translated five French newspaper commentaries in a row, and without exception, they were overwhelmingly positive.

Xia Meng and they are very excited, since all the newspapers say yes, it is safe to say that "Cold" has conquered the Cannes Film Festival and the European media. This time in Cannes, not only can I sell the film rights smoothly, but I can also get the grand prize if I can't.

Xu Wangqiu is not so optimistic, France is an old revolutionary area, and it is certainly very normal to give "Cold" a film that criticizes capitalism and profoundly exposes the cruel exploitation of capitalists, but it is not necessarily the case in Britain and the United States.

Things are indeed as Xu Wangqiu expected, the media on the European continent are mainly positive, while the British and American media are mainly negative.

Italy's "News" gave an in-depth interpretation of the image of cold in the movie: "The movie is called "Cold", and this cold has a double meaning. The first is physiological coldness. After Zheng Yi suffered a tragedy, he had a quirk of being afraid of the cold, the technique is summer, he always wears thick clothes, and when he sleeps at night, he sleeps separately from his wife, because he has to cover the quilt. The second is psychological coldness, despair of society and reality. At the end of the movie, Zheng Yi finally understands the tragedy of all this, and it is the cruel suppression of the upper class to the lower class, and the upper class does not treat the lower class as a human being at all, but sees it as a planted grass, which will be harvested every ten years. It is cannibalistic capitalist capital that has created one human tragedy after another, and this is a problem of the system. Zheng Yi was able to kill Huang Shilang, but he could not fight against the capitalist system. Therefore, after he killed Huang Shilang, instead of being liberated, he became even more desperate. At the end of the movie, Zheng Yi said to the police, I'm cold. In fact, it was the reaction of despair in his heart. ”

The German newspaper "Süddeutsche Zeitung" conducted an in-depth analysis of the color of the film: "Xu Wangqiu's first three works shocked the world with a strong personal style and a unique audio-visual language. Compared with the previous three works, "Cold" is more stylized in color and composition. Red is the most symbolic color of the film, and the ubiquitous red scenery, costumes and lights in the picture have a suffocating sense of oppression, showing the crime, blood and violence of the city all the time; this highly alarming, post-apocalyptic nightmarish horror is the portrayal of the era of war, fraud, and tyranny turmoil. ”

The British media criticized "Cold" mainly because Xu Wangqiu said in the film that Britain was behind the scenes, and Britain was brutally exploiting and oppressing the people of Xiangjiang, while the American media believed that "Cold" was belittling capitalism and was suspected of advocating communism.

The British "Times" slammed: "The film devotes a lot of space to the exploitation of the middle class by the big capitalists, looting the wealth of the middle class through the economic crisis, turning them into abject poverty, and causing a large number of bankrupts to commit suicide." At the end of the movie, the desperate Zheng Yi killed, the family of Huang Shilang, a large real estate developer. The director is actually saying that there is something wrong with the capitalist system, and in order to be saved, there must be a revolution, and capitalism must be overthrown. This is a typical socialist propaganda film, the whole movie is a mixture of fiction and reality, the narrative clues are unclear, and the rhythm is flat, showing the ideological confusion of the choreographer and director, as well as the serious lack of control. The film is not about reconciliation but violence, not tolerance but hatred. Such a film is both banal and offensive. ”

The Washington Post unceremoniously criticized: "It is common for a director to have a clear political stance, and it is common for a film to have positive and negative evaluations of certain historical events and social mechanisms." Highly politicized films such as Godard's ultra-radical "The Chinese Girl" or even "East Wind" deconstruct the illusion of identity on the screen and discuss the possibility of political struggle in a Brechtian distancing way of sound and image. Bertolucci's "1900" involves the historical process of major social and political systems such as communism, Fasianism, and capitalism, but the film's foothold is the choice of people in these ideological-historical processes, and the destination is people. If the ultimate goal of a movie is only to criticize or eulogize a certain ideology, a certain system, a certain social institution, or a certain type of person, no matter how correct this criticism or accura is, it is still a propaganda film. To put it another way, although Xu Wangqiu's position is very fierce left-wing criticism, the way he expresses it is the most conservative propaganda film aesthetic. ”

The New York Times gave "Cold" a zero score without mercy: "Xu Wangqiu is a director with a strong ideology, and his new work "Cold" is a film with obvious propaganda intentions. The content of "Cold" is very simple, the big capitalists in Xiangjiang took advantage of the economic crisis to loot the wealth of the middle and bottom levels, and Zheng Yi, a good man with justice in his heart, was forced into a corner, and finally went on a killing spree. Zheng Yi killed Huang Shilang's family in Xiangjiang Land, but he was not redeemed, and he was still desperate in his heart. At the end of the movie, he shuddered and said, I'm cold. It's because he feels that the world is cold and indifferent.

Xu Wangqiu did not tell us how the bottom could avoid being brutally exploited, and how Zheng Yi could be rescued. Thinking of Xu Wangqiu's identity, a Communist Party member from a socialist country, the answer is about to come out, only revolution, only communism can change the world and liberate all the poor.

If it had been 20 years ago, a movie like "Cold" would have been inflammatory and would have been sought after by young people. But today, when capitalism is booming and socialism is in trouble, "Cold", a film that belittles capitalism and sings praises for socialism, can only become a laughing stock. ”