Fang Bei's new film is tentatively titled "The Shadow of Light".

It is a two-protagonist movie.

The story is about a psychopathic homicidal maniac, who falls in love with a police officer, and kills each other.

At the beginning of the movie, the two protagonists went to a video store together when they were young.

The equipment here has a sweet treble, a mid-pitch accuracy, a deep bass, in a word, it is transparent.

So the two children usually like to come here to listen to CDs.

It was supposed to go on like this.

But one day, the owner of this video store died.

The yellow-haired one of the two children took away a painting, a "Mona Lisa Smile".

Another dark-haired kid took a DVD player.

Since then, the two have not seen each other again.

Until...... Twenty years later.

Kira is a thirty-three-year-old ordinary video store owner.

Single.

No smoking, no alcohol taste, no bad habits.

When I was in school, my grades were always ranked fourth, because only the top three would be focused on by the teachers.

After graduating, he found a general job, working 9 to 8 every day, not attending any co-worker gatherings, and never thinking about promotion.

But his work was always done, but it wasn't perfect.

Therefore, the boss did not scold him, but he did not have any idea of promoting him.

So he quit his job and went back to his hometown town to open a video store.

He went to bed at eleven o'clock at night and slept eight hours a day.

Before going to bed, he would drink a glass of warm milk, then do twenty minutes of soft exercises, go to bed, and immediately fall asleep, and sleep until dawn.

He will never leave fatigue and stress until the next day.

Even the doctors said he was normal.

But he has a secret that no one knows......

He's a serial killer who has killed a lot of people.

He feels alive when he kills, and even though he knows it's wrong and will cause trouble, he still chooses to do it.

There was a vague expectation in his heart, but he couldn't tell what that expectation was.

............

Chen Qing is a 31-year-old ordinary police officer.

Also single.

He smokes cigarettes and asks for a pack and a half a day.

He drank, and was basically drunk all the time.

When he was in school, he was at the top of his grades, basically either first or second.

After graduating, he was admitted to the system and became a police officer.

Commute to and from work normally every day, eat and drink with colleagues after work, and live like a normal person.

The organization also said that he would be promoted next year.

I went to the hospital for a physical examination, and his health was not very good.

Mild fatty liver, often staying up late, smoking and drinking constantly, the doctor also told him to rest more.

He gags past him.

In fact, under his cheerful and easy-going appearance, there is an unknown secret.

The reason why he became a policeman was to catch the murderer with his own hands and avenge his parents, brothers and sisters.

Ten years ago, when he was studying in a foreign university, he suddenly received bad news.

His home was robbed, and his parents, brother and sister died tragically at the hands of the murderer.

As a result of the investigation, it was a burglary homicide.

The killer was also apprehended within 48 hours.

But only he knows that the murderer will not be that person.

Because along with the money in his house, there were two DVD players.

Among the murderer's confession and the stolen goods found, there was only one DVD player.

He knew who the killer was.

............

Three months later, he applied to be transferred back to the town where his hometown was located.

Faced with the regret of his boss and the incomprehension of his colleagues, he just said that he was born lazy and the pressure of life in the big city was too much, and he would rather choose to return to his hometown to shine.

It happened that there was a serial murder in his hometown, so his boss sent him back.

On the afternoon of his return to town, he was sent to a nostalgic video store.

There was also a "Mona Lisa's Smile" hanging on the wall of the video store.

There he met a man.

The man he had erased from his memory, but had emerged like a ghost.

Kira.

That afternoon, the sun was shining and the years were quiet.

In the video store, the two sit on chairs and enjoy old music from the past together.

"This audio is a standard Hong Kong product, more than 10,000. Coupled with more than 1,000 local lines, it is comparable to more than 100,000 European goods. The treble is sweet, the midrange is accurate, the bass is deep, in a word, it is transparent. It's so three-dimensional, it's like singing in front of you. It's the same as the original video store. ”

"I don't like to listen to music, I prefer to watch movies. Chen Qing smiled and avoided answering: "How long have you been back?"

"It's been more than 10 years, and I've been back since I graduated from college. What have you been doing all these years?"

"Be a police officer. ”

"Did you come back because you were fired?"

"No, to catch a prisoner. Have you heard of the recent serial murders in town? ”

"I've heard that the murderer is said to be a pervert who specializes in killing flower girls. But he didn't violate them, he just cut off their hands and took them away, what a pervert. ”

"I think so too. ”

After this first meeting, Chen Qing confirmed his guess that Kira was the murderer.

Not only this serial murder case, but also the bloody case of his family of four.

The murderers are all Kira.

And he's still provoking himself.

The DVD player that I lost at home is in this video store.

and the "Mona Lisa's Smile" that I haven't seen before.

But he has no evidence.

So he set his sights on Kira and wanted to get evidence that he was the murderer.

............

But the murderer is still committing crimes, Chen Qing still hasn't found evidence, and even he has received a lot of anonymous couriers, which are arms.

He finally couldn't hold back and grabbed Kira to the police station.

But on the day of the incident, Kira had an alibi.

Chen Qing was helpless, looking at Kira's smiling and released figure, he vowed to catch the evidence that he was the murderer.

Finally, after painstaking verification, he thought of something.

He returned to the old video store that had been burned to the ground.

Inside the video store, he found the hidden arms.

Not only that, but the technical department also recovered a shoe print and a discarded shoe.

Chen Qingru got the treasure, and he applied to the bureau to ask Kira to wear those shoes to test his footprints.

If the location and angle of the force are the same, then the evidence that Kira is the murderer has been found.

But that's when the drama came.

Kira had a car accident.

Looking at the bloody corpse, Chen Qing was silent.

He didn't believe it was Kira's body.

DNA testing needs to be done in the province, and it takes a month for the results to come out.

But Chen Qing couldn't wait that long.

Three days later, it was the death day of his family.

So he continued to search for the suspect.

After going through a lot of hardships and excluding everyone, he locked up one person.

The driver who killed Kira by driving his car spontaneously combusted and suffered extensive burns all over his body, and is now being treated in the hospital.

Chen Qing rushed to the hospital, only to find that the driver was missing.

Chen Qing knew where he would be.

............

In the video store, Chen Qing saw the man wrapped in bandages.

The two had a tense and exciting battle, and the bandage man was defeated.

"Kira, it's you. ”

Chen Qing referred to the identity of the bandage man in front of him.

It also refers to the murderer of serial murders.

and the murderers of their own parents, brothers and sisters.

"You don't have proof. ”

The bandage man replied.

"I'm Kira, thirty-three years old, living in a residential area on the east side of the town, unmarried. I opened a video store that opened at 9 a.m. and closed at 8 p.m. every day. I don't smoke, I just drink a little bit. I slept at 11 o'clock every night and slept eight hours a day. Before going to bed, I must drink a glass of warm milk, then do twenty minutes of soft exercises, go to bed, and immediately fall asleep. Sleep until dawn and never leave fatigue and stress for the next day. The doctor also said I was normal.

How can I be a murderer like this. ”

"Evil can never triumph over justice. ”

"So I'm not a murderer. For the past twenty years, I have been like your shadow. Actually, you are the one who should live in the shadows. ”

It turned out that the fire in the old video store was man-made.

Everyone thought that Kira did it, because Chen Qing insisted that it was him, but because there was no evidence, he was released.

But because of this, his family moved out of the town, and his parents abandoned him because of the incident.

But Kira knows best that the person who set the fire and killed the boss at the beginning was Chen Qing!

Chen Qingcai is an anti-social psychopath!

"But in the town's serial murders, you're the murderer. You are also the murderer of my parents and sister. By the time the burglary arrived at the scene, they had already been killed. Chen Qing's expression was calm, "Turn yourself in, it's not too late." Why don't you give yourself a chance to mend your ways?"

"Surrender?" Kira tilted his head slightly, "I just want you to live in the shadows with me, why can you live in the light while I can only survive in the shadows?" ”

"It was too late. Killing pays for life, this is an unchanging truth since ancient times. It's only to blame you and me for being different from everyone else, you and I are special. ”

Kira looked up: "Once upon a time, there was a mental hospital built on a cliff with two madmen in it. One night, they felt tired of living in it, they felt that they were not animals living in this cage, they were human beings, and they should live in a world outside this cage.

So they decided to escape from the cage.

One night, the two of them came to the door of the cage, and through the door, they were presented with the human world lit up in the moonlight.

But if you want to get there, you have to jump over the deep valley in the middle of the cliff.

One of them jumped over easily, and he turned around and invited the second to jump along.

The second man did not dare to jump because he was afraid of falling and dying.

So, the first man came up with a solution, and he said, 'I'll shine a bridge in the middle with a flashlight, and you can walk over the bridge by stepping on it.'"

But the second man refused, saying......

'Were you crazy, you're going to turn off your flashlight when I'm halfway there?'

Isn't it funny?"

"I'm sorry, I'm laughing too high. Chen Qing lit a cigarette and took a light puff, "I'm different from you." ”

"You ......"

Kira's eyes widened.

Then he laughed and burst into tears.

"Sure enough, you're not like me. ”

"But soon, you'll be just like me. ”

The laughter came to an abrupt end.

............

The truth of the matter is that the incident at the video store was done by the two of them.

It was indeed Kira who killed Chen Qing's parents, brothers and sisters ten years ago.

But why is Chen Qing a different person from Kira?

Because Kira also found out in the end.

This Chen Qing is not Chen Qing.

He was Chen Qing, who should have been killed ten years ago.

Chen Qing is the elder brother, the same age as Kira and the one who committed that case together.

He knew he had a psychological problem, and he tried it.

But he failed.

And how can the sins that have been committed be washed away?

So on that day ten years ago, when Chen Qing returned home and found his parents and sisters lying in a pool of blood, and Kira, who had not seen him for ten years, was standing there, he had an idea.

He impersonated his younger brother Chen Qing and was then killed by Kira.

But he also left a clue for his younger brother.

Because he knew that Kira would not leave a flaw.

Because both are people with special abilities.

This is also what makes them different – they don't see themselves as the same as the average person.

Chen Qing relied on his ability to engrave the evidence he saw at the scene of the crime on a disc and hide it before he died.

Kira knew what he was capable of, so he took the DVD player with him after killing someone.

But he didn't expect Chen Qing to have another DVD player at home.

His younger brother, Chen Qing, who was two years younger than his brother, was told to go home and get the DVD player from the lost items taken by the robbers.

He knew the truth.

In fact, his brother didn't want him to take revenge, Chen Qing just wanted his younger brother to live in the sun and be a good person.

But what the elder brother doesn't know is that the younger brother actually has special abilities.

But unlike the elder brother, the younger brother doesn't feel that this is a superior thing, so he has been hiding his abilities.

Until this case, the younger brother had a decision.

He wants to find the murderer and kill him with his own hands!

So he gave up his identity and chose to live as his brother Chen Qing.

And the Chen Qing who died became his younger brother Chen Qing.

Why did Kira smile so happily at the end?

Because his purpose was achieved.

He eventually discovers that it was his younger brother, not his brother, who was the same shadow as him.

However, this younger brother, who is a light, finally chooses the path that his brother does not want him to take.

He used his power to kill Kira.

He is no longer a light, he has become a shadow.

Of course, the last part is written directly on the script, but what is filmed in the official movie will not be directly told to the audience.

Open-ended ending.

After reading the script, Liu Mang took a deep breath: "Lao Fang, this ...... It's a commercial film, right?"

Fang Bei smiled slightly: "Is there depth?"

"Yes. ”

"Then it's a literary film. ”

Liu Mang wanted to say something more, but Fang Bei took the lead and said: "Tell me first, what is a good movie?"

The question of "good movie ......" really stumped Liu Mang.

"Can you sell it for money?"

"That's the truth. ”

This world is different from Fang Bei's previous life.

In his world, the domestic film industry has also undergone changes.

The garbage shot with small fresh meat can also have a high box office, after all, there are brain-dead fans who pay for it.

But can you say that things that aren't even as good as slides are good movies?

I'm afraid not.

However, before Fang Bei crossed over, the film industry in that world had tended to be rational.

It is already difficult for the movies of traffic stars to win high box office again.

And this world does not have this kind of experience, high-grossing movies...... It must be a movie that the public loves.

Some directors like to say that they are making literary films, and he disdains to make commercial films.

But in Fang Bei's cognition, these are just the hard mouths of those waste wood directors, either making low-box office movies or literary films that a few people can't understand.

The best literary films must be commercial films, because good literary films can also sell at the box office.

"The Pianist at Sea", "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", "Forrest Gump", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Truman's World", including the domestic "I Am Not the God of Medicine", are these commercial films or literary films?

Cinema is the seventh art, a collection of three forms of literary expression: text, image, and sound.

Therefore, don't think that in addition to the visual effects of the film itself, a movie that can arouse people's thinking with some depth and connotation is a literary film.

So he chose to change this script.

But in order not to win the award, Fang Bei also hoped that something was added to it.

For example, the special abilities of the protagonist duo.

Movies with big production and big special effects, don't believe that the old guys who judge the awards won't like it.

Just look at Liu Mang's reaction.

"So what is that special ability! stand-in? Is it really okay for this kind of thing to appear in literary films?"

Don't shrug your shoulders: "There is depth, connotation and story, what is this not a literary film?"

"But this is ......"

But this is also too far from the literary films that everyone understands!

That's what you don't want!

Through the last movie, he discovered one thing.

What the eldest lady cares about is not the box office, what she cares about is the public's sense of identity.

Only a movie with a double harvest of awards and word-of-mouth can satisfy her!

So don't just change a movie that smashes special effects like crazy, and then say that this is a literary film!

When the time comes, the award judges are not satisfied, and the audience who comes to the literary film is not satisfied, so what else is there to say?

Fang Bei stood up: "It's decided, what should everyone do?" ”

Su Mulin grabbed him: "What are you going to do?"

Fang Bei looked back and smiled: "Find an actor." ”

Who will play Kira best?

Of course, it's Kira Yoshikage, the manager of the nail salon next door!

PS: JOJO Part 4 + Part of Infernal Affairs + Part of White Night Walk + Part of White Night Chasing Murderer + Batman: Deadly Joke, Is there a head?