Zhang Chen handed the driver a twenty dollar bill, and the driver thanked him happily and drove away.

What catches your eye is a theater that looks very old, and the colorful neon lights at the entrance of the theater are pieced together into the good letters "Castro".

It makes Zhang Chen feel like he is in the sixties and seventies.

"Hey, Zack, you seem to be getting taller again. Natalie looked up at Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen touched his nose: "Maybe I've grown a little taller, but now it should be five feet and ten inches." ”

Natalie envied: "My height hasn't changed in a year, I'm so scared that I won't grow tall anymore, it will be too short." ”

Zhang Chen looked at Natalie's height of about one meter six, and comforted: "You are not short in height, but if you want to grow taller, you still have to add more protein, you only eat vegetarian food every day now, maybe the recipe is too monotonous." ”

Natalie pouted, "I don't want to eat meat, you carnivores are terrible." ”

After buying two tickets, Zhang Chen and Natalie entered the movie theater of the Castro Theater.

The Castro Theater is the oldest theater in San Francisco and has been the setting for many famous films, such as Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso and Quentin's perverted film Inglourious Basterds. Among them, "Cinema Paradiso" is known as the pioneer of art films.

The amphitheater, dimly lit, patterned walls and columns resemble both a church and a theater where Lincoln was assassinated a hundred years ago. An atmosphere of ancient nostalgia surrounded the 1,400 spectators.

The movie hasn't started yet, and today it should be an old Hitchcock film from the fifties - "Ecstasy".

The screen was constantly showing stills from Hitchcock's films, and suddenly, the sound of the organ sounded leisurely, and an old luthier in a tuxedo played a movie interlude from "Ecstasy" and the organ rose from below the stage.

The screen slowly closed, and the projector of the film played a silhouette of Hitchcock's head on the black screen, and the audience erupted in thunderous applause.

Natalie also applauded happily, and Zhang Chen looked at Natalie's side face a little distracted. Natalie Portman doesn't belong to the kind of beauty that Scarlett Johansson is like at first sight, but her temperament is very unique, and few Hollywood actresses have her tangled temperament.

Zhang Chen hadn't seen this Hitchcock masterpiece, and he quickly immersed himself in the plot.

The film of the fifties had a special sense of dusk, and this film was shot in San Francisco, and you can see a lot of San Francisco in the movie, such as the Golden Gate Bridge, which is no different from now.

The movie is about a private detective with a fear of heights, who was hired to follow his employer's wife, and on the way to the track, the detective fell in love with the employer's wife, but the employer's wife seemed to be mentally unstable, not long after, on the way to track, the employer's wife went up to a bell tower, and the private detective did not follow because of his fear of heights, and when he hesitated, he heard a scream, and the employer's wife committed suicide by jumping from the bell tower.

The detective blames himself, thinking that his mistake caused his sweetheart to have a nervous breakdown and jump off the building to commit suicide, so he borrows alcohol all day to drown his sorrows.

By chance, he met a woman who looked very similar to his employer's wife, and he couldn't help but fall in love with her, and then, when he made love with this mysterious woman, he found that this woman had the employer's wife's jewelry, so the detective became suspicious.

Seeing that the final mystery was about to be revealed, Natalie whispered in Zhang Chen's ear: "Love will blind people and can't see the truth clearly." ”

The warm breath and the smell of perfume on Natalie's body penetrated into Zhang Chen's nostrils, making him a little confused.

In a trance, Zhang Chen saw the male protagonist find the jewelry on the heroine's body in the movie and understood everything. It turned out that it was not the employer's wife who had been stalking, but this woman.

This woman was also hired by the employer, and the employer wanted to kill his wife, so he hired the male protagonist and set up a bureau. made the actor think that his employer's wife committed suicide by jumping off the building, and created an alibi for himself.

Seeing this, Zhang Chen's brain was shocked, his heart was clear, and he turned his head to stare at Natalie, who also smiled at him gently. Zhang Chen suddenly reached out to brush away the hair around Natalie's ear, and his fingers lightly touched the skin on Natalie's face, and Natalie's breathing couldn't help but become a little short.

Zhang Chen leaned close to Natalie's ear and whispered, "Nat, you don't like me, do you?"

Natalie's originally intoxicated expression froze for a moment, and then she chuckled, "Why do you think that?"

Zhang Chen's eyes were bright in the dark: "If you think about it carefully, it's really strange." You've only heard me talk at Stanford, and we haven't had much contact since then. And the relationship between you and me, from the very beginning, you are mastering the rhythm and giving me the illusion that you like me, right?"

Natalie held Zhang Chen's hand: "Zack, you're thinking too much. ”

Zhang Chen shook his head and said, "No, there are too many differences in race, culture, and growth environment between you and me. I think I'm a little charming, but I'm self-aware of whether I can appeal to you enough. You are also an extremely rational and calm person, and I don't believe that this kind of thing can happen to you and me at first sight. I'm not sure why you did it, but I can try to guess. ”

Natalie seemed to be smiling, but there was a hint of vigilance in her beautiful eyes: "Then guess?"

Zhang Chen smiled and put it in Natalie's ear: "You have a person in your heart who has always liked, and this person is something you want to forget, and you don't want others to know, right?

Natalie's face changed, and her eyes sharpened.

Zhang Chen's eyes lit up, this is which aura Matilda, Natalie Portman, who has a perfect life setting in the later life, is a little too boring.

The corners of Zhang Chen's mouth curled, and there was a little imperceptible cruelty in his voice, "Let Renault." ”

The fierceness in Natalie's eyes flashed: "Shut up!"

Zhang Chen raised his hands, "Okay, okay, I can understand, after all, you were only 13 years old when you made that movie, and it's not surprising that there is a problem of character empathy." But I really admire you. At such a young age, you can hide your emotions so well. ”

Natalie stared at Zhang Chen fiercely, her chest heaving, she suddenly stood up and walked out of the theater in embarrassment.

Zhang Chen hurriedly chased him out, not that he wanted to have something happen to Natalie, but that the security around here was not good, and if something happened to Natalie, he might blame himself for the rest of his life.

(End of chapter)