Chapter Seventy-Eight: Following

After finally escaping to the door of the screening room, Sid smiled exaggeratedly, "Wow, I didn't expect San Franciscans to be so welcoming." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"It's your stupid brother, it's too big, do you know how popular you are out there now? Lindsay, the little girl, first patted her chest and breathed a few sighs of relief, and then complained coquettishly.

"Really? I'm not a backstreet boy and spice girl group. Sid shrugged unconsciously, then pushed Lin Circuit, "Okay, okay, the movie is about to start, let's get in." ”

This is a small medium-sized screening hall, and there are not many audiences who come to watch, Sid and the others found a middle position and sat down, chatted in a low voice, and the movie began.

The light curtain slowly lit up on the dark screen, and a black and white world slowly appeared, and it was actually a square four-to-three picture. But before the crowd could say anything, a picture of a pair of hands beginning to wear rubber gloves appeared in a rapid drum beat.

Then these hands began to "clean up" things on the dresser, and at a glance, the opening scene of the movie was a burglary!

Then the film begins to tell in a man's voice. A self-confessed man who talks about his penchant for stalking strangers. This kind of behavior with a bit of taboo and some danger hooked the audience very well.

Then as the tracking gets out of control, he is discovered by a well-dressed man, just when he is afraid of being caught by the other party and sent to the police station. The other party took the initiative to confess to him that he was a thief, and invited him, a stalker, to join his gang and do a vote together.

The movie is going on so far, which has hooked the audience's curiosity very well.

A man with a stalker's fetish and a well-dressed thief, what sparks can they collide with?

But their first burglary turned out to be unfavorable, and in the middle of the burglary, the owners of the house, a young couple, returned. In the end, the two used people pretending to be real estate agents to barely get by.

The man with stalker came to the bar alone in order to relax, and at the bar he met a beautiful blonde woman, who came up to talk to him but was slapped in the face, but the other party left the words "meet you outside in ten minutes". It turned out that in the corner of the bar, a gang boss was watching them. And the blonde woman was his mistress.

The stalker man who brought the blonde woman back to his home, and after a few small talks, the woman excused herself and left.

So far, the story is okay, but overall it's relatively bland, and I don't see anything special. Kevin Feige and Justin Lin looked at the movie on the screen strangely, not quite understanding Sid's reason for coming to watch it.

But suddenly the picture turned, and the male protagonist, who had originally flirted with a woman, looked like he had a blue nose and swollen face, and called his fellow thieves to arrange the next solo action.

What's going on? Wasn't he okay just now? And in the conversation between the two, the thief looked unwilling to get involved, which was the exact opposite of the scene when the two had just fought intimately.

Several viewers thought strangely.

The scene then shifts again, and the thief and stalker protagonist climb a building again to shoplift. But now all the injuries on the stalker's protagonist's face are gone, and the two seem to be "back" to their close comrades.

What's going on?

Although the general audience is still a little confused, Justin Lin vaguely thinks of something.

But that's not all, the two of them enter the house where they want to burglarize, and several keen viewers immediately notice, uh, why does the typewriter on the table look so familiar? Why does it look so much like the stalker's protagonist who just brought the blonde woman into his house!?

What the hell is stealing your own house?

Then the burglar saw through it at a glance, and the owner of the house was either an unemployed person or a student, and finally the burglar left on his own initiative. Next, the stalker protagonist comes to the blonde woman's house.

The two of them sat down and talked about the blonde woman's house that had just been burglarized, and the woman mentioned that she had stolen an earring. After the woman said this and left, the stalker protagonist immediately got up and rummaged through the covered box.

Did he steal it with the thief?

The audience who will come to this kind of film festival is either filmmakers, old movie fans or professional media reporters, and they are quick to guess the meaning of the stalker's protagonist. But when did they steal it?

Did the director deliberately omit this paragraph? Or did he forget?

Then the stalker protagonist went upstairs and saw the blonde woman in a daze, and the two kissed and made out for a while.

Then the screen turns again, and the stalker's protagonist has a blue nose and swollen face again, and he is preparing the tools for theft, and is making plans and mental preparations.

At this time, several viewers realized - "Pulp Fiction"?

Isn't this kind of fragmentary story structure interspersed with back-and-forth similar to Quentin Tarantino's "Vulgar Decimals"?

Quentin Tarantino made a splash with "Pulp Fiction", a new circular story structure, with three stories interspersed, and finally returned to a circular story. Quentin Tarantino has stunned the global film industry with this film. And this black-and-white film seems to be an improvement made by itself after borrowing the structure of "Pulp Fiction".

Then the screen turns again, and one hand breaks a glass door and breaks in. It's the thief and stalker, and they're stealing together again. At first, the audience didn't care, but as the camera followed the two patrolling the house, everyone's eyes widened when the piano in the living room appeared.

Isn't this the home of the blonde woman? This is a recap of the thief duo, who have been stealing before?

Although the current timeline is a bit confusing, everyone doesn't know which one counts before and which one counts after.

With the theft, the burglar steals the blonde woman's underwear, while the stalker protagonist steals a selfie of the blonde woman. As for the pair of pearl earrings, it turned out that the thieves had stolen one and hid it in the sheet music box next to the piano.

After the shoplift, the scene shifts to a stalker and a blonde woman, eating and dating at a restaurant.

By this time, Justin Lin, Kevin Feige and most viewers had already understood that this film was playing with interspersed editing. Unlike Pulp Fiction, which has a tightly knit circular structure, this black-and-white film is characterized by the same protagonist's interspersed narration of three stories in different states.

The blonde woman on a date talks about her gangster mistress, who, in an attempt to establish his prestige, brought a man in debt to her house and smashed all of his fingers in front of her. Subsequently, the blonde woman and the stalker protagonist broke up because they were arguing about the gangster and the mistress.

The scene turns again, and the stalker's protagonist with a blue nose and swollen face breaks into the bar run by the gang boss, and the bar is empty, so he breaks into the innermost office, pries open the safe, and steals all the money from it.

But the protagonist of Tease's stalker, who neither brought nor found the bag, sweated profusely, pulled open a roll of tape and seemed to think of some solution.

The scene then changes again, this time with the thief and the stalker, having a dinner in a restaurant, celebrating their first successful theft. After eating, the thief pulls out a check and asks the stalker's protagonist to sign his name, "Enjoy spending someone else's money at once and enjoying the things of your own life".

But at the end of the meal, the hostess of the house where the first burglary between the two of them had been broken suddenly entered the restaurant. At this moment, the stalker's protagonist was so frightened that he immediately became restless, and at the urging of the stalker's protagonist, the two had to leave early. The unhappy thief asks the stalker protagonist to change his outfit and don't look like a sissy thief. This is what many people have discovered, and it turns out that the protagonist of stalkerism has always been a long-haired and big-back head.

Then the protagonist hangs up his beard at home and cuts his hair short, which is the short-haired protagonist with a blue nose and swollen face!

He then counted the items he had stolen from the blonde woman's house at home, after which he called his fellow thieves. After the call, a woman suddenly said something to the thief off-camera, and the camera swept away, and the thief jumped on Chuang, and the woman on Chuang was actually the blonde woman!

Everyone's eyes widened!

It's all a routine!?

The thief and the woman then talk intimately about the process of setting up the stalker, and hinting at the process of changing his image.

Once here, the scene shifts back to the stalker's protagonist who is shoplifting in a bar, and it turns out that he finally comes up with a solution - wrap all the money around himself with duct tape. Watching the stalker protagonist strip naked, sweating profusely and sticking all the money to himself.

Like a Michelin tire man, most of the audience laughed.

"It's stupid. Lindsey covered her mouth and laughed.

"If you're not stupid, you won't be tricked by others. Sid shrugged.

At this point, one of the night watchmen of the gang returns, and the stalker scuffles with him, and in the confusion, the protagonist picks up the hammer he carries with him, knocks the gang member to the ground with a hammer, and then escapes.

The scene changes again, and the protagonist, who has short hair but no blue nose and swollen face, comes to the blonde woman's house and voluntarily admits to her that he has burglarized her home. The blonde woman said that she was threatened by the gang leader with "some photos", and then the protagonist of the hero saving the beauty plot planned to steal the gang leader.

"Well, it's a bit of a mess, and now I can't figure out who's who. Lindsay was a little confused when she saw this.

Sid also noticed that the structure of the film is a bit too messy, and the same characters, in different time periods, alternate with each other, which will make people who do not deliberately remember the plot unable to connect with the story because they forget the previous situation.