Before the opening of the Venice Film Festival, the whole water city has been transformed into a paradise for movies, taking a small boat under the leadership of the captain to shuttle through the city, Lin Han and Chen Jiaxuan feel this precious tranquility. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The retro architecture looks very contemporary, and even if you don't understand Italian, you can feel the romance in the air, and the two of them look exactly like other tourists, but choose to record the scenery with their eyes instead of with their cameras.

"It's really beautiful!"

Under the night wind, Chen Jiaxuan's bright shawl fluttered gently, and Lin Han leaned on the bow of the boat to greet the passing boat, obviously no one knew her, but everyone smiled brightly.

Lin Han said: "So it's good for us to go out for a walk every year, and we can watch a few movies by the way and go back." ”

Many films in this film festival have not been imported into China, and it is very important for Lin Han, a beginner director, to take a look at the master's works first!

"Can you take me to Cannes next year, I have been envious of the red carpet over there for a long time, and I always didn't have the opportunity to go up when I used to promote it. ”

Chen Jiaxuan is more pragmatic, none of the artists under her staff spent money to buy tickets, nor did they use the three major film festivals or Oscars to promote, this time she has the opportunity to come to Venice, and she has already begun to look forward to the next time.

Lin Han thought about it seriously, and he said, "This task is a bit arduous, but you can still try, in case it is realized!"

"What are you going to bring to Cannes next year, don't be too ambitious. ”

According to the filming schedule of Leonardo's "Bouquet for Algernon", it is possible that they will go to the Cannes Film Festival to harvest some of the influence, and then use the influence of the film festival to march towards the Oscars. ”

has been nominated for an Oscar many times, and this time Leonardo wants to use more superb and contrasting acting skills to conquer those in the academy, Charlie's mentally retarded process of becoming smart and then stupid is probably the favorite genre of the Oscar judges.

Although Lin Han is quite confident in himself, he really doesn't dare to pat his chest and say that his new film will definitely be shortlisted for the Cannes Film Festival, which is not an easy thing for any director!

It was already past nine o'clock in the evening when the two of them returned to the hotel, and after the jet lag, they could take a shower and sleep peacefully.

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The morning sun shone into the hotel, and Lin Han, who was asleep, had already gotten up and done push-ups on the balcony for a while, and the whole city seemed to be awakened.

The opening ceremony was scheduled for two o'clock in the afternoon, so now Lin Han had nothing to do, and he couldn't wake up the sleeping Chen Jiaxuan, so he simply took his laptop to the balcony and started typing in the sunshine!

Hyperion was a book he had high hopes for, and not a single chapter could be ignored, so he was especially cautious now when he began to conceive the fourth story of Hyperion.

This is already the middle part of the novel, and it depends on this story if you are a Jackie Chan or a snake!

Scholar Saul Winterberg and his daughter, the subtitle of this story is called How Bitter the Water of Lethe River, almost the most sensational part of the whole book, Lin Han was also moved by this story at the beginning.

Before the birth of his daughter Rachel, Saul Winterberg and Temperament Salais have been living a very happy life, and the real tragedy is to destroy good things for people to see, so Lin Han spent a lot of pen and ink describing the story of the scholar Saul Winterberg and his wife!

The more happy and happy the front is, the more sad and miserable the back is, and the contrast is particularly strong.

Just when the family is rejoicing, their daughter Rachel goes to Hyperion to study the ruins of the civilization of the Tomb of Time, but the accident happened here!

The scholar Thor was guided in a dream to go to a planet called Hyperion and sacrifice his daughter Rachel!

When Rachel was exploring the mound, she was knocked down for an inexplicable reason, and she began to go backwards against time as if she was rejuvenating.

This idea is actually a bit like the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (aka Rejuvenation) starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, the male protagonist is born as a crumpled old man, and as he grows older, he instead changes from an old man to a middle-aged man, then a young man, and finally a teenager, and when he dies he is a baby!

Rachel in the story is the same, obviously she is already smart and talented as a member of the scientific expedition team, but she has been reversed by time, and she has become young and naïve little by little.

What a sense of accomplishment it is to watch a child go from crying and looking for milk to being able to raise his head, sit up, walk, and talk! But the tragic scholar Saul has to witness his daughter slowly turn from an adult to an infant baby, and Saul's wife can only tearfully find the clothes that her daughter wore when she was a child, from being able to walk to returning to the cradle, Rachel's first and last words in her life are "Mom" , Lin Han skillfully used sensational techniques to make readers unable to control their tear ducts!

It's just that in this world, Lin Han didn't see the existence of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", so this idea should not be bad yet.

However, since it is defined as a classic, if it is just purely sensational, the pattern is too small, so Lin Han added a setting that the scholar must sacrifice his infant baby to the devil for the grand goal of "saving all mankind", which is enough to make people lament.

What's more, their daughter Rachel also persuaded Thor in a dream that she was willing to be sacrificed, which made her even more tearful!

This is not just a hymn to paternal love, but for the scholar, the conundrum that haunts his soul is, where is the bottom line of morality?

To show his obedience, Abraham offered his son to God. In the eyes of Saul, an ethicist, the decision to sacrifice innocent children as sacrifices was evil in the first place!

But this dedication was rewarded with a gift from God and ultimately the child's life. When this paradox happened to him, the pain he endured and fought against was not only the departure of his daughter, but he had to make his own choice.

This is the story of an ordinary person, not a priest, not a colonel, not a poet, so ordinary that it makes people feel full of substitution, and it is extremely easy to resonate!

Rachel is getting smaller day by day, forgetting the precious memories she once shared with her family and lovers, and forgetting the sweet code words like "good night, swifts;

She always felt that the essence of the human experience was not just in the pinnacle moments, such as the wedding day or the arrival of success, which were dazzling in the memory, like the days circled in red in the old calendar, but on the other hand, in the mundane trivialities that inadvertently walked by—the weekend afternoons, when each member of the family focused on what he was pursuing, who met by chance in their respective work. Contact, short conversations don't stay in memory for long, but the synergistic effect of such time is extremely important and eternal. ”

"Listen, there will be no more sacrifices, neither children, nor parents, nor any one will sacrifice for salvation for the rest of us humans, in obedience!"

"I'm done, either let us go, or join us as a father, and don't accept other people's sacrifices in vain. That's Abraham's choice!"

After Lin Han knocked down such a paragraph, his mood couldn't help but become heavy, even if the story of the old scholar and his daughter was finished here, this chapter was not over yet.

Every story begins with a group of people on a pilgrimage to Hyperion chatting, and ends with their group chatting too!

The poet Martin Selinas, the protagonist of the previous chapter, closed his eyes and read: "Thinking of this, all hatred is cast out and dispersed,

The soul regains its fundamental innocence,

finally learned that it was self-amusement,

Self-sufficiency, self-fright,

Its own good wishes are providence,

In spite of the irritation of every face,

Every wind source will roar, or every set of bellows will burst,

But she will still rejoice. ”

This little poem "A Prayer for My Daughter", originally by William Butler Yeats, is now borrowed by Lin Han in this place to use the poet's mouth to speak his thoughts!

He had also borrowed Yeats's poem "When You're Old" before, and now the poetry is even more literary when integrated into the novel.

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A few hours passed quietly, and after Lin Han stole half a day of leisure, he wrote the content of this chapter before Chen Jiaxuan got up!

The speed of his hand was fully released, and his ten fingers almost pressed an afterimage on the keyboard, and the speed reached the point of five thousand words per hour.

Lin Han finally checked the sentence, and then connected to Weibo with the hotel's WiFi, giving readers a sudden surprise!

The time difference between Venice and Yanjing is seven hours, and it is only 11 o'clock in the morning here, and it is already 6 o'clock in the afternoon in Yanjing, and it happens that this is a weekend, so there are more people free.

Many people know that Lin Han has left for the Venice Film Festival, and the story of the poet before is still being discussed, and many people think that Lin Han will not update it for the time being.

Who knew that Lin Han would be able to post new chapters when he came out to participate in the event now, this "Scholar's Story: How Bitter the Water of Lethe River" not only surprised readers, but also made them full of worries!

Liu Jun is one of the more hardcore fans of the Hanlin Academy, but after working overtime on the weekend, he had to choose to take the subway because of the restriction of the tail number of the car, and just turned on the 4G traffic to refresh Weibo, he saw a series of news related to Lin Han.

"I went to the film festival and sent out two chapters of the novel, can the quality be guaranteed?" Liu Jun said, opening the latest chapter of the novel, "But don't perfunctory us because of the quantity." ”

He didn't care about the subway stop-and-go and the passengers up and down, he sat on the seat and watched the novel engrossedly, Liu Jun, who had become a father, suddenly found that he could understand the feeling of a scholar very well, if his daughter became young and young little by little, he probably couldn't perform better than the scholar Saul!

The story changed the style of the previous article and made the scholar's story more moving, and the readers almost all read it with tears in their eyes, and the critics were surprised by the diversity of Lin Han's work.

"Teacher Lin took out his housekeeping skills again, the sensationalism is too powerful, I don't want to cry!"

"I was just shocked, surprised, and reflective in the previous story, but the story of the scholar made me feel a little empathy, and the sadness was simply reversed!"

"Strongly condemn Mr. Lin, and warn everyone, don't read this chapter in public again, otherwise you will cry at your mobile phone like me......"

"I couldn't understand the Bible stories interspersed in the novel, and I didn't know what Abraham was, but I was surprised by Lin Han's knowledge, which was obviously a novel, but it showed his encyclopedic knowledge accumulation, which was really enviable. ”

"Crying blind, Mr. Lin begs to inform Sol and his daughter Rachel of the final ending, don't be a tragedy, let's have a happy ending!"

"What touched me the most in the novel, not the rest, was when Saul heard the bad news from his wife, when little Rachel and her father could no longer talk to each other, tears welled up in tears. Mutual affection, boundless love!"

Readers have given it a very high evaluation, placing human beings in the background of science fiction, whether it is soft science fiction or hard science fiction, what can impress people is good science fiction!

If it weren't for the fact that Douban Reading hadn't opened the scoring function for "Hyperion" at this time, otherwise its score would be more amazing than the original "Inception", this article is under the long micro blog, above the forum of the Hanlin Academy and even in the Douban science fiction group, this chapter is almost zero negative reviews!

In fact, not only readers, but also professional book reviewers are deeply touched.

A well-known book reviewer directly sighed in his TV program, "If the first three stories can still be said to be a classic, then the fourth story will rise to a god as soon as it comes out! I highly recommend everyone to take a look, after this book is written, it will inevitably leave its own name in the history of world science fiction and even the history of world literature!"

Niu Tianshu, an older generation book reviewer who had always only read physical books, broke his inherent reading habits because of the strong recommendation of his peers, and saw the preface of "Hyperion" and the later updated chapters with the help of his assistant, which surprised him greatly.

This important master in the world of book criticism rarely wrote his own evaluation for a novel that has not yet been updated: "The story described by Lin Han is fresh enough and quite touching, and such creativity, coupled with the author's lively tone, brings people an extraordinary impact." In his latest scholar's story, he not only describes the time of the counter-current, but also describes the memory of the counter-current, and this kind of pen power is amazing, and I will not be surprised if he wins the Nobel Prize in Literature one day!"