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Henry Harmon walked slowly down the cobblestone path, having just watched a few inexplicable movies, and he was in a bad mood.

As a resident critic of the French film magazine Cinema Observer, he is not absent from Cannes every year, and although he has discovered some good films, they are more salty and tasteless - in terms of the degree of French hypocrisy.

He watched three movies this morning, still in the official competition section, but it made people drowsy, and he really didn't like it, so he went to the alley to breathe.

Although the status of "Film Observer" in the industry is not as good as "Film Manual", or even "Feature Film", it is also a first-tier film magazine, so Harmon has always been unceremonious about the garbage he sees.

After lunch, resting for a while, I walked around the cinema again, and was about to go back to write a few scathing comments, when I suddenly saw a movie poster at the end of the right that was interesting.

An oblique Polaroid camera photograph occupies the front and side of the poster, with a somewhat scruffy Asian man looking back at something, and then in the middle of this oblique Polaroid photo, there is a diagonal photo of an Asian woman inside, and the angle of inclination is the opposite of the man outside, in a "Y" shape.

What's more, there is another photo of a woman in the photo, and the figure is the outermost man, and there is a picture in the man's photo, and he changes back to a woman, which is like ...... The two mirrors are placed parallel to each other, facing each other, and countless mirror images are refracted inside.

"It's interesting. Harmon thought for a moment, then walked over and looked at the French on the poster, "Memory...... Fragments?"

Finally a little interested, he went to see the introduction again, and suddenly a scoop of cold water poured on his head, it was actually a Hong Kong movie!

It took him a few seconds to think about Hong Kong, and then he smiled disdainfully, he had seen the movies in that place before, rough and vulgar, and many of them couldn't even be filmed on location.

If you can't do it, you'll make the set more realistic!

Thinking of this, Hamon pulled his legs and left, he had already learned three lessons in the morning, and he didn't want to waste time on this kind of movie, even if the poster was very innovative. But he stopped after only two steps, because he clearly saw that someone had just bought a ticket to enter the show, George Duvre of the "Movie Handbook."

Although he can't talk about his opponent, Harmon has been unhappy with Duvre for a long time, he looks down on the other party's kind of views that like to play tricks, and talks about the techniques of the movie, but he never cares if it touches the heart.

Naturally, the other party never liked his own point of view, and mocked him at every opportunity, so seeing that he bought a ticket to go in, Harmon thought about it and bought a ticket to go in, if you want to criticize, you can't say that you don't see anything and criticize it, right?

The cinema is not big, about three or four hundred people, almost half of the seats are seated, Harmon shook his head, although there is a seat number, but he has found a seat in the back.

Anyway, it won't be full like this, so I don't have to worry about being seen by Dufer.

Soon the lights dimmed and the movie began, much to Harmon's displeasure at the beginning. He watched it inexplicably, and after ten minutes of playing, he realized that the movie was a flashback at first, then a main narrative, and then a flashback.

What's more, the flashback at the beginning even rewinds time, the Polaroid photo goes from having an image to not having an image, then retracting the camera, blood flowing into the corpse, and the bullet casing jumping back into the pistol.

But after the first main narrative, the time of the next flashback is normal, and the time of the subsequent flashback is also normal.

You're turning back the time of the flashback. Harmon sneered in his heart, looking down on him more and more, so he was deceitful and insincere, especially the fragments of the main narrative were deliberately made black and white.

Although I know that this is to distinguish it from flashbacks, as a director, I actually want to use this method to distinguish two clues, where is the basic skill?

But he still watched patiently, and then figured out a little bit of the plot, probably an insurance salesman, after accepting a claim for brain damage caused by an attack, short-term memory loss, and inability to have new memories, after breaking the other party's trick and getting a promotion. Unexpectedly, because the robbers entered the house and were knocked to the ground during the fight, he suffered a serious brain injury, and also suffered from short-term memory loss, so he had to write small notes to live and find a way to avenge his wife who was killed by the robbers.

A good story. Harmon commented in his heart, looking down on the director more and more. Such a story, even without these little tricks, can be made into a movie that tortures human nature.

Well, Hong Kong directors, if they could make a movie like that, they wouldn't play such a little trick.

Harmon wanted to get up and leave several times, he had already seen several people leave, apparently they also felt that the movie could not be watched, and it was edited in pieces and pieces...... Wait, that's where the name "Fragments of Memory" comes from?

This forty-year-old film critic couldn't help but lament in his heart, which means that the remaining dozens of minutes will be like this. Let's start with a few minutes of black-and-white narration to tell the origin of the whole thing, and then a few minutes of flashbacks to tell the audience what the actor has done.

Harmon exclaimed inwardly with indignation, if it weren't for the fact that Duvre was sitting in front of him, he would really want to leave, such a fragmentary editing was so annoying.

Well, there is also suspense, at least the audience can't be sure that the guy who was shot at the beginning is not the robber he wants to find who killed his wife. He finally found such a reason for himself to watch it in his heart.

And then...... Then he fell asleep, no way, the more he went to the back, the more he didn't want to watch it, every time a new plot came out, he had to take time to recall, what he had said before, and the black and white narrative kept nagging endlessly, which was really hypnotic.

So, when the protagonist of Shunxu is still nagging in the black and white hotel, oh, there is no more nagging, and when he is about to go out, Harmon finally can't resist the sleepiness and falls asleep, until he is awakened by the hero's self-talk.

"Well, it's finally over. Harmon grunted as the movie came to an abrupt halt when the actor's car stopped outside a tattoo parlor, making him feel a sense of relief.

However, when he was surprised, after the lights in the screening room were turned on, there were still about a hundred people sitting, and it seemed that not many people were leaving.

Shrugging, Harmon looked over to Duvre, the guy hadn't gone yet, and he didn't know where he pulled out a small notebook on which he was jotting something.

With a sneering laugh, Harmon went straight out of the cinema, even though it was still early, he had no intention of watching other movies, and went straight back to the hotel, asked for a typewriter and crackled.

"......'The Search' is a work of utter mediocrity, and perhaps the opening scenery is the only highlight......"

"...... "River of Life" probably only has a name worthy of praise......"

"...... "Desert Under the Moonlit Night" tells a complete story, and there is only one complete story......"

After refuting several movies he had watched in the morning, Harmon carefully recalled the plot of "Fragments of Memory" before starting to beat again: "'Fragments of Memory' tells the story of a man who embarks on a journey to avenge his wife after being injured by a burglar and unable to write down anything new. He didn't know what to do, where to look for clues, or even where he was, so he could only rely on notes and tattoos to guide him.

This is actually a very good subject, whether it is starting from the contradiction between the real and the unreal, or from the contradiction between the past and the future, it can be a topic that can be deepened. However, Jing Wang, a Hong Kong director, did not think of digging deep at all, so the exploration was superficial, and then told a suspenseful story with this.

And that's not the worst of all, the worst thing is that in order to keep the whole story suspenseful, he didn't hesitate to cut the film to pieces, and also used two colors to distinguish the only two threads, but this did nothing but make the film structure fit the name.

As for the actors, the roles are quite full, but the male and female protagonists have not fully tapped into the characteristics of the characters, and the male protagonists always seem very impatient, as if no one believes in them, lacking a little numbness. And the heroine seems to be sleepwalking, as if she wants to have some chemistry with the male protagonist, but she is always missing something.

On the contrary, it is the supporting actor named Wu who plays a flamboyant little character vividly, and is the most brilliant actor in the whole movie......"

After finishing in one breath, he revised a few more words, and Harmon nodded in satisfaction. Although I didn't see the ending, it was easy to guess based on what I had seen and the introduction of the content.

Actually, he originally planned to watch the ending again, a movie ticket, but if you think about it, don't be tortured again.

So, Mr. Harmon, who had finished the draft, called the waiter and sent it out, losing the last chance to redeem his reputation.

Two days later, the article was published in the newspaper of the newspaper group "New Observer", which is also owned by the magazine, after all, it is not something that can be done by email in 20 years.

However, Henry Harmon had no intention of looking through it at all, and still wandered around the cinemas in Cannes, picking on the thorns of those unknown films, until he saw in the newspaper one of the members of the jury, Chaplin's daughter Geraldine Chaplin's evaluation of "Fragments of Memory": "This is a film with a unique temperament, and it is also a film that requires you to pay full attention to the rhythm, and you may miss the clues if you are not careful, which is very good and very innovative......