The independent hall of 500 people was originally too worried about Vermilion. After all www.biquge.info when the Cannes Film Festival premiered, the attendance rate of the small hall with about 200 people was only about 50%.

But looking at the audience who kept buying tickets to enter, as the screening time got closer and closer, there were more and more people, and when the officials and film critics of the organizing committee who came to cheer arrived, except for the two rows of empty seats left in the front row, they were almost full.

There was a brief premiere before the official screening, mainly to introduce the main creator of the film, Wang Dalun is already familiar with the way now, Zhu Wen and the concubine are a little nervous, fortunately, there was no media interview arranged at the beginning of the scene, after the introduction, thank the audience and it will be over.

They returned to their seats, the lights dimmed, and the movie was officially shown.

It opens with the rushing sea in the afterglow of the sunset, and the turbid waters of the waves crash against the reef on the shore again and again. The camera shook violently, and two fishing men sat on a reef not far away.

Wang Dalun has not had a chance to watch this movie since he finished filming it. When filming, it was filmed according to the director's intentions, the logic was chaotic, one shot was fragmented, and the plot could not be connected at all, which was different from the cut film. He shares the audience's great interest and expectation in this film.

The first impression of the shaky and messy shot at the beginning is roughness, which is of course one of the styles of the Nantes Three Continents Film Festival, and the audience in the room was not surprised at all, and they all sat there and watched quietly.

The plot is very flat in the first few minutes, that is, Xiaomei, who wears sunglasses and plays a concubine, wanders the streets of Beidaihe in the evening, and then checks into a hotel. Only when Ma Liumin appeared on the stage did there be a slight movement in the theater. Don't look at Ma Liumin as an actor, but as a performance artist, his messy long hair and cold expression are like dropping a pebble on the calm water, which makes the originally dull plot suddenly come alive.

Soon the suicide of the poet played by Ma Liumin pushed the plot to the first climax, the poet was lying naked in the cold water, blood stained a bathtub of water, several policemen were taking pictures and doing on-site exploration, and the whole shot looked very cold.

At this time, Wang Dalun also appeared, wearing a straight police uniform and glasses, giving people the first impression that this policeman was very gentle. But on the contrary, his sternness when interrogating Xiaomei and the roughness when pulling are very different from his appearance.

Immediately afterwards, the police saw Xiaomei's tendency to commit suicide, and began to persuade her bitterly, and even used the identity of the police to invite her to eat seafood, and continued to persuade her.

The feeling of the audience at this moment: Oh, it turns out that the police are a good person.

But the police's persuasion didn't seem to work, Xiaomei changed to a hotel, got rid of the police, changed into a wedding dress and was about to commit suicide, the police came to the door again.

followed by the second climax of the film, when the police persuaded to no avail, they suddenly *** Xiaomei. The lens is extremely bold, and Wang Dalun feels embarrassed when he sees it. (The description of this scene was originally chapter 202, which has been combined with . Harmonic)

So the audience at this time classified the police as sexual. The ranks of the madmen, but then the police treated Xiaomei like a friend, using a borrowed luxury car to take Xiaomei around, and also took her to the place where Qin Shi Huang sought immortals and entered the sea, hoping that she could learn from the ancients and cherish life. At this moment, the police seem to be back in the ranks of the good guys.

There is a plot in which the police ask the restaurant owner to order something, and the boss comes up with a large soup bowl with three live loaches swimming in it, and the police swallow them one by one, which immediately causes a burst of exclamations. Western audiences simply cannot understand why Chinese think that swallowing live loaches is actually equivalent to the efficacy of Viagra.

In fact, when filming this scene, Wang Dalun was also driven to the shelves, although these three loaches are very small, and they have been raised for several days, the dirty things in their stomachs have almost vomited, and they have also been disinfected in light salt water, but this thing is alive after all. In the end, he swallowed all three loaches. He was also afraid that the loaches would burrow in his stomach, and as soon as he finished the shooting, he vomited a lot, only to find that the three loaches were dead.

He still clearly remembers that the restaurateur glanced at it and said with a look of pity: "This thing is really a big supplement!" ”

Gradually, the audience discovers that the police are in love with Xiaomei and even takes her home. The policeman's home is shabby, but the policeman's wife is a patient with a serious mental illness who has lost the ability to take care of herself. At this time, the audience began to faintly sympathize with the police, at least he did not abandon his wife, and he also had his own physical needs.

The cop is a *** exuberant guy and he does with the little babysitter. Love, only desire. But when he and Xiaomei are together, there is not only desire but also love!

It's a pity that Xiaomei doesn't love him, and being with him is just intimidated by his identity as a policeman, after all, Xiaomei's profession is not visible. She tried to get rid of the police and wanted to die, but she was chased back by the police every time.

The conflict finally broke out, and the police even pulled out a gun and aimed it at her head when the hard persuasion in the car was fruitless, telling her to kill him first if she wanted to die.

As a result, the gun really went off, it was a misfire, and the policeman was killed instantly.

Xiaomei was frightened, and her first reaction was to escape, but she miraculously calmed down, decisively faked the scene, and fled back to the capital overnight.

After all this, Xiaomei's will to die suddenly disappeared, and she only had one thing left to do, which was to return to her old business and be a responsible and peaceful prostitute. female, even running around to spend a 100-dollar counterfeit bill.

A long list of credits began to scroll on the screen, the lights came on, and a group of people seemed to be suddenly exposed to the theater, freezing all kinds of expressions, as if a world was changed in an instant.

"Whoa......

After a few seconds, some people began to stand up and applaud, and then the whole audience stood up and slapped vigorously. No one left, and they were thankful for the film.

Wang Dalun has experience in this area, and has received such treatment in Argentina's Matabrata's "East Palace and West Palace" and Venice's "Platform", but today it seems to be a little more enthusiastic.

He stood up and turned to face the audience, waving to the audience and thanking them for their recognition. Zhu Wen and Yanzi were obviously nervous, and even a little flustered, they couldn't believe that these applause were really for them? In Cannes, they didn't get that kind of treatment. They mechanically turned around and waved to the audience, following the example of Wang Dalun and Jacob.

In fact, the movie "Seafood" is not a three-stage structure in the traditional sense, it can only be said to be a two-stage structure. And the first paragraph is very long, with a complete story, with violence, with sex; The second paragraph is very short, only the boredom of life is interesting, and there is no drama in the traditional sense. There is a temporal relationship between the two parts, but it is definitely not causal.

But if you carefully watch the whole movie from beginning to end, you will find that the plot contains many elements, suicide, manslaughter, ***, sex, ethics, horror, life, politics, and so on. And the whole plot is constantly reversed, and the complexity of the characters is breathtaking.

The role of the policeman, in particular, is full of tension. He has his philosophy: he likes to eat seafood, *** exuberant and loves life, and then goes his own way and a prostitute who wants to commit suicide. The woman behaves in a manner that is commendable by the vitality of life. It's hard to describe him in one word as good or bad.

It is precisely this complexity of human nature and the cherishing of life that scratches the itch of Westerners.

For them, despite some of the film's empty and rough seaside landscapes, the sound of running, the sound of clothes rubbing against another, the brief contact between two stubborn people under their own principles, *** and the warmth that comes with it, the door of private life that has not been unfolded, and perhaps - style.

The style has to be complete and strong, and "Seafood" does exactly that. It narrates, even the sound, sometimes more intensely than the image; It is immersed in the narrative, tangled with the humble light, the meaningless long shots emphasized, the irrelevant and all the inconspicuous details; It's full of *** smell, fishy and unsettling, and even the most boring scenery is inspired by seafood, making humble bodies walk, talk, or hit bullets......

That's probably why they accepted the film and applauded it without hesitation.

Then, according to the usual practice, I was interviewed by the media, and the staff moved a few chairs. At this time, the audience was leaving the stage one after another, and Wang Dalun could even hear their whispers:

"Wow! He's got a big butt! ”

"I think he's good in black, he's so handsome!"

"That's right, in fact, China's police uniforms are quite handsome......"

Then he felt a series of hot eyes shoot at him.

There are not many journalists, only about a dozen, most of them are domestic reporters in France, and a few are from neighboring countries, Italy, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, etc.

In addition to coming up and politely asking Zhu Wen a few questions, the reporters' attention then focused on Wang Dalun.

Most of the questions were friendly, such as a local reporter asking him if he was confident about winning the Best Actor award for "Platform", which he starred in last year, was a huge success here, and this time he came with "Seafood"; Some reporters also asked him about his plans for this year's new film; Of course, it's more about asking questions related to movies.

But one of them, a brain-dead British reporter, asked him: "I remember that you also played a policeman in "East Palace and West Palace", and this time you played a policeman. I've noticed that the cops you play are very rough, is that how the police in your country are? ”

Can you have a good chat?

Wang Dalun rolled his eyes, and was about to lash out angrily, but Jacob on the side hurriedly rushed to the front and said, "I'm sorry, we don't answer questions related to politics. ”

Of course, this was just a small episode and did not affect everyone's mood. After returning to the hotel, Jacob and Vermilion were very excited, judging from the current situation, winning the award is certain, but it is still unknown whether they can replicate the glory of last year's "Platform" and win the highest Golden Balloon Award.

However, judging from today's response, at least the box office in France can definitely go to a higher level. In addition to caring about money, Wang Dalun is more concerned about whether he can win the best actor this time, and fame and fortune are of course the most satisfying.

The number of four screenings a day, the attendance rate is basically more than 80%. The next morning, everyone sat happily around the balcony of the hotel restaurant for breakfast, and the weather was sunny and sunny, and the blue waters of the Loire River were overlooked.

Jacob went to the front desk of the hotel and picked up a stack of newspapers, mostly in English and some in French. It's a pity that Wang Dalun can only say that he can't read French, unlike Jacob, who is proficient in English and French. He could only pick some English to read, and with Jacob's translation, many film critics in the newspaper spoke highly of "Seafood", which was released yesterday.

Especially in a film review in "Le Figaro", when Jacob read it, Zhu Wen's excitement was almost uncontrollable, he was only a supporting role in Cannes, but he didn't expect to come here and become the protagonist, and he was also the male lead.

That is, he did not know French, or he would have snatched the newspaper from Jacob's hand. This is Le Figaro, whose status in France is equivalent to that of the New York Times in the United States or the People's Daily in China, the mainstream No. 1 media, and its influence is not only in France, but even throughout Europe.

Zhu Wen also asked Jacob to re-translate it, and he took out his notebook and wrote it down:

“…… This is not the kind of film that anyone expects - it exceeds our expectations - but it is especially not the film that the new youth are looking forward to, it does not offer lingering and painful emotional conflicts, magnificent spiritual battles, and does not abolish moral positions and class attributes, as a thirteen non-reliance on the above, "Seafood" resolutely returns to the body, revolves around the motives and fatalities of the body, and uses the cold humor narrative technique that the director may have himself to unearth our mediocre but lovely vitality.

After noticing the poet who preemptively committed suicide, the sleepwalking nocturnal, the complaining little prostitute, no one will deny that the director of the film actually landed in the middle of life long ago, he joked by chance, often indifferently and always respected details.

After considering the police's tireless efforts to keep him from having sex by chance, and considering Xiaomei's insistence on dying or living after eating seafood, I conclude that they are all trying to live their lives on their own terms, which is as poetic as the desolate beaches of northern China in the winter depicted in the film. ”

After the movie was screened, for the next few days, except for Jacob and some communication affairs, the three of them were in a state of complete idleness. Zhu Wen really wanted to pick some films of interest to watch, but he couldn't even understand English subtitles, although the concubine's English level was better than him, but he stumbled, and the speed of watching couldn't keep up at all. At first, Wang Dalun acted as an interpreter and accompanied them to watch two shows, but they almost fell asleep, so they resolutely refused to suffer this crime.

Maybe Zhu Wen felt that watching a movie with a translator next to him not only affected others, but also made it unpleasant for him to watch, so he didn't force it anymore. In fact, it's not easy to be an underground director, movies can't be screened in China, you can only go to the international market, it's necessary to learn English well, you didn't see Lao Jia turned out to be half-hanging, and now he speaks English like a thief, and even French can come two sentences.