102. Thoughts on watching the film in advance
The drama "Breaking the Sky" has been filming, because a large number of special effects will be added in the later stage, so it will definitely not be released this year, and it is estimated that it will not be released until next summer vacation at the earliest.
After Feng Ranran finished filming, she suddenly found that she didn't seem to have anything to do. There has been no news about the release of "Cold Silence", and it is said that the later stage was cooperated with an international team, and it is understandable that Feng Ranran worked slowly.
The old foreign man, Smith, called Feng Ranran once, he said that the first cut of the film came out, and asked Ran Ran if he wanted to watch it.
Feng Ranran hesitated for a moment - she asked her agent about her recent itinerary, determined the time, and then flew abroad.
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When he saw Smith, he was still very kind, and he hugged Feng Ranran with a smile.
Feng Ranran looked curiously, this seemed to be a studio, he took Feng Ranran and approached a small black room, and then he motioned for her to sit down.
The room was pitch black - Feng Ranran's nervous palms were sweating. She was particularly curious about what the finished film would look like, although it was not yet fully done in the post-production, but since Smith invited her to watch it, it must have been time to watch it.
All of a sudden, the screen lit up.
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It begins with a deserted city. The familiar cities were empty, moss grew on the collapsed Statue of Liberty, rain hit the Great Wall, and birds circled over the hills as far as Europe...... Those well-known buildings were all turned into ruins - Feng Ranran's nervous whole person was trembling, and the beginning of this picture gave her a great sense of shock.
How shocking can a desolate Earth be before your eyes?
When Feng Ranran was shooting, she didn't know that she could actually shoot this setting. In the first three minutes of the shot, she seems to be transformed into a bird soaring in the air, and she sees the world from the perspective of a bird.
The collapsed building gives an indescribable sense of dilapidation. The whole picture is covered with a layer of fog-like texture, and unlike the kind of movies with the theme of the apocalypse, it does not show you the whole process of these buildings, these cities falling into ruin. They seem to be born like this - they have no life and no soul.
Feng Ranran watched quietly, and the bird finally landed in a wilderness.
It bowed its head to draw water from the oasis.
There was silence all around.
Then suddenly a pair of eyes appeared in the picture. The background sound is the low wheezing sound of a girl.
She opened her eyes.
Feng Ranran had never felt that her eyes could be so good-looking, under the bright sunlight, the girl's eyes were pale brown color, like glass--reflecting the dazzling sunlight, her low panting gradually subsided, and then she struggled to get up from the wilderness.
Empty.
There wasn't even a single plant in the gravel.
The girl got up, the sun was dazzling, her gaze was hollow—she looked around, her eyes revealing a mixture of curiosity and uneasiness. The camera closes up on her toes—the girl's feet are small and delicate, and she shrinks her thumb uneasily.
The sun shone on her face, her eyes couldn't be opened—and she silently began to walk forward.
Feng Ranran looked at himself in the camera with no vitality at all. As she walked, there was a strange feeling in her steps, her whole body did not seem to be walking, but dazed, being tended forward by some force, she was just dragging her body.
The sand in the middle cut her feet, and the blood came out in an instant, and this shot did not make any cuts, in the empty field, the girl's bare feet were cut by stones, and the blood fell into the sand drop by drop. Her lips were chapped - her features were completely blank.
Her breathing sounded like a heavy drum.
It's not a very long part, it probably lasts less than five minutes - but from day to night, everyone can tell that she has been gone for a long, long time. Originally, this picture should have been boring and boring, walking in the sand and rocks all the time, but Feng Ranran looked at himself in the camera.
She didn't know if the audience found it boring, but she was fascinated by it. The camera is cleverly edited - and her entire mental state is changing at an almost visible rate. From numbness to complete numbness - only one more thoroughness, but it's completely different.
There is no water. There was no food. Lonely walking.
The scenery is beautiful, beautiful like a painting, and every frame can be captured as a screensaver.
When it rained, the rain drenched her. She found an oasis.
Her gesture of jumping into the sinkhole was like salvation.
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Catching a gerbil - using a mirror found in the oasis to reflect the light and make a fire - the plot seems to turn into a wilderness survival, and the girl's eyes are full of life.
She's trying to find the rest of humanity on Earth. She would write the sand at night, and she would ask herself with a blackened branch.
Can she find another human?
She is always accompanied only by the sun, the wind, the rain, and the animals. She survived alone and stubbornly.
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In fact, Feng Ranran himself was not very optimistic about this movie at first. There's nothing wrong with the film being important to her, but she feels that the film is too flat and not commercial at all. It's not enough to rely on the scenery and her performance alone. What the audience needs is dramatic conflict, something that can attract everyone's attention, not this kind of work that relies on the scenery and her solo performance to support most of the work.
She actually doesn't understand why anyone would be willing to invest in such a film, because it is actually difficult to recover the investment cost of such a film. Moreover, "Cold Silence" is not a low-budget film with a small and broad budget.
But it has to be said that the editing and music give the film a lot of soul. The fragmented images are slowly strung together, and the rhythm of the whole film is not slow at all. On the contrary, the film is brightly paced.
The girl found a city - a city that had been abandoned.
She sees the city as salvation, and she longs to find even one person in the abandoned city. But it didn't. Ruins, abandoned garbage, useless qiē, she sat in the high rubble, she was alone, monopolizing the loneliness of the world.
Birds gently land on the towers of the city.
In her hands, there were empty cans, broken pieces of glass, these artificially created things—even after humanity had disappeared, even after the city had been reduced to ruins, it still stubbornly existed.
The girl cowered there, she wanted to cry, but she couldn't. The tears seemed to have evaporated, and she sat there quietly, not saying a word.
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Feng Ranran's favorite part of this movie is that his psychological journey is vividly shown in the movie. There will never be another such opportunity - the creation of the film itself is like a miracle.
This movie is actually not just a simple wilderness girl's trek, there are many interesting little bridges dotted in it. She'd picked up puppies on the road, and she'd figured out how to find tools to make a living in an abandoned city, and she wanted to try to find a way to piece together a vehicle that would allow her to travel far.
This paragraph is very interesting. There are some things in modern industry that can survive for a long, long time – longer than ours. When this young girl was looking for industrial products left by humans in the ruins, she also made a lot of jokes.
This paragraph is very smart, which makes the whole movie jump at once.
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Feng Ranran felt that this movie was very lonely when she was filming, but when she sat here and watched it, she felt that it was not like this.
"She's lonely, but the movie isn't lonely."
She feels that it reflects a corner of everyone's heart - that each of us has moments of loneliness. This kind of moment when you can't talk to anyone, you can only be trapped in the world inside yourself, it's the same as the heroine of the movie.
She's working hard, she's serious about getting out of this loneliness.
It's fun, not as dull as you might think. The girl, who lost her vitality at the beginning, had a sense of freedom along the way. In a deserted world, she alone became the master of the whole world.
Under the stars, she shouted to the world: "Why am I alone, why is no one talking to me?" ”
This picture is unexpectedly beautiful and very textured.
She also worked hard to find a way to keep herself alive, to find food, to learn to plant, to learn to make clothes, and she was left to grab the legacy of human civilization, and she almost tried every way to survive.
This section is fast-paced, and even Feng Ranran is curious about how the heroine will survive in this world. At first she lived like a wolf, but over time, she survived well, except that no one spoke to her.
She would talk to herself—recalling the past, which seemed to be blurred in her memory. She didn't know why she was in the wilderness, in this uninhabited earth, but since she couldn't go back, she could only try to live.
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The scene of the cliff at the end made Feng Ran teary-eyed.
She didn't know why she was crying, but in fact, this movie is not the kind of doomsday flow that the whole world falls apart in an instant. The beginning of this movie is already the end of the world.
If a person wakes up and faces the end of the world, how to survive is a difficult question. What this movie tells everyone is such a story.
Feng Ranran sighed, she hesitated, but still smiled.
"I still think there may not be a lot of people watching this movie."
Smith showed great optimism as he hugged her.
"Don't say that, I think everybody will like it. If you watch too many commercial movies, you should always need a little other flavoring. Besides, I think you've done a great job, and the others shouldn't be thought about. I think we worked together to make a great movie. ”
Feng Ranran took a deep breath, and she laughed.
She said thank you.
Of course, she was apprehensive in her heart - maybe other movies and other works felt a lot more at ease because Pei Yifei shared them with her. But even if the finished movie is much, much better than she imagined, she still has a hesitant attitude.
I still feel that this is a future that I don't know if it's good or bad.