Thursday, October 20th, was an uneventful Thursday, the North American film market in the fall season was already sluggish, and "Doom", which premiered this week, really lacked gimmicks to spark more discussion. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoBut in New York, the world's number one city, Greenwich Village in the lower / downtown area is an all-night party.

This hippie precinct is arguably one of the Big Apple's most distinctive, and its landmark cinema is also a popular destination for nearby residents – watch an old black-and-white movie in an art theater, listen to a neighborhood song in a jazz bar, and party with artists in the streets...... A night like this can always be intoxicating. Tonight, it seems, is no exception.

Two landmark cinemas just four blocks away have joined forces to present one of the most noisy, bustling and exciting nights since the beginning of autumn, with all the screening rooms in the two theaters continuing to rotate non-stop from 8 p.m., and the long queue at the door has never stopped, even at 2, 4 and 6 a.m.

After the audience of the previous show left the cinema, they stayed one after another, and joined the surrounding discussion with excited faces, and then waited for the next audience to end, gathering together to continue the discussion.

Matt is one of them, he knows he has to go to work this morning, but he doesn't care, and in a trance it feels like he's back to the crazy life of his college days. Matt, like everyone else, stood at the door, grabbed a bottle of beer, and expressed his own remarks and opinions eloquently, from the "Fruit Hard Candy" discussion to Lance's crime trilogy, to the works of Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese, to Stanley Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, and finally back to "Fruit Hard Candy", the collision of ideas made the spirit always in a high degree of excitement, and it was impossible to stop.

When the mood reached the high point, a group of people flocked to another old movie theater next block to watch the midnight show of "Sin City", after the movie ended, once again bustling and talking back to the door of the landmark theater, and the new friends who had just finished watching the movie, continued to foam at the mouth of every detail of "Hard Candy", from lines to plot, from costumes to room decoration, from characters to core...... Impassionedly, dancing, and arguing with red faces.

It wasn't until the morning sun slowly rose on the edge of the sky, when the first rays of sunlight tore through the black night, that people noticed the passage of time.

Matt reluctantly left the landmark theater and walked towards Wall Street, turning back three times, and then saw the hippies still discussing tirelessly, as if they were trying to change the world with their words, a burning enthusiasm that was no less than that of the dawn of the rising sun. Matt loved moments like this, not just the sleepless nights of arguing, but also the glowing orange sunrise at the junction of the sea and the sky, which made him feel like he was alive like never before.

And the bond of all this is that amazing man named Lancelot Strello.

Matt knew he was back at work, but the hot talk about "hard fruit candy" had just begun.

As it turned out, Greenwich Village's two landmark cinemas were constantly crowded with people leaving and arriving, and all the screens were running non-stop to satisfy people's curiosity and anticipation. Just on Manhattan Island, in New York City, just a few blocks on the East Coast of the United States, "hard fruit candy" is releasing endless energy, quietly beginning to affect the entire North American continent, and even the whole world.

"Just give me a lever and a fulcrum, and I can pry the whole planet."

The screening of "Hard Fruit Candy" is over, but in fact, the frenzy of reflection created by this film has only just begun. Since the film was only released in two art theaters, even critics could not enjoy the work in the first place, but those avid film lovers were able to get ahead and appreciate the work first.

Therefore, after the screening, the first to get feedback is not the media, but the Internet!

"The ten-minute long shot is almost exploding! That damn bastard of Lancelot is so handsome! ”

"My hands are still shaking until now, because of fear, but also because of excitement!"

"It's hard to imagine that this bastard Lance has once again delivered another amazing work!"

"Ten times more wonderful than 'Sin City' and ten times more profound than 'Murder with a knife'! A must-see this fall! ”

"This work will definitely make those macho men despair, haha!"

"Cult! A true cult! Strello vividly illustrates what a cult movie is: hateful, yet lovely! ”

"It's going to be a work that will be spurned by the mainstream market! But this is also a work that can go down in history! ”

"After watching a movie, you wish you had never been to the cinema."

"Extreme discomfort, strong disgust, deep hatred. That's right, that's the right way to watch 'Fruit Hard Candy'. ”

"Don't watch! Definitely don't watch it! It's a nightmare, and I suspect I'll never wake up! ”

"It's so fucking/perverted! Please don't go to the cinema or you won't be able to sleep well for the next month. ”

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The forums of the major portals on the Internet have exploded, and at the bottom of the official page of IMDB, more than 360 comments have popped up in just one night; And Rotten Tomatoes has more than 190 reviews. But that's just the tip of the iceberg, with more than 700 posts on the Yahoo community, an incredible 20,000 replies, and more than 100,000 hits, all within 12 hours, easily overwhelming the "good night, good luck" buzz that had been around two weeks earlier.

What's even more interesting is that among these comments, even the praise comments are mixed with a lot of foul language, and between the words are even more blunt to say that the work is "not suitable for men", and more than half of the comments emphasize at the end that "this work is strongly not recommended"; But between the lines, you can feel the storm of thoughts caused by this work in their brains, and the excitement and excitement come to their faces through the computer screen, which is almost unbearable.

However, the real main force of the comments is only a small group of people, and everyone else is just joining in the fun. It can be seen that since "Fruit Hard Candy" is only a movie in two theaters, the audience who has enjoyed the work is really limited, and the audience who can participate in the topic is not enough; But this topic has attracted the attention of countless people on the Internet, especially the pain mixed with excitement, which is even more curious.

Unlike "Good Night, Good Luck", so far it has been all discussed by netizens, and there has been little movement from the mainstream media and professional film critics. The day after the screening, almost all the major media reported the news of the "formal reconciliation" between Lance and George, announcing that the plagiarism door had come to an end, and it was overwhelmingly related news.

It stands to reason that the follow-up reports will continue to focus on George and Lance, and bring the focus back to "good night, good luck", which is the correct way to deal with public relations; But surprisingly, it seems that all the news media are standing still, quietly waiting for the screening of "Fruit Hard Candy" to continue to push.

It's no exaggeration to say that the moviegoing frenzy sparked by the two landmark theaters has spread throughout New York, and news outlets across North America have also gotten the news, and branches in New York have sent reporters to see the film first, but they are doomed to be disappointed - because they can't get tickets!

If this is the Sundance Film Festival, then the media and professional film critics have reserved tickets, and they can enter directly with an invitation card or press card, without worrying about not having tickets; But this is New York, and "Hard Candy" is being screened exactly as a niche experimental film, in other words, the only way to see the work is to buy a ticket to get in, and a $7 ticket is very cheap, but reporters and critics really feel what it means to be hard to get a ticket.

The long queues at the entrances of the two theaters have not decreased since 8 o'clock last night, and with the uproar on the Internet, many movie lovers living in New York have put "fruit hard candy" on their schedules, and they have a head start over other cities.

As a result, there was a rare grand scene at the entrance of the landmark theater: the film critics and reporters who usually have their eyes above the top actually appeared in the queue.

Chaos Pictures doesn't care, because experimental films don't rely on critics and reporters to eat, they are often screened after three weeks, after the audience has spread word of mouth, and then arrange the expansion depending on the situation, the feedback of film critics and reporters is important, but more often than not, they don't pay much attention to these experimental films. So, Chaos Pictures was completely on its tracks, but critics and journalists couldn't help but care, and it was clear that "Hard Candy" was the hottest movie of the weekend — even if it was just an experimental art film.

The Landmark Cinema has filled all its screening rooms, but demand is still outstripping supply. By less than 12 p.m. on Friday, the tickets for the whole day were sold out, so they had no choice but to start selling tickets for the weekend, but this only lasted until 11 p.m. on Friday night, and soon all the tickets for the two days of the weekend were also sold out. This also means that if you want to watch the movie, you will have to wait until Monday.

The good news is that Monday is only two days away; The bad news is that the number of venues for "Fruit Hard Candy" next week is just seven. (To be continued.) )