On the morning of June 1, many people stayed in front of their computers early, waiting for the release of "Buried Alive" at 9:18.

Zhao Qian is one of the many waiters, she is a graduate of the composition department of Songjiang Conservatory of Music in the 13th class, and now works as an anchor in Songjiang Radio's midnight emotional column "Songjiang Sleepless Night".

She loves music, and she is also a long-time movie fan, going to the cinema to watch a few movies almost every month.

Because her column needs to answer calls from listeners, each issue is a live broadcast, which has changed her work and rest habits, she basically sleeps until 11 o'clock every morning, but today, she set an alarm at 8:30 in the morning, in order to watch the movie "Buried Alive" for the first time.

After getting up and washing, Zhao Qian soaked half a bowl of cereal, then sat down in front of the computer, and used a strangely shaped stainless steel spoon to put milk and cereal into her mouth, while browsing the latest anecdotes, waiting for 9:18 to arrive.

Approaching 9:18, Zhao Qian closed other webpages and began to refresh the playback page of "Buried Alive" over and over again.

Finally, the movie begins.

First of all, the cartoon title, in the night sky, a silver moon slowly moved to the middle of the screen, at the same time, the sound of soothing music sounded, "pop", a fish floated down, rippled in circles, it turned out that the moon in the picture was just a reflection in the water, the camera moved up quickly along the fishing line, through the clouds, saw a boy sitting on the moon fishing, the music gradually became magnificent, the camera moved to the right, through the clouds, the huge letters "DREAMWORKS" loomed behind the clouds, and finally, After passing through a large cloud that obscured the screen, against the background of the quiet night sky, the English name of the studio - "DreamWorks-Studios" appeared on the screen, and then below the English name, a line of smaller Chinese names appeared - "DreamWorks Film Studio".

Then, the picture slowly faded out, the screen was pitch black, there was no sound, only faded in turn, showing white English subtitles that faded out after a few seconds, and Zhao Qian, who had good English, of course recognized that these subtitles were screenwriters, directors, cinematographers, and starring, to Zhao Qian's surprise, these main cast and crew members all have the same name - "Kevin-Lee".

She is not a movie idiot, it makes sense that the choreographer and leading actor should be played by one person, but let the leading actor go to photography, I'm afraid that this blown movie is just an experimental niche movie shot from a fixed perspective in the whole movie, and she can't help but be a little disappointed.

In the middle of the screen, after the Chinese and English movie name "Buried Alive" was displayed, there was a silent black screen for more than ten seconds, and then a wheezing sound was gradually heard, followed by a few coughing sounds, and then the wheezing sound became heavy and rapid, and at the same time, there was a sound of Suosuo.

After a while, I only heard the sound of "bell", this sound should be the sound of the metal lighter cover being lifted, and sure enough, Zhao Qian heard the sound of the spark stone rubbing the ratchet when the lighter was ignited, and in the screen, with several flashes of firelight, half of the face that was close at hand flashed.

After a few times, the lighter finally ignited, and in the flickering and dark picture, the camera slowly receded, revealing a man's stubble face, which was the face of an oriental. When Zhao Qian saw this, she finally put her mind at ease, as long as it was not a fixed lens, it didn't matter if it was the same name as the photography and the starring role, or it was a gimmick at all.

The camera continued to retreat, and Zhao Qian saw that the man's mouth was tied with strips of cloth, and he was holding a kerosene lighter lit on fire in his hand, and his hands were tied together by ropes. He seemed to be locked in a long and narrow box, and at this moment he seemed to realize that his situation was not good, and began to struggle, letting out a desperate roar.

The camera continues to recede, and then the man's body and legs that are constantly writhing because of the struggle appear in the frame, the camera continues to retreat, and at the same time begins to slowly change the perspective, and finally the soles of the man's feet are also captured into the frame, and then the camera moves back around his body from the man's right side, rotating and moving for most of the circle, from the top of the man's head to his left rear, at this moment, the camera begins to slow down and shoot at the man's face.

The magic is that judging from the distance between the lens and the man in the picture, it clearly feels that the lens is shooting outside the box, but when the lens rotates, what you see is the complete inner wall of the box, and there is no reserved shooting window at all. Zhao Qian suspects that this box may have been simulated using 3D animation.

The camera has slowly moved from the top left of the man to the top of the man, and the shot is taken from the top of the man's head. At this moment, the man struggled to remove the strip of cloth from his mouth with his bound hands, and then let out a desperate cry: "Hey! ——Hey——!”

From the beginning of the opening credit, which is almost entirely in English subtitles, Zhao Qian suspected that this was an English film, and now it has confirmed her guess that this is an English film with English pronunciation and Chinese and English subtitles.

The camera continues to move from the top of the man's head to the man's right, always keeping it on the man's face, and finally the camera stops and shoots the man's side face from the man's right side, and the left and top walls are filmed into the frame, and the man keeps shouting for help.

“Help！”

“Help!”

He turned sideways and pushed the plank on the top of the box with his arms and head, but with all the force he sucked on, the top of the box did not move. Judging from the real touch in the picture, Zhao Qian overturned the suspicion that the wooden box was made using 3D animation.

After the man relented, the camera moved again, and he tried to burn the rope on his wrist with a lighter, but he got burned, and he screamed in pain and gave up the stupid idea. Then, the man holds a lighter to observe the environment inside the box, the camera follows the man's perspective, the man finds a nail that shows his head because of the crooked nail, so he puts the lighter next to him, and then grinds the rope on the crooked nail.

The man who finally broke free from the rope said a series of "okey" to cheer himself up.

He tried again to push the plank above his head and use his knee to push it to no avail, at this time, he reached for the lighter placed beside him, because the shell of the lighter had been burned hot, and as a result, he was burned, and threw the lighter away, and the coffin fell into darkness, and only his vague shadow could be seen. He lay in the coffin panting, coughing from time to time, and after a dozen seconds, his breathing gradually calmed down.

At this time, a vibrating sound of a phone call came, and the picture brightened due to the cold light of the mobile phone screen. The man subconsciously sat up, only to hit the plank above his head.

The man began to look for the mobile phone, and found that the mobile phone was at the end of the box, so he reached the mobile phone with his foot, and the camera followed towards the rear of the box, and finally the man dialed the mobile phone with his foot to a place where he could reach, but because he had not answered for a long time, the call had automatically hung up.

After the man got the phone, he looked left and right, this was not his phone, and the screen was actually in Arabic, the status bar at the top of the phone screen showed that the phone was about half of the battery left, the time was 6:12 pm, after a period of fumbling, he finally succeeded in changing the language to English. But when he called up the missed call, he found that it was an unknown number, and the address book of the mobile phone was empty, and there was not even a single contact.

"What's the phone number?" His voice had a thick American accent, and he repeatedly muttered to himself, trying to remember an important number, but he could only remember the first three digits, he cursed in frustration, put his phone and lighter aside, and reached for the wallet in his pocket, but there was nothing in the wallet.

Then, he pulled out a small stainless steel flask, a small medicine bottle, and a small pile of nut shells that had been in his pocket after eating and had not had time to throw them into the trash.

The man didn't find the phone number, he thought for a while, picked up the phone again, dialed 001-911, the phone was quickly connected, and after a short wait, a woman's voice came from the earpiece: "Hello, this is the 911 police station."

The man shouted emotionally: "Hello, I'm buried, come and save me, I'm almost out of breath." ”

"What?"

"I'm buried in a coffin, come and save me, send someone to find me."

"Don't get excited, tell me slowly, what's your name?"

"Kevin Lee." The man replied immediately.

The ensuing call angered Kevin Lee, who identified himself as a U.S. citizen, a truck driver from the American company CRT on mission to Iraq, and that he was in dire need of help. But the woman at the 911 police station went around with him and asked stupid questions like whether he had climbed into the coffin by himself, and in the end, Kevin Lee didn't listen to the other party's big nonsense, and hung up the phone in disappointment.

Then, Kevin Lee called his home again, but no one was home, and he left a message asking his wife to help him call the relevant department for help.

Zhao Qian couldn't help but feel anxious for this man named Kevin Lee, he kept saying "out of breath", and lit a lighter to consume little oxygen, and gasped for breath excitedly, isn't this the rhythm of death?

Kevin Lee also seems to be aware of the oxygen problem, he finally turns off the lighter, forcing himself to calm down, and the picture is once again plunged into darkness, and the blurred picture in the darkness is moving, which is why the movie camera is moving.

After a long time, Kevin Lee unscrewed the stainless steel flask, took a sip of wine, pressed the phone screen again, and dialed 001-411, which is the number of the American number checker. He looked up the FBI's number, and the call was eventually routed to the FBI in Chicago.

After the phone was connected, there was another programmed conversation, and when the agent asked Kevin Lee about his ID card number, Kevin Lee refused to give his ID card number.

Zhao Qian speculated that Kevin Lee was worried about his Chinese-American status and worried that he would be treated unequally.

Then, the phone was interrupted due to a poor signal, much to Kevin Lee's annoyance.

At this time, Zhao Qian had already figured out the general context of the story. The man, Kevin Lee, was an expatriate employee of CRT who was working in Iraq when he was attacked and buried somewhere in the desert in a coffin.

Kevin Lee held his phone in the coffin to find a signal, and then called the CRT company, but after a lengthy questioning, the call was finally forwarded to the head of the human resources department, who was not in front of the phone, and when Kevin Lee described his experience through a voice message, the phone was interrupted again because of a bad signal. Kevin Lee finally couldn't hold back his despair and fear, and let out a burst of anger in the coffin.

After a long time, Kevin Lee, who gradually subsided, received a call from an unknown number from a kidnapper, who demanded that he pay a ransom of $5 million by 9 p.m. or wait for death.

After calming down, Kevin Lee went online on his mobile phone and found the phone number of the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, and after a programmed routine questioning at the front desk of the embassy, he transferred the call to another staff member, who learned about the situation from the beginning and asked Kevin Lee to give him the ID card number, otherwise he could not be determined that he was a U.S. citizen and could not provide him with any help.

Kevin Lee had no choice but to report his ID card number, and then after verifying his identity, the staff member warned him not to stab the media about his abduction, otherwise things would get complicated and it would definitely affect the rescue plan, and then he asked Kevin Lee to remember a number, and then said: "The relationship between the Chinese Empire and Iraq is good, you are a Chinese American, if the Chinese government is willing to come forward to negotiate with the terrorists, you will most likely be released directly, do you need me to transfer it for you?" ”

The call was quickly forwarded to the Imperial Chinese Embassy in Iraq, and after Kevin Lee described his ordeal in Chinese, the embassy staff said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Kevin Lee, because your nationality is American, so we can't do anything about it." ”

After hanging up, the kidnapper called again, told him that there was a small bag in the coffin, and asked him to record a video of what was on a piece of paper in the bag, and then use his own Webook account to post it online, and if he did, the ransom could be reduced from 5 million to 1 million.

Kevin Lee managed to orient his body in the coffin, and then managed to get the small cloth bag, which contained a glow stick, a piece of paper, and an oval stainless steel cigar tong.

After looking at the paper, Kevin Lee crumpled it up and threw it aside, he must not meet the kidnapper's request, otherwise he may not be rescued.

Kevin Lee called the number left for him by the staff of the United States Embassy in Iraq, and the call was quickly connected, and he learned that it was the number of the head of the Iraqi hostage rescue team.

At this time, the leader of the rescue team already knew about Kevin Lee's kidnapping and claimed to be organizing a rescue, which made Kevin Lee finally see a glimmer of hope. When talking to the head of the rescue team, he mentioned that the kidnappers asked him to record a video, and the person in charge repeatedly stressed that he could not record it, otherwise it would complicate the matter and affect the rescue operation.

After the call ended, the kidnapper's phone called again, asking him why he didn't record the video, and Kevin Lee scolded the other party on the phone. But the phone soon came to the phone with the cries for help from his female colleague, Pamela Ruti, who said that if he did not record the video and post it online within five minutes, he would kill his female colleague.

So Kevin Lee had to compromise, and before recording the video, he called his mother, who lives in a nursing home, and asked her why she immigrated to the United States in the first place. But his mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, doesn't even remember that she has a son, and after a few words with his mother, Kevin Lee hung up the phone and prepared to record a video as the kidnappers requested.

Before recording the video, he opened the vial and took a few pills.

When recording the video, the light stick was not lit enough, so he had to light the lighter again, and then he accidentally knocked over the small flask without a lid, which caused a fire, Kevin Lee finally used sand to extinguish the fire, and the already thin oxygen in the coffin was consumed a lot.

Kevin Lee didn't dare to delay, he quickly picked up his phone, stopped the recording, and posted the video online.

After a long time, the kidnappers called again, and after connecting, they only heard Pamela Ruti's voice on the phone: "My name is Pamela Ruti, because I failed to meet the kidnapper's request, woo woo, please don't..."

"You're running out of time, you'd better meet our requirements, otherwise." The kidnappers hung up.

Then, the head of the rescue team called again and asked why Kevin Lee had posted the video.

Kevin Lee said: "You don't care if we live or die, just now my colleague Pamela Ruti was killed by them. ”

During the call, there was the sound of an airplane skimming at a low altitude outside, followed by an explosion, the impact of the explosion crushed the top cover of the coffin, and the sand leaked into the coffin frantically.

After the call with the head of the rescue team, the HR head of CRT called in, and after a bit of nonsense, the HR head cut to the point, and he asked to turn on the tape recorder and record the rest of the conversation.

"I'm Aaron Davenport, Head of HR at CRT, dated June 1, 2016......" The HR Director called was to terminate his employment contract with Kevin Lee.

Kevin Lee, who was completely desperate, turned on the camera on his phone, turned to video mode, and recorded a will for himself. Then quietly wait for death. But at this time, the kidnappers called again, and in the end, Kevin Lee was worried that the kidnappers would hurt his family, so he had to follow the kidnappers' request, pick up the oval cigar cutter and cut off his fingers, and then posted the video of the cut fingers on the Internet.

Kevin Lee was worried about the safety of his wife and son, so he called home again, and this time he finally got through, and when he was talking to his wife, the call from the head of the rescue team came in again, and this time he brought Kevin Lee good news, they captured a rebel and learned that an American was buried alive, so they promised to get Kevin Lee out soon.

However, in the end, when the coffin was opened, the coffin contained the body of the survivor in the mouth of the previous rescue team leader - Mark White.

At the end of the movie, Kevin Lee was not rescued in the end.

When Zhao Qian saw Kevin Lee talking to his wife, she couldn't help but shed tears.

But what shocked Zhao Qian was the creativity of this movie, in addition, she vaguely felt that this movie seemed to use a one-shot shooting technique, and it seemed that there was no soundtrack for the whole movie.

However, because when she watched it just now, her attention was focused on the storyline, so she was not sure.

So, Zhao Qian looked at it again from the beginning.

There are many people like her, who also choose to watch it all over again.

At this moment, Kevin Li and his parents are sitting on the sofa in the living room, just watching the final end credits.

Ye Meiyue wiped her tears and asked, "Son, is this really what you filmed?" ”

"yes, can't you trust your son?"

"It's because you're my son that I can't believe it." As she spoke, Ye Meiyue burst into tears and smiled, she was proud of her son.

Li Zanshan next to him seemed much calmer on the surface, he just said lightly: "Good job." ”