Before you know it, the queue for tickets there has been stretched for a hundred meters. People endured the cold wind and kept complaining about the organizers, why they opened more theaters, and why there were so few films.

The organizers didn't expect this to be the case, although "Grand Central Station" unexpectedly received so many nominations, but as a foreign language film, it has never received much attention. Now it seems that praise is not an isolated phenomenon, classic movies will resonate, they miscalculated. The organizing committee hurriedly discussed and urgently vacated a few halls to screen "Central Station", which finally alleviated the embarrassment of the 100-meter-long team.

This 100-meter-long queue is the best publicity, with 10,000 beautiful posters on top.

"Grand Central Station" became completely famous after this hit.

The Sundance Film Festival has an audience award.

The "Audience Feature Film Award" and the "Audience Documentary Award" are the only two awards in the film festival that can be determined by the audience. The current Sundance Audience Award is based on 1,000 viewers and 80 critics who watch at least five of the 26 shortlisted films, and then rate the movies they watch, with a score of 10 out of 1 and a score of 1 for worst.

The number of screenings is also directly related to the attribution of this award.

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The next day, almost all the media in Hollywood that followed the Sundance Film Festival reported on Grand Central Terminal.

"This is the biggest surprise of this year's Sundance Film Festival, an independent film from across the far Pacific. Grand Central Station is a heartwarming and moving sketch, a theme about the journey of finding origins and self-discovery. With the style of neorealism, it conveys the compassion presented in the film with a sentimental atmosphere and delicate brushstrokes. In an environment where social development inevitably brings drawbacks, the whole country is constantly abandoning and creating new ones. In the process of searching, the distance between people is shortened, and the separation between hearts and hearts gradually dissolves. ”

-- Will Roger, a special film critic for the Los Angeles Times, was the first to comment on the film. This is the largest newspaper in the United States after the New York Times and the Washington Post.

They used photos of the long 100-meter-long queue to buy tickets in the cold wind as a front-page illustration for entertainment. This picture simply stunned the Americans, "What is this, "Titanic", even "Titanic" has not been in line for 100 meters. ”

After carefully reading the report, I realized that the organizing committee actually arranged such a five-nominated film to only one screening hall, and the audience rushed to grab tickets, and they were afraid that the end of the film festival would not be seen. The Sundance Film Festival does not have fans all over the United States, especially since it has been the "enemy of Hollywood" for many years, and this situation is naturally indispensable for cynicism.

These reports also add to the embarrassment of the Sundance Institute.

"We live in an age where material things are concentrated, but what is lacking is so deadly, that human beings have been instigated to be simple-minded admirers, who know the beauty of luxury, but who have learned to laugh and stiffen. What is most satirized by the city is love and trust, compassion and tolerance. Sometimes cinema is the teacher of humanity, it uses detailed shots, gentle light, silent expressions, tears and laughter to teach humans to respect something, like "Grand Central Station". ”

-- The headline of the entertainment section of the Hollywood Reporter newspaper was also dedicated to this year's Sundance Film Festival. And the most commented is not the American movie "Prison in Prison", but this Chinese movie.

"This surprise from the East, with a full sunshine show, touched countless Sundance audiences yesterday. The old woman Ah Duo and the child are two lines every day, divided and combined, the child tries to impress and forget with innocence, and the old man is used to using vicissitudes to remain firm. They are in the dark, but the future is so bright. I don't know if the director of this movie has a political implication in it, just based on this story, it moved me. ”

"Ah Duo left before dawn, and they have all completed their spiritual journey, learning to miss, learning to remember, learning how to love and believe."

-- A well-known film critic on the IMDB website, who made no secret of his liking, personally asked the institute for the information of the film registration information, made a simple information registration for the film on the website, and scored the first professional score, 9 points.

Later, the audience who heard the wind also continued to score.

After the first day of screenings, there were already hundreds of viewers on IMDB who had given ratings after watching the film, and the score was still in the 8.8 range.

"In terms of the style of the film, this film can be said to be a sketch-style road movie, which depicts the process of an old man and a young man looking for relatives and home. In the tedious 'search' movie, "Grand Central Station" with its unique technique makes people breed a lot of strange sourness, which is full of appeal. The soundtrack of the film is beautiful, and the fit cannot be said to be flawless, and it can be regarded as a classic. It's hard to believe that such a mature movie comes from a 20-year-old rookie director.

-- USA Today also gave a media score of 4.5 out of 5.

Comments on the film have gradually shifted behind the scenes.

From the information of Happy Registration, people found that he was just a young man who had just turned 20 years old, and they were all surprised and admired.

The most "fierce" rhetoric is the New York Times:

"It's one of the best movies in the world, and it's almost destined to go to the awards."

"What's extraordinary about Grand Central Station is that it's a film that talks to your brain when it touches your heart.

Because most of the story scenes of this film are on the road, it is called a 'road movie'. Just like the name of the movie, 'Central Station', is just a place where the heroes and heroines get acquainted, and the crowds meet due to a chance encounter, and the future, unknown, long road, and story are extended like this...... That 'station' is always behind us and we can't turn back. ”

"There are touches everywhere, but it doesn't make people feel like the director is deliberately sensational."

"In the main theme of compassion in the film, the joys and sorrows of life, joy and pain are intertwined and transmitted to the audience, and then the audience becomes the people in the play, and when they experience their search, loss, and joys and sorrows, they also complete a dialogue with themselves."

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"'One of the best movies in the world,' oh my God, my eyes must be broken."

Early in the morning, Roque's enemy began to babble and shout again.

A large pile of newspapers were piled on the coffee table, and Bai Xiaoya was also working hard to help Zhang Zhengwu translate, and she didn't finish reading a newspaper for a long time, but she enjoyed it with relish and enjoyment.

The Sundance Film Festival is still going on, but the "Audience Feature Film Award" has already been selected first.

With the average rating of 8.8 points in "Central Station", the number of people who participated in the voting also reached 962, which was the first of this year. As a dark horse, he won the first award of this year's Sundance Film Festival - the Audience Feature Film Award. The next best film is "Fireworks Signal", which has an "American Indian theme", and this film has a natural advantage at the Sundance Film Festival because it is a local Indian cultural town. But it only has a score of 7.6, which is far worse than "Grand Central Station".

"Grand Central Station" received rave reviews, and several screenings were sold out.

Even the New York Times staff critics have called it "one of the best films in the world," and they deserve this award.

Happy and others also became popular, and when they walked out of the hotel, they were even recognized as actors who had played the role of "Central Station". The organizer took the initiative to come to the door, saying that they wanted to meet the media interviews and specially held a news interview event.

In the auditorium of the Sundance Film School, reporters from more than 60 media outlets came uninvited, and although local media accounted for more than 20, there were many major media outlets. For example, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and so on.

"Huhu,~" happily took a deep breath, but still couldn't suppress the "surging" heartbeat. Regardless of past and present lives, it is the first time to face such a huge media interview.

Even he is like this, not to mention a few enemies of Roque. Fortunately, they don't need to be interviewed. advised: "Lao Zhang, record every scene of the interview." When these go back to publicity, they are all big news. ”

Zhang Zhengwu immediately felt like a big enemy, Luo Kedi saw that he was nervous, and took the initiative to take the job and said: "It's better for me to come, Zhang's English is not good, and the province will cause misunderstanding." ”

As a result, there was another photographer with strange behavior at the news interview scene, who was so fat that he photographed reporters more than on the stage.