A black coupe slowly pulled up on the side of the road, the door opened, Hugo stepped down, then closed the door, patted the roof, and the car started again, slowly moving along the path, and finally disappeared from sight.

The sound of the engine seemed to disturb the birds on the branches, and a flock of sparrows fluttered and flew into the blue sky, drawing an idle trajectory in the clear and translucent blue sky, stirring up circles of golden light, like a pure natural oil painting, people can't help but close their eyes and take a deep breath, the air mixed with the scorching sun and the fresh sea breeze is blowing in the air, even though it is November, still wafting with the residual smell of summer.

Hugo turned his head to look around, but found that there was no one to see on the whole road, and even after the roar of the car engine was gone, not even a sound could be heard, and a light breeze blew by, still without any noise, as if the slightest movement would stir up a powerful echo and destroy the peace of the town.

The name of the town is Seeside, which literally translates to "seaside", and the name shows how careless the people who founded the town in the early eighties were and didn't even bother to give the town a real name. "Truman's World" chose to shoot in this town in the end.

At the beginning, Peter Weir and the crew members had been trying to find a perfect filming location to build the appearance of the studio in "Truman's World", but they were never able to find a suitable location. After all, there is still a huge difference between a real-life town and a studio.

Finally, it was again in the visual consultant Wendy Stitz. Stites) came to Seaside. After the field trip, everyone was very satisfied, so it was decided that this place would be used as the location for the film. The entire crew will shoot the entire film here.

Hugo drove to Seaside today after arriving in Miami yesterday, but Hugo decided to get a real feel for the town, so he asked Samora to drive to the crew while he got out of the car and walked on foot.

Just standing at the intersection and taking a rough look, Hugo seemed to understand the reason why the crew chose Seside, this town is too quiet, although there is no dead silence of an empty city, you can still vaguely feel the popularity and vitality floating in the air, but you can only hear some waves with all your might, as if you have been thrown on a desert island, and you have no other partners except yourself.

Hugo slowly took a step, slowly walking along the path in front of him, there are not too many forks in the road, the straight road seems to be able to see the end at a glance, the small houses on both sides of the road, all are one-story wide houses with a small garden, neatly arranged, and the appearance of all the residences looks exactly the same, there are almost no differences, the same beige white walls, red roofs with dark red gates, white wooden fences enclose the green space at the door, Even the lilac bushes at the door are uniformly cut into the shape of round wooden barrels, and there are not even extra flower pots to embellish.

It's like...... It's as if walking into any house is your own home. Hugo couldn't help but start making up the funny plot of going home drunk and going to the wrong door at night, with the almost identical low buildings in front of him, there was no sense of disobedience at all.

At the end of the street, Hugo found that he had reached the beach, and the blue sea in front of him was calm and calm, and it seemed that even the sea breeze was not too strong, making people suspect that it was just a pond. Looking left and right, I saw a building next to it, in fact, there were not many obvious differences from the other houses around, except that the sign hanging at the door showed that it was a post office, and Hugo walked over again.

"Jingle bell", the crunch of wind chimes vibrated in the wind, and out of the gate of the post office came an elderly gentleman, dressed in a simple gray jacket and a certain wide-brimmed top hat, and walked down slowly. This was the first person Hugo saw when he arrived in Seaside, and the gentleman nodded his chin to Hugo, smiled gently, and then took another step, step by step, unhurriedly, in perfect harmony with the rhythm of the whole town, as if it were naturally so.

It was so peaceful, Hugo really hadn't seen it for a long time, there were no screams, no cheers, no surprises, even the voice calling the name "Hugo" was gone, everything was so ordinary, as if it were just an ordinary afternoon. The inhabitants of the town did not feel the riots caused by the arrival of the crew of "Truman's World" at all.

Walking through this street, you can see the sea around the corner again, but as soon as you turn to the right-hand side, the noise in the sea breeze is faintly heard, but it is not the noise of people, just the sound of someone whispering daily conversation.

Walking down the street, you can see art galleries, antique shops, fashion stores, bookstores and restaurants, neatly lined up on both sides of the street, and scattered pedestrians on the road to spend their ordinary days without hurrying. Even on such a "bustling" street, Hugo would never have more than fifteen pedestrians in sight, and it seemed that this was already the noisiest place in the town.

Hugo always thought it was a strange place, and after walking half the street, he realized that the style of these buildings was no different from the residential area just now, still with beige walls and red roofs, and even the signboard at the door was not too conspicuous, as if it was just another residential area.

It's like ...... It's like a model home. It is the kind of area where a large area of model houses was built next to the foundation during the construction to provide a place for the staff to live during the long construction process, but these houses did not stipulate any use, so they were built according to the unified style and unified style, some were used as housing, some were used as restaurants, and some were used as bars...... But from the outside, it's all consistent. When the construction is complete, the model houses will be demolished and the vacant land will be re-planned.

The town of Seaside is like that, as the name suggests, as if the people who came to the land were just going to stay here for a few months and then build a golf course or a resort or something like that, but after they settled there, they forgot about it and slowly settled down here.

There is no character, no style, no difference, not even any color, just an ordinary town, which is unforgettable, and it is impossible to leave any special impression on the town.

It is precisely such an ordinary, but it has become the most special place in the town - that is, the appearance that has been pursued in "Truman's world". They were planning to create an artificial island, with buildings that were characterless and styleless. It's like a model house, but there are people living in it; It's like a studio, but it's surrounded by the sea, the blue sea and the blue sky; It's like a fictional world, but it's real.

If it is built in a studio, this project is too huge, almost equivalent to rebuilding the entire town, and the process from the plan to the implementation is almost an impossible task, but I didn't expect that in real life, such a town really exists. It's no wonder that when Peter and the others found out about this place, they were almost excited, and immediately called Hugo, saying that they had found a perfect location to shoot.

Seaside, even more perfect than a sound studio.

The most important thing is that it is surrounded by the sea on three sides and backed by mountains on one side, which is almost a natural "island" - an island that is not an island. From any part of the town you can walk to the sea, Hugo walked to the end of the street, and then he saw the blue sea again, and felt like he was surrounded by the ocean.

However, this time it was a little different, a little further on, there was a pier, but there were only a few lonely wooden boats on the pier, and you could see seagulls docked at the bow, and there were five or six people chatting beside the pier. Hugo thought for a moment and stepped forward, "Hey, good afternoon." ”

"Oh, there's a stranger." The middle-aged man with a mustache standing in the middle laughed and spat out a puff of his cigarette, "So, you're the one who came to town in the last few days, right?" "I didn't recognize Hugo.

Hugo smiled and nodded, "Sorry for disturbing your daily life. ”

The middle-aged man waved his hand, "This is a good thing for us, our days have hardly changed, and finally there is something new, and there is more chatting with my wife at dinner." God, this is really a place without any surprises. ”

"Oh? How so? Hugo raised an eyebrow and asked with interest on his face.

"That's what a ...... There is no place. The middle-aged man shrugged his shoulders, "There are no good, no bad, no surprises, no surprises, no riches, no poverty, no disasters, no changes......"

The person next to you took over the conversation word by word, "no excitement, no thrill", "no challenge, no freshness", "no difference, no difference", "no affair", this last sentence made everyone laugh, "You want to have an affair and no one wants you, right?" Everyone burst out laughing.

The middle-aged man pursed his lips and took a hard puff on his cigarette, "It's impossible to even find a black man or a gay guy here." ”

It seems to be a very boring town, but in the eyes of many people, it is also the most perfect life, a quiet but smooth life, "but in the eyes of many people, this is the perfect life." Hugo spoke.

The middle-aged man let out a long smoke from his mouth, "Is there really perfection in this world?" A meaningful remark made Hugo think, but he then said, "Maybe Madonna is perfect." Everyone laughed again, heartily and briskly.