"Hello dark, my old friend, I'm coming to talk to you again"

As soon as "the-sound-of-silence" sounded, the end credits were displayed on the screen, and the crying in the screening room suddenly became more audible.

At the entrance of the theater, Kern, the departure investigator hired by Lionsgate, was stunned, looking at the auditorium in the dim light of the auditorium, and the few scattered audience members could let out such a loud cry? Isn't this a horror movie? He can understand the audience's frightened "no", but he can't quite understand the ...... now. What's going on!?

After more than three years in this job, he really rarely sees this kind of situation, and this is not "The Passion of the Christ", and this is the first time that Lionsgate releases so many thrillers every year!

Because he was not in charge of statistical work, Kern didn't carefully look through the small stack of scattered questionnaires left over from the previous class, and then he couldn't help but take out his work bag curiously and flipped it up, and his surprise spread from his eyes, hell......

It's really a good day to cry, Gia wiped the tears that welled up from the corners of her eyes, wasn't it, first, she was hit hard, and second, she watched a good movie of horror and grief, and the last few minutes were so exciting, the shocking dance shots, the shocking use of home video, and the shocking ending song...... It's all about the sublimation of the movie, and it's all about the director's genius!

The best part is that these two things are actually the same thing! Damn bastard! Do you think anything good will happen to Master Gia if you make you cry?

Emma next to her was snorting quietly, not knowing what the situation was, but feeling that she was completely knocked down by the screen story, and she felt very uncomfortable. I don't want to die ugly and bad, I just want to die in the most beautiful time, every girl will have this thought, is there anything wrong with this? Is there anything to be punished for?

I kind of hate viy, big badass, on the contrary, I like Nina a little, it's pathetic......

No, she's not pitiful! It's Maggie. Maybe walk out of the screening room, maybe after tonight, I will be jealous of that guy again, and even hate "Maggie", but now I really like and sympathize with Maggie, and I can't let go of Maggie.

In the front row of the audience, Grande and Potko were both in tears, almost crying, not only because of the emotional impact of the screen, but also because of another layer of emotion brought by the song. It was a coincidence of fate only for them, and even Kuhler of the soundtrack did not know about it.

"The-Sound-of-Silence" was first used as an interlude to "The Graduate" in 1967, and it has since been silent for a while, just because it is so classic that audiences will think of "The Graduate" when they hear it. It was not until the 90s that it began to be used frequently, and everyone wanted to be its new spokesperson.

The last time I used it was called "Single Men's Club," a comedy from two years ago, Todd Phillips's film, which was based on his college documentary "The Sorority." "Sorority" has two directors, one named Todd Phillips and the other named Andrew Grande.

The latest movie to use it is called "The Exorcism Video," a Yonik Kuhler movie, and their film is being used for the first time in a horror film.

Listening to the crying around them, both of them have a certain confidence that this will be the biggest new impression of "The-Sound-of-Silence" to the world, the most perfect combination of video and audio!

Todd, you'll see it, you'll hear it!

The eyes of the three film critics, Custer, Orr, and Sherk, were filled with tears, and the more they felt, the greater the spiritual impact.

Custer leaned back in his chair like a prostration, looking at the big screen scrolling the credits, listening to the song and reminiscing about the previous 90 minutes of video, his heart was very messy, and he had so many feelings. It's not just a haunted house roller coaster, it's a part of the brain and heart.

What are they? For a while, he had a lot of thoughts, and the most important thing in his heart was about hope.

The ending of "The Exorcist" is calm and positive, with the two priests martyred and Regen returning to a life free of demons. The ending of "Blair the Witch" is hopeless, only endless fear, and the unknown terrible, predictable death is just outside the tent. What about "The Exorcism Video"?

Cruel, painful, shocking. It's hopeless, Maggie's passing, something more terrible than death.

If death could save Maggie, Switzer would be willing, and Cotton might be willing, but they couldn't. In the face of this grief, the difficult moment when every faith it represents is challenged, it is a huge question of how to deal with it.

Everyone's new wounds in the barn would probably not heal lightly, and the pain of the old wounds would come back, just as the wound left by Cotton's shaving burst and bled at the last moment.

But didn't the ending scene already say something, it was also icy and snowy, the first moment it was so cold, depressing, and desperate, and the next moment Amy and Maggie's ordinary family video was so warm, beautiful, and happy. The question is not what kind of weather we encounter (difficult situation), but how we deal with it.

Their videos are the real exorcism videos, the real exorcism relics.

Because they have faith in it, technology (video) with faith can bring hope, and technology (guns) without faith can only bring ruin in the end!

This is the hope it gives people, but the hope it gives people is precisely the beauty that has been destroyed, like standing in a ruin and finding a family photo full of smiles. Hope, despair, and so complex came together! It made you want to cry.

It's a thought-provoking, evocative classic, and it's unbelievable that a 90-minute pseudo-documentary can do that!

Custer liked the film so much that his reviews wouldn't use the word "tragedy", and although there are many tragic classics, North American audiences were extremely disgusted with the word "tragedy", believing that the power of the individual could overcome their own destiny. To say that it is a tragedy that will affect its box office is to use "emotional". He can't wait for every audience to come and watch it, and he wants to share the feelings after watching the movie.

He also doesn't use the word "Hollywood", "The Exorcism Video" has nothing to do with Hollywood, it's an independent film with an independent spirit.

The reason why independent films are always full of surprises is because it doesn't care about the commercial limitations of Hollywood's bullshit. "The exorcism worked, Maggie was all right, and the Swaitzers sent Cotton away in the snow", that's what Hollywood did. This is what independent films do. Maybe TET's box office will not be good, he is just a film critic who doesn't understand distribution, so he subjectively feels that it is so independent that it will not necessarily be consumed by the mainstream. But in any case, it will definitely be a cult classic.

All the TET staff, actors, Custer doesn't call them Hollywood people, they are independent filmmakers!

Orr choked up, there was so much to say in the film review, and one question was how to interpret the tet, especially its ending.

Is it Maggie or the devil who is holding Maggie in the end?

If it was a demon, it was really dying, so using such a trick, it used a beautiful dance to cover up its ugly evil and weakness, and successfully deceived Cotton, Switzer and everyone else, making them mistakenly think that the exorcism had failed, so they killed Maggie on the spot.

Isn't everything in the world deceptive, beautiful can also be evil, good and evil, good and bad, beautiful and ugly, true and false, who can know it all?

If it was Maggie, she lost her faith, and Switzer tried to act as a god, and the mortal who pretended to be God created only ruined Miè, even if Maggie was his daughter, like his creation, but in fact it was not, everyone was a creature of God.

In the end, it was not the demon that the cross could not defeat, but the human spear, the demon who thought he was a god.

Whether it is a demon or Maggie, they have hit the weakness of human nature, in the face of powerful demons, human beings are too easy to shake, lose, collapse in faith, and give up, "You have to listen to me I can teach you, and I can save you by holding my hand", Maggie didn't catch it, and neither did Swaitzer.

Did Cotton have a martyr who wanted to be martyred? He didn't get in front of the gun again, what was he thinking......

Everyone will have a different answer, depending on how to interpret it, and it depends on their own heart.

It dawned on Orr that this was the way to interpret tet, that it was a masterpiece of "what you are, you see what you are", that some people would like to be a demon, and some people would like to be Maggie. And he likes to think it's Maggie, just like the directorial attitude shown by the director "Yunik Kuller" - that frontal close-up.

Why did Maggie smile? What did she see? Heaven? He liked to interpret it that way, Maggie went to heaven, where she and her mother, Amy, danced happily.

Because the other interpretations that flashed were too cruel...... Orr thinks he's always been greedy for good things.

Shek really didn't expect to cry tonight, the last stream of consciousness shot is so handsome! An ordinary home video can make people so shocking. This is already one of his favorite cinematic shots.

"Exorcism Video": one of the best horror films in the 21st century, the best exorcism movie after "The Exorcist", and one of the best films since the birth of pseudo-documentaries, completely breaking the idea that "pseudo-documentaries are only like "Blair the Witch", and is destined to be recorded in the classics of cult film history and even the entire film history.

Sherk wanted to praise the two Grande, but he was a little confused, is Yunik Kuller them......? Not quite like ......

In the middle of the back row of the screening room, the middle-aged man's face was silent, his moist eyes under his glasses were full of pain, he sighed, took off his glasses, and wiped his eyes.

There aren't many horror stories that can tell painful stories, this is one, and there are not many horror movies that can make painful horror films, this is one.

He felt lucky today, and he accidentally found this movie on the Internet, and he came to see it when it was released today. He couldn't remember how many times he had been to the theater to watch a horror movie, thinking that tonight was just another ordinary night, but he actually tasted the horror of pain.

"Yunik Kuller, Yunik Kuller......" the middle-aged man muttered a few times.

Death, parting, broken families, estrangement, silence, despair, disillusionment......

It's not that it's impossible to shoot without experiencing it, but it's more likely that it's experienced, what terrible things happened in Kuller's life?Painful childhood?Father or mother died?Disappeared?Lost love?Was he bullied?

"Stanley, maybe I've found a bastard genius like you. No, not exactly, this delicacy, this struggle, has the potential of Frank. ”

The middle-aged man looked at the big screen where the cast was gradually finished, and suddenly became a little excited, "Look at what I found, a person who has the potential of Stanley Kubrick and Frank Darabont at the same time, Yunik Kuller, what a genius...... Don't be too old, this is always a new era for young people......"

In the Odeo Studios, the screening room is also crying.

"Yunik......" Nina was surprised to notice that Ye Wei's eyes were hazy with tears, and she couldn't help but put her arms around him, and she also shed tears, feeling sorry for him. She could feel his pain, the pain that made him make this movie that made him cry.

"Welcome to watch the darkness inside me. Ye Wei kissed her hair, "I hate my darkness, but they are also the reason why I am who I am, I hope you don't mind." ”

Nina blinked her brown eyes, her fiery lips kissed his tense face and pursed lips, and after a few kisses, she said gently: "I don't fully understand your sadness, but I want you to know that I love your darkness as much as I love your light!"

Ye Wei grinned when he heard this, "Thank you...... Thank you for giving me the strength to dare to face it. ”

"Do I have it? I'll give you it all!"

After singing a sad song, the end credits are about to end, but no audience in the theater has gotten up to leave, and everyone seems to be reluctant to leave, not because they want to see easter eggs, they don't want Maggie to die, and they don't want to accept this ending......

Los Angeles, Landmark Cinema Screening Room, when the cast is over, and the logos of Lionsgate and Cliff Films are shown, it's all over, no easter eggs, no other images. The story is just like that, frozen in the video of Maggie and Amy's past.

"No, don't be like this......" Debbie couldn't help but cry a few more times, don't let Maggie die for the sake of making money for the sequel!

"Let her come alive!please, bring that girl back to life!!" An audience member in front of him complained loudly, unable to hide his sadness, "It's too bad." ”

"Dude, you know it's actually a movie, right? The actress is still alive. Someone said, "Nobody dies......" he said, choking up and scolding, "Don't let me see that bastard director, how can he do this!?"

The screen began to play trailers for other films, and despite reluctance, the small audience began to disperse, their conversation buzzing like the background of the movie: "It's horrible." "It's the first time I've watched a horror movie so uncomfortable. "I'm going to watch another comedy right away, or I won't be in a good mood this weekend." ”

There was no applause, only a low sigh, but this was the highest praise for "The Exorcism Video".

Ye Haogen and Gu Qiao, who were sitting close to the front row, both smiled with moist eyes, proud of their son, and sad and worried for him, it seems that last year's family crisis and his breakup with Lily still caused him a lot of damage...... Fortunately, it's all over now, and it's getting better.

"You guys really made a good movie. On the front row, everyone stood up, and Custer couldn't help but excitedly reach out and shake hands with Grande and the others.

Orr also nodded, "I will give it full marks, this is my admiration for it and for you." Sherk did not have the previous arrogance, patted the two of them on the shoulder, and praised: "I don't care if you are Yunik Kuller or not, you have made a classic." ”

"Thank you......" Grande and Potcoe were happy and amused, "Cooler is really not us. "Yes, I also want to have Kuller's talent, but unfortunately I don't. ”

Michael Grady, the photographer next to him, also smiled at this time: "Of course Cooler is not them. Julie Berghoff joked, "That kid tortured us so badly, they can't do that." ”

"Boy?" Castor wondered.

Everyone in the crew suddenly fell silent, the air seemed to freeze, and Berghoff did not dare to speak again. Grande hurriedly said: "Kueller is a young man, younger than all of us, we can't say exactly how much, it's a young man." ”

"A young genius?" Sheke was interested, everyone loved geniuses, "It won't be younger than Ye Wei, right?"

"Not so young......" Grande sighed, and everyone didn't dare to come out.

The three film critics didn't take it to heart, they definitely wouldn't be as young as viy, if they were younger than the two of Grande, young people in their 20-30s, right?

Seriously, there is nothing comparable between "The Wedding is Coming" filmed by viy and "Exorcism Video", can this kind of pain be filmed by viy? No matter how prodigy he is, he is a teenager after all, and no one knows what "Little Sunshine Beauty" will be like for the time being.

They love horror movies, and of course they love Cooler even more, an absolute genius.

At the same time, investigator Kern stood at the door of the theater and handed out checkbox questionnaires to the audience who were willing to do the survey.

He finally understood why the questionnaire would be done so little, these viewers were very moved by the movie, one by one the expressions were wrong, some people were still wiping their tears, and some girls were crying red and swollen from crying, so they were not in the mood to do the investigation, almost all of them pushed away, shook their heads, and still left indulging in something.

"Hello, would you like to fill out a questionnaire? ”

Finally, a girl who looked like a college student nodded her head and agreed, took the questionnaire and the pen and ticked it off. A college boy who had been there for a long time came over and shouted dissatisfiedly: "What's wrong with you, wasting a night, you have to watch a bad movie that is not as good as "Blair the Witch" for 10 minutes." ”

Debbie was filling out the questionnaire carefully, and looked up at him when she heard the voice, "You don't even know what you're missing, you're so sad, you're so sad......"

"Haha. Gsta smirked disdainfully, "A bad movie." ”

On the other side, Lev, Bud and others were also leaving, and Shun Lì found Master Gia and Emma to walk together, talking about the movie just now, everyone was very emotional. Even the normally wooden-like Colwin was in tears, and they were really worried about whether his autism would worsen.

"I'll just say Nina will have awesome cadenza shots. Jiya is still sighing about this, he died so beautifully, it turns out that he is a master of picking girls.

Emma didn't want to show her envy and resurgence in front of everyone, but she couldn't help but agree: "At the end, her dancing scene is beautiful. ”

Everyone walked out of the theater and was stopped by the investigator, so they filled in the investigation. Then Bud suddenly saw something and whispered, "Look, that guy really looks like Stephen King." ”

"Which one?" everyone turned their eyes to see a middle-aged man who had also left the theater and walked forward without investigation, looking like Stephen King.

Stephen King, whose father abandoned his wife and children when he was two years old, witnessed his best friend being run over by a train in his childhood, is a master of modern horror fiction, one of the best-selling authors in the world, and a household name in the United States.

His novels have been heavily adapted for film and television, and are said to be second only to Shakespeare in a rate. You may not have read his novels, but you will probably have seen his movies, at least heard of them, at least these three: "Carrie the Witch", "The Shining", "The Shawshank Redemption".

"Hey, it's really ......" Gia glanced at it a few times, because of the family relationship, she had seen Stephen King before, and it was really similar.

"yes, his glasses look like that. Chen Nuo said with more research.

"Wait a minute......" Everyone looked at each other, realizing something...... Bud suddenly screamed, "That person is Stephen King! Stephen King has come to see "The Exorcism Video!!" Lev and Corwin hurriedly covered his fat mouth in a rare incongruity.

The surrounding investigators and others looked at them in amazement, and then nervously and excitedly looked around the corridor aisle, where is Stephen King!?

"Let's catch up and ask!" Emma was also anxious, one of the idols' viewing experience!

"Stop, don't go up, you won't make a mistake if you don't speak, this time we have to be calm. "I support Master Gia!"

"Don't you want to know what he has to say......? Yonick......Oh my God, Stephen King!!"

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"Danny, listen to me. I've only talked to you once, not a second time. There are things that shouldn't be told to a six-year-old, but often not the way they should be. Danny, the world is hard, it doesn't care about people. It doesn't hate you and me, but it doesn't love us either.

There are so many terrible things happening in the world, and no one can say anything about them.

Sometimes good people die miserably and painfully, leaving behind those who love them. Sometimes it seems that only bad people live long and thrive.

The world doesn't love you, but your mother loves you, and I love you, and you're a good boy. You feel sad for your dad, and later when you feel that you can't help but cry for what happened to your dad, you run to the toilet or cry under the covers until you finish crying, and a good son has to do that. However, be sure to move forward. This is what you should do in this difficult world, be loving, be sure to move forward, no matter what difficulties you encounter, pick yourself up and move forward. ”

- The Shining, Stephen King