So, where did Xie Xingchen go in the past sixteen years?

In fact, she finished college quietly, and her grades were not bad, but they were not good, and she barely graduated.

But there is also a certain benefit to becoming famous at a young age, that is, she has accumulated a small fortune, so after graduation, she did not rush to find a job, but opened a small video store that sells all kinds of genuine movie discs.

Business is not very easy to do, at first to fight with cheap pirated discs, and then, the Internet era is coming, Internet cafes are popular, she has to compete with the free resources in Internet cafes for business, and then it will be even more difficult, computers into thousands of households, the rise of video sites, each video site has a large number of free genuine resources, except for movie enthusiasts, who has to spend money to buy discs?

In 2016, the video store was finally overwhelmed and closed.

After closing the video store, Xie Xingchen, who had not traveled for a long time, suddenly wanted to take a trip around the world.

She first went to the United States, standing under the Statue of Liberty, standing on the Golden Gate Bridge, feeling the hot wind of the Grand Canyon and the cool breeze blowing from the Hudison River...... Then she went to the continent, starting from the hidden country, crossing the English Channel to the continent, passing through France, Decheng...... The last stop of the tour is Sicily.

Standing on the beach in Sicily, Xie Xingchen suddenly remembered a long, long time ago...... It was sixteen years ago, sixteen years ago, at dusk in the winter, she and her classmates came out of the video hall, still reminiscing about the Sicilian director's film, it was the happiest day since she became a public figure at the age of eleven, the beauty of the movie moved her, so that her mouth kept spitting out words of admiration, so that her arms couldn't help but wave to the fullest, and the boy in the same class followed behind her, with his hands in his trouser pockets, and looked at her with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

I don't know where the boy is now, since the separation, she has not inquired about his whereabouts, all these years, she refuses to return to her alma mater, refuses to participate in the class reunion, and refuses to have any intersection with everything in the past.

He is such a good boy, maybe he has a successful career now and works at NASA, maybe he is in Silicon Valley, no matter how bad he is, he should be in Zhongguancun......

However, thirty-two-year-old Xie Xingchen saw him in Sicily in the next second.

At sunset, the thirty-two-year-old Wan Xinghe sat on the beach in Sicily, the bicycle fell beside him, at a glance, he seemed to be sitting on the desert, you have to look far away, you can see the sea, it turns out that this is the beach......

Just like her favorite set of shots in "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily".

At the age of thirty-two, Xie Xingchen met Wan Xinghe again.

To her surprise, Wan Xinghe is not in NASA, not in Silicon Valley, and not in Zhongguancun.

He's in Hollywood.

After graduating from college, he studied in the United States, not in mathematics, physics or chemistry, but in film.

In the past 12 years, he has worked hard in Hollywood, from being an assistant to a small director to an assistant to a big director, and he has been conscientious for 12 years.

If he went to NASA, he might already be an engineer, if he went to Silicon Valley, he might already be a financier, and if he went to Zhongguancun, he might have gotten financing...... But he chose film, so by the age of thirty-two, he was still not an independent director.

Wan Xinghe didn't care: "Ang Lee didn't direct a movie for the first time at the age of thirty-eight!" In our industry, we are still hairy children at the age of forty. ”

His optimism softened Xie Xingchen's heart, and in the Sicilian sea breeze, she asked him: "Why do you want to be a director?" ”

Wan Xinghe looked at her, and there was a bright galaxy in his eyes: "Because you like movies, I want to make movies for you." ”

After a pause, he continued, "You like movies, I've always known that." ”

Xie Xingchen froze in place.

Yes, he said she liked movies, he said she always knew, but she didn't know it herself, she debuted at the age of eleven, Huang Liang dreamed for 20 years, she was a good child for seven years, a rebellious girl for two years, and 12 years of ordinary life, life changes again and again, she never knew what she liked and what she wanted.

is a good child because others want her to be a good child and a rebellious girl, because she is tired of being a good child, in fact, she doesn't like to be a good child, and she doesn't like punk, and she is even more tired of ordinary people's lives...... She never knew what she wanted, but at the age of thirty-two, her classmate boy many years ago said to her, "You like movies, I've always known it."

On that day, together in Sicily, they rewatched The Beautiful Legend of Sicily.

When she walked out of the movie theater, the sky was shining red, standing on the seaside, Xie Xingchen raised her arms, the golden red afterglow flowed on her arms, Wan Xinghe stood behind her and looked at her, everything was the same as sixteen years ago.