At four or five o'clock in the morning, it was still dark.

The lights illuminate the outlines of dilapidated old buildings, shrouded in darkness, like old men in the twilight.

Clothes were dried outside the hundreds of windows of the old building, and the underwear was lined with clothes, which were disorganized, covering the exterior walls of the old building.

The faded billboards protruding from the buildings above the road - Wang Ji Early, Zhang's Hardware, General System Company......

Every few tens of meters of power poles, wires converge and cross over the road.

There are a lot of pedestrians on the road.

The vegetable stalls on the side of the road have been set up, and by the dim street lamps on the side of the road, I can barely see the vegetables spread on the sacks.

The stall owners were selling, and the buyers followed the flow of people, and when they encountered the vegetables they wanted to buy, they stopped and bargained with the stall owners.

Crowded, cluttered, old......

There are many adjectives that can describe this, and in the end they all come down to one - poverty.

Qin Muchu walked and watched all the way, and in addition to Deputy Director Ma and Zhang Songwen behind him, he was also followed by more than a dozen crew members.

There were props, there were cameras, and I carried four or five cameras.

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed that this would be Hong Kong Island, which is almost the same as my old town."

Deputy Director Ma couldn't help but sigh.

It is hard to imagine that a world-class metropolis like Hong Kong Island is still so backward.

"Sham Shui Po, the poorest area on Hong Kong Island, is such a big place, where hundreds of thousands of people live, and they are basically coffin houses and cage houses."

Zhang Songwen introduced, with a complicated look in his eyes - and emotion and compassion.

He lived here when he came to Hong Kong Island to experience life.

Seeing people around you every day is numb, busy, and no one is looking for better spiritual or material enjoyment, which is too luxurious.

To live, as if just to live.

Qin Muchu listened to the words of the two and did not make an evaluation.

Economic development is like this to a certain extent, the polarization between rich and poor, the bigger the city.

It's not something he can solve.

All he can do is use movies to give people in such a predicament a little encouragement and support.

If they still have the time and money to watch movies.

Qin Muchu kept looking at the buildings on both sides along the road, and looked up at the rooftop of the old building from time to time, constructing a scene in his mind, thinking about where to put the camera, and being able to take the picture he wanted.

"Director Qin, the sun is still half an hour away."

Deputy Director Ma glanced at the time and stepped forward to remind Qin Muchu.

The reason why they got up early this morning was to take a shot of Hong Kong Island at sunrise.

Qin Muchu was looking for a suitable shooting position.

If you can't find a camera spot and set up the shoot before sunrise, you'll have to come back tomorrow.

After all, the sunrise is only once a day.

"yes, got it."

Seeing Qin Muchu nodding, Deputy Director Ma retreated to the back and said no more.

After walking for another five or six minutes, just when everyone thought that they had run for nothing today, Qin Muchu suddenly stopped.

The line stopped.

Qin Muchu stood in the middle of the road, lined with bustling and dilapidated old towns, but at the end of the road was a tall building, with silver-white glass and metal exterior walls, in stark contrast to the dark old buildings.

The building was large and tall, like a mountain blocking the end of the road.

Qin Muchu looked up at the building, dozens of floors and nearly 100 meters high, and the old buildings were at its feet, like dwarves.

Seeing Qin Muchu stop and look at the building opposite, Assistant Director Ma immediately stepped forward and introduced:

"Director Qin, the opposite side is Tsuen Wan District."

Tsuen Wan District is one of the wealthier districts on Hong Kong Island.

High-rise buildings, shopping malls, and brand-name flagship stores have it all.

A road, like a dividing line between the worlds, separates the two worlds.

Qin Muchu looked around and kept looking at the upper floors of the surrounding buildings.

Suddenly, he stopped looking and pointed to an old building next to the "dividing line",

"Just go there, go to the top of that building and shoot it."

……

"Made, there are no elevators on more than ten floors, is there a sense of public morality!"

The props and cameramen sat on the roof of the old building, panting for breath and hammering their sore thighs.

Among them, the person carrying the camera scolded the hardest.

"It's not that there is no elevator, it's that it's broken and not repaired." Someone is more serious.

"What's the difference with that special code!"

"There are no elevator violations, and if it is broken, it is not repaired."

Qin Muchu patted the shoulder of the photographer and said with a smile.

All the staff immediately stood up, and the camera that was patted on the shoulder instantly stopped the scolding in their mouths, with a bitter face.

I was caught complaining at work and was caught by my boss.

He squinted his eyes and saw Assistant Director Ma's gaze as if he was about to kill.

Immediate remedy:

"Director Qin, I'm either complaining about being tired from work, or complaining about the people who live here. You see, it's okay for people like us to be in the prime of life, and those sixty or seventy old people live at such a height, how can they come up.

When I went upstairs, I saw that there were still a lot of old people living here. ”

Qin Muchu smiled,

"You're still worried about the country and the people."

"That is, how many years have I been educated in socialism, and I am not used to seeing the suffering of the world."

The camera patted his chest, and his face was full of righteousness.

has been in the industry for many years, and he is also an old fritter, so he will climb up with a stick.

"Don't worry about other people, according to what we say here, a flat is tens of thousands, you think others don't have an elevator, and someone else's toilet is enough for your hometown to buy a suite."

Deputy Director Ma surveyed the road.

Since he knew that Qin Muchu was going to come to Hong Kong Island to film, he made up for his knowledge of Hong Kong Island.

I don't want to know more, but the general situation must be clear, so as to prevent Qin Muchu from asking him, I don't know if I ask him.

"So expensive? Just this little broken house? ”

The cameraman's eyes widened.

This kind of dilapidated building, the door is still the kind of iron fence door, dirty, broken and crowded, and the same as the slum, the housing price is so high.

……

Qin Muchu walked around the rooftop, standing on the side eaves from time to time looking into the distance.

Use your fingers to form a small box that simulates the lens of a camera and look at the "shot" image.

"Director Qin, stand far away, there is wind in the morning, don't be blown down if you don't pay attention."

Zhang Songwen stepped forward and took Qin Muchu's arm and took two steps back.

The rooftop of this old building has no protective fences, maybe there used to be, but it has long been broken by the wind and sun.

"Not ......"

Before the word "Yu" was spoken, Qin Muchu lowered his head and saw a human head the size of an ant on the ground, a feeling of dizziness hit, his heart beat faster, his legs weakened, and he took two steps back.

Zhang Songwen hurriedly held Qin Muchu to prevent him from falling.

Anxiously asked:

"What's going on?"

After Qin Muchu took two steps back, he was far away from the edge of the rooftop, and the panic gradually dissipated.

Slowly stand up straight and shake your hands:

"It's okay, fear of heights."

Zhang Songwen knew that Qin Muchu had this problem as early as the crew of "Xingling", and he was not ashamed to listen to him.

And Zhang Songwen listened to Qin Muchu's words and put his mind at ease, he thought that there was something wrong with Qin Muchu's body.

After thinking about it, I thought it was a little funny:

"Afraid of heights, are you still standing aside?"

"I just didn't think about it."

Qin Muchu replied.

I was thinking about shooting pictures just now, and I completely forgot that I was afraid of heights.

Zhang Songwen wanted to say something, but Assistant Director Ma came over, holding a walkie-talkie in his hand, and handed it to Qin Muchu:

"Director Qin, they've also arrived."

In order to compare the pictures taken, Qin Muchu also divided into several groups of people and went to the rooftops of several old buildings nearby to shoot.

Qin Muchu took the walkie-talkie, and his eyes also saw the cameramen on the rooftops next to him waving to him.

"After a while, according to the position I pointed, arrange the position."

He said over the intercom.

"Roger."

"Roger."

“……”

Hearing the reply, Qin Muchu also began to arrange the camera position.

Standing in a corner of the rooftop, he looked at the building diagonally above, gestured at the building with a stick, and then put his eyes close to the stick to make an aiming shape.

"Will the sun come out of that way in a moment?"

He asked, pointing in the direction he was aiming at.

"Yes."

Deputy Director Ma stepped forward, and he also carried a compass for accuracy.

Qin Muchu nodded and put the stick down.

"Give me the flashlight."

Someone immediately handed a flashlight.

With a flashlight in hand, his eyes searched around the rooftop again.

It is full of miscellaneous items that residents don't want, such as broken sofas, televisions, tables, etc.

Qin Muchu walked to a table, and a big hole was broken in the table.

"Come on, two, move to where I just stood."

As soon as the words fell, two people immediately ran over.

Qin Muchu hugged the corner of the table, and the three of them worked together to move the table to the corner just now.

"Hold on, I'll stand up."

After Qin Muchu finished speaking, he climbed onto the table.

"No!"

"Director Qin, come down quickly!"

Zhang Songwen and Deputy Director Ma immediately grabbed Qin Muchu.

Behind the table is dozens of meters in the air, and at this height, you will never find a complete body if you fall.

"It's okay, you guys hold on, hurry up."

Qin Muchu slapped away the hands of the two.

Time was ticking, and he could already faintly see the light of the dawn.

Seeing this, everyone didn't dare to pull Qin Muchu hard because on the edge of the rooftop, so they could only let go of him.

"Director Qin, you're afraid of heights, aren't you afraid of heights?"

Zhang Songwen was still not at ease, and wanted Qin Muchu to come down by himself.

It would have been dangerous to stand on the rooftop, let alone on a tattered table.

You can't tell how long this table will last.

"I'll be afraid of heights later."

Qin Muchu hurriedly replied.

He straightened up, held his flashlight high, and shone the light downward, and a ray of light appeared in the air.

"Hold the stick up in the path of the light."

"Okay."

Deputy Director Ma knew that it was useless to persuade again, so he could only hope that Qin Muchu would finish it as soon as possible.

"Lao Zhang, you are the highest, you are the highest!"

Deputy Director Ma shouted backwards.

Immediately, a big man of more than 1.9 meters walked out, stepped forward and picked up a stick, and held it on the light from the flashlight.

"Director Qin, is that so?" The big man looked up and asked.

"Okay, don't move."

Qin Muchu nodded and put down the flashlight.

"I'll come down."

"It's all up!"

Deputy Director Ma immediately said, and at the same time stretched out his hand with Zhang Songwen to pull Qin Muchu.

Coming down from the table, Qin Muchu clapped his palms.

Walk up to the big man holding the stick, follow the direction of his stick, and slowly determine a point.

He drew an arc on the ground with stones.

"The cameras are here."

He pointed to the line drawn at his feet and said to a photographer:

"After a while, the camera will be placed on this line, and the specific point, depending on the sunlight adjustment, the angle of the lens is the angle at which the stick is tilted."

The photographer nodded, and immediately began to arrange the camera according to Qin Muchu's words.

Qin Muchu turned around and went to arrange the filming teams on several other buildings......

The camera is already set up and is just waiting for sunrise to shoot.

As the clock ticked by, the eastern sky grew brighter and brighter, from dark red to deep red to pale yellow......

The color gradually moves closer to the bright system.

"Power on."

Qin Muchu ordered.

In an instant, all the cameras on the rooftop started working together.

Qin Muchu looked at the shooting picture of the building he was in, didn't say a word, and quietly waited for the sun to reach the right position.

Slowly, slowly, the sun moved at an undetectable speed.

Finally, the sun met Qin Muchu's predetermined trajectory.

In the shot, the sunlight illuminates the sunny side of the building, and under the reflection of the glass and steel plates, it is bright and dazzling, making it impossible to look directly.

Due to the barrier of the building, there is no sunlight in the old building, but it is a little bright under the reflection of the light of the building, and the clothes on the windowsill are quietly dried.

The skyscraper that is half bright and half dark, the dilapidated old building that glows because of the reflection, and the shadows of the building on its walls constitute an oppressive and dreary picture.

"Slowly move the camera to the street downstairs."

Qin Muchu said.

The camera immediately turned.

Old billboards, cluttered power lines and bustling crowds on the streets appeared.

The still picture comes to life.

And a long time passed.

The sun has gradually moved high into the sky.

The sun shines on the body, shining on people to feel warm.

Qin Muchu stared at the camera, "Go back to the angle just now." ”

The picture goes back to the way it was at the beginning.

The building is still the building, the old building is still the old building, nothing has changed.

But the sunlight has changed.

The building that originally blocked the sunlight from shining on the old building can no longer be blocked because the sun is high.

The sunlight splashed on the old building without obstruction, and the black old building was golden.

A breeze blew, and the clothes on the windowsill fluttered gently......

(There is another chapter, writing)

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