On this day, the sun is shining, the autumn breeze is smoking, and the birds are singing, which is a good day for leisure and entertainment.

In the City Cinema Hall 3 on the island of Lido, almost 200 people came, all of them to watch "Three Billboards".

Because of Li Shengyao, Zhang Manyu has some prestige in the hearts of senior fans, so there are many fans who like movies.

At the same time, many journalists, film critics, and film festival judges came to watch.

Ginger Pattern, Bellutocchi came over.

Berrutocchi is the chief jury of this year's film festival, and his requirements for good films are relatively normal.

Just like the movies he made himself, they must first be good-looking, and then they must be both commercial and artistic.

Berrutocchi's favorite movies are, in general, understandable to the average movie fan.

Under such a general tone, some unknown and bizarre movies have not been recognized by the jury.

For example, the new movie "Mobius", the winner of the last Golden Lion Award, Kim Ki-duk, is too personal in aesthetics, and the evaluation given by the jury is foggy and unintelligible.

Kim Ki-duk, as the winner of the last Golden Lion Awards, this time the new film did not even make it to the final twenty shortlists.

In addition to these people, there are also some colleagues in the circle who are dedicated to Li Shengyao.

Lee Shengyao has won the Palme d'Or twice, and there is no doubt that he will become a big man like Berrutocchi in the future.

There are Chinese, and there are foreign.

Chen Kexin was one of them, he took Wu Junru into the theater and found a place to sit down.

Wu Junru only came over last night, and she came here to accompany Chen Kexin.

This time, the Venice Film Festival classic re-screening, only two Chinese films, "Sweet Honey" is one of them, Chen Kexin is still very proud.

He called Wu Junru over just to let Wu Junru see how awesome he was.

Wu Junru only arrived at Lido Island last night, and she was very tired from constantly changing modes of transportation along the way.

I woke up this morning and still felt sleepy.

When I sat down at this time, I couldn't help but doze off.

Chen Kexin laughed in a low voice: ""Three Billboards" is said to be about a woman who is at stake, you can take a look. ”

Wu Junru pouted, "I don't like Lee Shengyao's movies. ”

Everyone has their own preferences, Wu Junru likes some little girls' movies, just like Fenghua's idol dramas.

She likes to watch all the TV series produced by Li Shengyao before, and she doesn't like the movies produced by Li Shengyao later.

While the two couples were discussing, the theater was much quieter, and on the big screen in front, the images scrolled, and the movie officially began.

Wu Junru thought for a while and said in a low voice: "I'd better take a look, after all, it's Ayu's new movie." ”

At the beginning of the movie, the camera fell directly on the face of the heroine played by Zhang Manyu, and then gradually pulled away, and the heroine drove a car and walked on the road outside the town with her son.

The heroine is beautiful, thin, cold-looking, indifferent, and impatient all over her body, and she caught a glimpse of the billboard on the mountain, and her dead and dull eyes flashed a glimmer of light.

The heroine has an idea, she comes to the advertising agency in the town and wants to rent a billboard.

The advertising agency has only two employees, the boss and his secretary, and the boss wants a higher price, but the heroine says that she doesn't have that much money.

The boss thought that the three billboards were empty and empty, so he planned to make them cheaper.

So at a very low price, the heroine rented a billboard.

She then paid and wrote three billboards on a slip of paper.

The boss of the advertising agency saw the words on the note, and then laughed, saying that it was not possible to write such advertising words, and the heroine insisted.

The secretary felt that this had a hype effect, and perhaps could make the billboard have a higher commercial value.

The boss of the advertising agency agreed.

This paragraph looks very bland, but it's quite interesting, and two suspense are set up here.

The first is why the heroine became like this, and the second is what the heroine writes on the billboard.

"Ayu's acting is very good."

Wu Junru was originally very sleepy, watching the movie, unconsciously immersed in it.

The movie continues, the billboards are erected, and these three billboards tell two things, one is that the heroine's daughter was raped and killed a few years ago, and the other is the inaction of the town's police chief.

However, the town chief is quite respected in the town, and the heroine's behavior has annoyed many town residents, as well as the police officers at the police station.

These people began to make things difficult for the heroine.

Wu Junru and Chen Kexin gave birth to a daughter, and she easily brought in the heroine.

She whispered to Chen Kexin: "This heroine is so pitiful, if I were her, I would do the same." ”

Chen Kexin felt that at present, the plot was quite old-fashioned, and there was nothing exciting, he was a little strange, and felt that this should not be Li Shengyao's handiwork.

The movie continues, the police chief talks to the heroine, he looks very strong, he clearly tells the heroine that her daughter's case has passed too long, there is a lack of relevant evidence, and it is very likely that the crime is committed by outsiders, and there is no way to detect it.

The police chief's words made the heroine very angry, and the two quarreled.

The heroine looks weak, but she is stubborn, no matter how the police chief explains, she just doesn't listen.

At this moment, the police chief suddenly spurted a mouthful of blood.

Only then did the audience know that the police chief had an incurable disease and had at most half a year to live, and he had already applied for retirement and had been approved, and he would retire in a month.

He hopes that the heroine will take down the billboard, come out of this matter, and stop immersing herself in it.

There's a status shift here, and the heroine looks more powerful than the police chief.

Chen Kexin saw it and said in a low voice: "This design is good, full of tension." ”

The film continues, and then the heroine disagrees, and she is targeted by more townspeople, as well as the police.

When a dentist saw her dentist, he even tried to trick her, giving her a foreknowledge in advance, and forcefully hammered out the dentist's two big teeth.

Then she didn't have enough money, she didn't have the money to renew the lease for the billboards.

Here, again, the position of the heroine changes, and she becomes vulnerable again.

This is the wonderful shrinkage of this movie, the status of the heroine is constantly changing, pulling the audience's emotions.

The movie continues, and there are strangers who help the heroine pay the advertising fee.

Then the police chief committed suicide at home.

The police chief left two letters, one to the family and one to the heroine.

A letter to a family member is an inheritance arrangement, as well as an expression of love.

And the letter to the heroine is to express his apologies and give hope, he hopes that the heroine can successfully catch the criminal.

However, the townspeople don't know that the police chief is actually very supportive of the heroine, and the cost of the billboard is paid by the police chief.

In such a situation, the townspeople are even more disgusted with the heroine.

The heroine is unable to move an inch in the town, and at this time someone set fire to the billboard.

At this time, the heroine's status is weak.

Just when the audience felt sorry for the heroine, the strong heroine made incendiary bombs and threw them into the police station, burning many case files.

The assistant to the former chief of the police department, risking his life, took out the file of the heroine's daughter in the fire, because he fled too late and half of his face was burned.

In such a situation, the heroine once again came to a strong position.

Wu Junru had already seen it completely, and her heart was tightly locked on the heroine.

The assistant of the police chief found the heroine, showed the file to the heroine, and helped analyze the characteristics of the murderer.

Although it was useless, the heroine and the assistant untied the knot, and both of them were light.

Soon after, the assistant locked up a very suspicious man, but unfortunately this man was bragging, he did rape and kill the girl, but not in this town, but in other places.

This hateful man was eventually released by the police because of insufficient evidence.

But everyone knows that there is something wrong with this person, he committed crimes elsewhere, and the small-town police have no right to arrest people across districts.

The heroine and her assistant walked together, and the two of them planned to use their methods to solve the beast.

This is the end of the movie, the heroine and her assistant got in the car, and whether they succeeded in killing the beast in the end, the movie did not come to fruition, and gave an open ending.

The status and role of the heroine are constantly changing, leading the audience to watch the movie in one go.

Wu Junru finished watching the movie, and then said: "Ayu's new movie is really wonderful, I watched it unconsciously, and I think it's better than Li Shengyao's other movies." ”

Chen Kexin nodded, "The script is very well written, Li Shengyao is not a master screenwriter, the contradictory design of "Three Billboards" is really outstanding, and the role positioning is constantly changing, so that people can read it in one go." ”

He paused for a moment, and then said: "Ayu earned it this time, I think this is a top three movie of the year." ”

Wu Junru heard this, "Is it so good?" Can it be compared to "Sweet Honey"?"

"Sweet Honey" was evaluated as the second best movie of 1997 by the "Film Handbook".

This movie has always been the pride of Wu Junru and Chen Kexin.

Chen Kexin nodded, "It's not easy to compare different themes, but I think this movie is very outstanding, and it is the most wonderful movie I've seen so far this year, better than "Palermo Crazy Flowers" and "Philomena". ”

"Palermo Wild Flowers" and "Philomena" are the best films in this festival so far.

Chen Kexin said this, obviously giving a very high evaluation.

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In front of Chen Kexin, in the middle of the first row of the theater, there was a white-haired old man.

The Italian national treasure director Beirutocchi looked at the movie and nodded again and again.

Jiang Wen sat next to Beirutocchi, and when he saw Beirutocchi's appearance, he said, "Mr. Zhuxi, what do you think of this movie?"

Jiang Wen didn't have a new movie released this time, so he came over to be a judge.

Because he and Li Shengyao are both Chinese, in order to avoid reporters saying that he favors his compatriots and has a deal behind him, he has not publicly expressed his opinion on "Three Billboards".

At this time, seeing that Berrutocchi was very interested, he planned to talk a few words.

When Berutocchi heard this, he chuckled and said: "Jiang, as you can see, this movie is very outstanding, a very ordinary story, the plot design makes the story much more exciting, one link after another, I haven't seen such a well-crafted plot for a long time." ”

Jiang Wen was happy for Li Shengyao in his heart, "What about other aspects? ”

"The rhythm of this movie is very good, with constant ups and downs, one up and down, it can make the audience hang their hearts from beginning to end, and if this rhythm is good, the movie is good.

In addition, the cinematography of this movie is very mature, in the two scenes of burning the billboard and the confrontation between the heroine and the police chief, the shots are very good, with the excellent acting skills of the actors, the people are set up, and the atmosphere of the movie is erected.

Whether it's the soundtrack, when it's time to get up, when it's time to slow down, it's all just right.

If I hadn't known Lee for a long time, I would have thought that this movie was made by an old director. ”

Berrutocchi has known Lee for a long time and has seen some of Lee Shengyao's films.

But overall, Lee Shengyao's previous movies, he only liked "Parasite", he thought "Parasite" was interesting enough, and other movies were not very good.

But he didn't expect that watching "Three Billboards" this time made his calm heart a little more excited.

Therefore, he gave high marks.

Jiang Wen heard Beirutocchi's words, and thought of his feelings about watching the movie, which was also rare.

The film is very good everywhere, very mature, not at all like the work of a young director.

I didn't expect this to be Lee Shengyao's work.

After the release of "Parasite" last year, Jiang Wen liked it very much, and he thought that "1937" and "Parasite" were released in a row, and Li Shengyao's ideas were consumed a lot, and Li Shengyao should be repaired for two or three years in the future.

But I didn't expect Li Shengyao to work harder, and this time he made three movies in a row.

This second "Three Billboards" is very good, and it is completely a "Parasite" movie.

Of course, "Parasite" is about class contradictions, while "Three Billboards" is about a story about a vengeful mother.

Overall, the story of "Three Billboards" is not as impactful, which is where "Three Billboards" is lacking.

But anyway, this movie is excellent, and it is a rare good movie.

Li Shengyao's ideas seem to be inexhaustible, and he has continuously produced good movies, and in the entire history of Chinese films, he has done it even when he was in his prime.

Thinking of this, Jiang Wen couldn't help but be a little envious.

He makes a good movie, and it takes several years to retouch it before he can make another good movie.

At this moment, Bellutocchi stood up, "Jiang, let's go, it's time to go watch other movies."

Alas, there are many good films at this festival, but there are very few films that can make people shine, very mature, and excellent, and I hope there will be films like "Three Billboards" next. ”

Jiang Wen nodded, "There is still a lot of hope." ”

He glanced at Berrutocchi and immediately understood that "Three Billboards" would be on the shortlist of the last twenty films.

It's a finalist, maybe you really have a chance to win the award.

Thinking of Lee Shengyao's previous two consecutive "Palme d'Or", and now he has the opportunity to win the award, even a proud person like Jiang Wen admires Lee Shengyao a little.

(End of chapter)