Chapter 988 "Ethan's Small Town Mystery" (Part 2)

Qin Jue's eyebrows jumped.

The close-up of his daughter's face filled the entire screen of the screening room. This happy expression that was almost trance evoked Qin Jue's long-lost memories. She remained silent, and the corners of her mouth were stretched straight.

The movie continued to play, and doubts and clues were thrown out in an orderly manner. As the main line of the whole work, it attracted the audience's attention and curiosity.

The style of the picture became more and more bizarre. There was no blood and visual impact common in Western films, but it was gradually filled with a mysterious sense of suffocation. Depression and terror were like dry ice sprayed quietly over the soles of the feet. When I noticed it, my ankles were tightly grasped by cold hands.

Another shot, the mother [——], her voice was sharp and scolding [——], the face hidden in the shadows was like a whirlpool, with ghost hands and grinning mouths stretched out.

The daughter's face was completely opposite. She was still smiling, even if the nosebleed was flowing down and hitting the school uniform skirt, she was still smiling.

There was even a glow of pity in her eyes, like an angel doll who never had negative emotions. In the end, the mother was tired of beating and scolding, and she trembled when she met those eyes, and then she was even more furious, so angry that she wanted to collapse.

"Go back!" The mother was angry and afraid, "Go back quickly!"

The daughter blinked her clean eyes, which were particularly inconsistent at this moment, and responded obediently with bruises and nosebleeds on her cheeks, and returned to the room obediently.

The camera returned to the police in Country A, Qin Jue folded his arms and exhaled lightly.

She had guessed the ending.

When an extremely kind person is only willing to dedicate this "kindness" to a single individual, it is hard to say whether this kindness is still kindness.

Just like Lin's father in "The Empty Monument".

Even though he was mentally prepared, Qin Jue still frowned fiercely when the biggest reversal came.

Memories again, still that halfway up the mountain, still that group of village hooligans with lewd smiles, still the daughter wrapped in a headscarf secretly watching from behind the tree.

The young girl came out.

She was confused, with her innocent courage and childish understanding, step by step from the sun into the shadows of the mountains and the crowd.

The mother, who had been pursing her lips, was in disbelief, and her eyes were almost popped.

"You're leaving?! Go home!" She screamed in collapse.

The daughter looked at her mother, then looked up at the group of men.

"Don't bully my mother." She said softly, with her understanding and courage that made her mother's reason collapse, "You can bully me, but don't bully my mother."

The hoarse and bloody cry of a peasant woman came from the halfway up the mountain.

The "enemies" who dominated the power really agreed to the exchange of "hostages". They smiled and asked the mother to go down the mountain quickly and "enjoy the life she exchanged for". The camera was lowered, as if the camera was installed on a fast-moving snake. The only thing in the picture was the mother's rolling and crawling footsteps.

She rushed down the mountain, rushed home, and rushed into the dirty backyard to pull out the broken-toothed axe from the firewood pile.

The familiar distorted picture appeared, the daughter's ignorant eyes, the mother's crazy eyes, the daughter's tearful eyes, the mother's fixed eyes, the daughter's distracted eyes, and the mother's bloodshot eyes.

The camera pulled away, the mother was hunched over, and the blade of the axe was curled.

The daughter with messy brown hair and a look of embarrassment was wearing the only coat that barely covered her body. She sat on the side, with a dull expression and dull eyes. It was not until the mother covered in blood turned around that she looked at her blankly and grinned.

Pah!

Suddenly, the mother put down the axe and slapped her daughter fiercely.

"Vile thing!" She cried and cursed hysterically, "Bastard! Slut!"

At the end of the curse, only the cry of collapse was left.

The last purity she had guarded with all her heart was also shattered. She despised her daughter just as she despised herself, and she hated her daughter just as she hated herself.

The camera was aimed at her daughter whose cheek was swollen after being beaten.

In a few seconds, her expression of grievance and confusion gradually disappeared, and gradually turned into self-deceiving happiness.

That creepy smile appeared on her daughter's face for the first time.

Ah.

It's so painful.

It's so uncomfortable.

I obviously helped my mother...

I obviously...why...

The new pain and harsh insults from her mother were like a clown mask, welding the smile to the girl's face.

Ah, ah.

Don't cry.

Don't feel pain.

It's my mother who is praising you.

It must be my mother who is praising you.

"You are my hero."

The girl emphasized to herself over and over again.

You are the hero who saved my mother.

This twisted, self-touching smile slowly enlarged on the screen, and when it shrank again, the bloody memories ended, and the picture showed the smiling face of the daughter in a school uniform skirt.

She smiled, and her blue eyes were as clean as a holy little angel.

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In the same year that "Ethan's Mystery" was released, the role of the daughter was selected as one of the "Top Ten 'Bad Children' Movie Characters of the Year" selected by the well-known magazine "Film Focus" in Country A.

Unlike those child characters who are born evil, the daughter played by Tang Nuo is an extremely evil created by acquired factors.

The film is still playing, and the development is not what Qin Jue expected. It was the daughter who witnessed Bert harassing her mother and sneaked into his house one night.

How kind the child's brain circuit is.

Last time, she stood up to be bullied on behalf of her mother, but in the end her mother beat and scolded her, and did not praise her for being sensible.

So, this behavior should be wrong.

So what is right?

The girl blinked her ignorant eyes again and again, remembering the scene of her mother raising the hatchet and slashing.

She understood.

It turns out that it is not enough to suffer for her mother, she has to pick up the knife.

As for why...

She is her mother's hero.

She loves her mother, she wants to protect her.

Even if [——], it is because her mother loves her, and those are all proof of her mother's love.

So she should also love her mother.

The girl put on her raincoat inside out, [——].

Knock knock knock——.

Only a young back can be seen in the picture.

Ah, ah.

The daughter repeated to herself, this is right, you love her, you have to protect her.

Until the police from Country A collected enough evidence and came to the door, the daughter's face was always smiling.

She lived in the world she wove, and lived so beautifully.

Qin Jue closed her eyes only after the lights in the theater were brightened and all the subtitles were finished.

Her impressions of watching the movie can be summarized into two points:

There is a reason why this movie won the award.

There is a reason why this movie was banned.

The director of "Ethan's Town Mystery" explored the moral shame and human oppression in Longzhou culture in this film. The mother who was overwhelmed by the chastity arch, the daughter who grew up in a distorted love and violence environment, and had to brainwash herself "This is all my mother's love" and "Because I am my mother's hero" to struggle to survive, these two typical characters embody some of the remaining feudal dregs vividly.

With such a theme, plus the fact that the director himself is an A countryman with Longguo ancestry but born in Azhou, and the plot spans two countries, even if Longzhou introduces this movie, it is possible that someone with ulterior motives will lead the rhythm in a direction other than culture and art, causing many unnecessary disputes. It is not difficult to understand why "Ethan's Town Mystery" was banned in the entire Longzhou.

The footsteps of the cleaning staff came, Qin Jue bowed his head slightly, tapped his eyebrows, and got up and left his seat.

After leaving the cinema, the cold air in the screening room seemed to still cling to the surface of her clothes. Qin Jue shook her shoulders to get rid of the chill that was actually unrelated to the air conditioner.

The movie poster appeared in front of her, and Tang Nuo smiled on it.

Qin Jue had a heavy feeling in his chest.

She wanted to talk about life with the director of "Ethan's Small Town Mystery".

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Original script, purely fictional, without prototype.

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