Shen Yu knew the name Zhong Simo probably earlier than others imagined.
At that time, he had just been admitted to the film school in a daze. At the age of seventeen, he hadn't figured out what he was going to do in the future, so he went to class and studied with Daliu every day. Until a film appreciation class, the instructor played an independent film for them as an extracurricular extension.
The story told by the movie Ome takes place in a small western town that is always gray in tone. At the beginning of the film, the camera goes from dark to bright, stretches along the potholed road, and stops on a pair of classic Nike sneakers.
The young support teacher got off the long-distance bus with three large suitcases. He ignored the brand-name sports shoes that had been stepped on several times by the passengers in the bus. He looked around and smiled with eight teeth. He came to this small town with dreams and enthusiasm, exuding a light that was incompatible with it.
Soon, the young man settled down in a junior high school that he had contacted in advance, and taught mathematics to the junior three children here.
The children call him Mr. Zhou, listen to stories around him in their spare time, and learn how to play basketball from him. The young man feels that he is a successful teacher and it is worthwhile to come.
It's a pity that there is a taciturn little girl in the class who never talks to him, and doesn't play around with her classmates. The young man paid attention. Once, when a little girl was handing in her homework alone, he accidentally found bruised and purple marks of abuse on her arm.
The kind-hearted young man kept silent. He decided to go to the little girl's house to see what happened, but came across the scene where the little girl's stepfather kept beating her by grabbing her hair.
The young man rushed in, trying to stop his stepfather, but the other party became more and more aggressive. Just when the young man lost, the little girl picked up the Buddha statue on the table and smashed it down heavily. The bright red blood stained the gray man. The small town takes on an ominous color
The shock that this movie brought to Shen Yu was like the discovery that the earth is not the center of the universe for the first time in a long time ago. He never thought that movies could be expressed in such a form, so absurd and realistic, instead of a group of handsome men and women crying on the screen.
At the end of the film, when everything ended with a rare heavy snow, Shen Yu was still immersed in the desperate atmosphere and couldn't wake up.
"There has been no other way, Mr. Zhou, hehehe, hehehe"
"This is the first work of your brother Zhong Simo from the director department. It was released not long ago. He is only one year older than you," said the old professor with gold-rimmed glasses and white hair tied into a strict and elegant bun on the podium. Some proudly said, "Film is a great art. Within five years, there will be a place for him in the Chinese film industry."
Zhong Simo became famous faster than the old professor predicted, which may be the reason why the entire Chinese film industry fell into a downturn that year. With the sudden emergence of Zhong Simo as a green plum, he swept away the awards of major film festivals, and its leading actor Jin Ke became a famous actress. The youngest actress in history. Since then, Zhong Simo's name has become a myth in the entertainment industry for ten years.
And Shen Yu, who was encouraged by that class and found a direction to work hard, is struggling on the set of third-tier web dramas ten years later.
Shen Yu laughed at himself and shook his head, got up and planned to go back to the shooting site to stand by, but before going out, he still folded a few pieces of A4 paper and put them carefully in his bag.