The movie begins.
Incandescent lights sizzled overhead.
Papaya sat in a chair with her head held high, a wet towel covering her face, and whimpering in pain.
Taking the towel off with one hand, the man asked him, "Tell me, have you been in touch with Lian Lian long ago?"
Papaya panted for a while and shook her head.
"Where did she run off to?"
Papaya still shook his head.
"Who else knows about this?"
"...Only me." Papaya stared at the ceiling above her head in a blur, then turned her eyes to him, "Only me."
"That's good." The other party smiled and put the towel on his face again.
The air is getting less and less, the water in the nostrils is getting more and more, the papaya is struggling as if drowning, and when he is on the verge of death, his short life appears in front of his eyes.
Spring is blooming, and the figure of a young girl seems to be hazy with a layer of light, walking towards him with a smile.
"Angel..." he murmured inwardly.
The girl walked towards him slowly, the halo on her body gradually disappeared, turning into a gray old dress, she suddenly slapped him on the face, and then grabbed his collar and roared: "Damn fat! Assume!"
Papaya opened his eyes, the white flag lamp and the vicious man disappeared, and only a body of fat was left, he said with a trembling smile; "Sister..."
"How do you say it?" Shi Zhongtang sat in the audience, touching his chin with his right hand, like a picky interviewer, and said regretfully, "Your performance failed this time."
"...Why do you say that?" Ning Ning was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at him.
"Look." Shi Zhongtang pointed at the screen with his chin.
On the screen, Ning Ning went through the withdrawal procedures by herself, then walked into a restaurant, and asked anxiously, "Are you recruiting people here?"
The greasy dishes were put into the sink and came out clean. A pair of tender hands went into the sink and came out full of frostbite.
At the end of the month, these chilblain-covered hands held a few crumpled banknotes and handed them to Papaya.
"Buy new clothes, and new stationery." Ningning said to Papaya with a tired face, "Don't let your schoolmates laugh at you, saying that you are a child who has no father, no mother, and no one cares."
Papaya looked at her hand and refused to take the money for a long time.
"You clearly know that there is a problem with the script in your hand, especially the fungus people have problems, why do you still play it according to it?" In the audience, Shi Zhongtang looked at Ning Ning sincerely and asked, "It's because Is it easier to act?"
Ning Ning's face was red and her ears were red, and her eyes showed the excitement of being misunderstood: "No..."
"Why is that?" Shi Zhongtang asked, turning his eyes to the screen.
Pei Xuan's face appeared on the screen, with gold-rimmed glasses and gentleness, sitting across from the sofa, handed a contract to Papaya.
"Is it because of him?" Shi Zhongtang asked.
Ning Ning pursed her lips and put her hands on her knees, her fingers tightened.
Pei Xuan's face still appeared on the screen, but the person sitting opposite was replaced by Ning Ning, and another contract was handed over.
"Ning Ning, look." Shi Zhongtang put his arms around her shoulders and said to her with a smile, "A movie takes about an hour and a half, and all we see are edited lives, but real life is not so short. When you're in a movie, when you become someone else, you can actually do a lot of things, try a lot of things that you don't usually dare to do or don't do well..."
"...How can I do this?" Ning Ning whispered, "How can I tamper with other people's lives."
"So it is." Shi Zhongtang said, this time it was no longer in a questioning tone, but a positive tone. He smiled and said to Ning Ning, "You are afraid."
"Shouldn't I be afraid?" Ning Ning asked him back.
"Who are you afraid of? Pei Xuan? He is really scary. You may lose against him, but you can't even have the courage to fight against him." Shi Zhongtang looked at the screen, "Look at what you have done. "
Ning Ning bounced from the seat, but was forcibly pressed back by Shi Zhongtang.
The feeling of being forced to watch the movie is so painful, just like those bad movies she played in the past, shame, remorse, and extremely disappointed with herself...
"Because I was too scared, so this time you acted constrainedly, whether Papaya or even Lotus, you have a feeling of being played by you." Shi Zhongtang shook his head, "It's just resignation."
Ning Ning opened her mouth, but found that she couldn't refute him. No matter how much quibble, there was no real movie convincing. On the screen, the fungus and Lian Lian she played appeared alternately, their expressions and actions even language habits They are all different, but the sadness between the eyebrows is exactly the same.
They even keep doing the same thing... obedience.
"Obey mother, obey brother, obey Pei Xuan, obey fate." Shi Zhongtang shook his head, "I didn't even resist once, do you think it's normal?"
Certainly not normal.
It is natural to obey my mother, because my mother is the biggest in the family, and she is also in charge of money.
But after her mother's accident, she became the biggest in the family, managing money and papaya.
In this case, she can choose to take revenge on this little fat man, or she can choose to put aside her previous suspicions and work together. The most impossible thing to do is to continue to work hard and treat herself as his slave.
This is not a dog blood movie, it is reality, it is a person's real life, which carries a person's joys, sorrows, love, hatred and hatred, as well as the most real and even the most selfish thoughts.
Ning Ning didn't think about it carefully at all.
Looking back, she found that she was just acting according to Lian Lian's memoirs, acting according to the script, and acting according to the characters.
The script and characters are all fake.
"Ning Ning, the script is not important. In the movie theater of life, no one will call you ng, no one will blame you for wasting film, you don't have to be so nervous every time, and you don't have to be too afraid of making mistakes." Shi Zhongtang gently stroked Ning Ning's cheek , "Although drama is like life, life is like a drama, but a scene has a fixed scene, fixed characters, fixed beginning and fixed ending, life is different, there are infinite possibilities, waiting for you to try! You can be afraid! But you can't stand still Don't go ahead, you must have the courage to try!"
"Boom", these words hit Ning Ning's shell like a hammer, smashed the shell, and the fragments fell to the ground. The first piece was called timidity, the second piece was called forward and backward, and the third piece was called too much. Be cautious, although there is still a lot of shell left, but she is now at least starting to regret her performance in this movie.
Ning Ning sighed: "Why didn't you tell me this earlier, if you had told me earlier..."
Her eyes turned to the opposite movie screen. At the end of the story, the picture returned to the beginning. Under the white flag, a wet towel was placed on Papaya's face. This time, he gradually stopped struggling...
"It's never too late to change." Shi Zhongtang smiled at her.
Ning Ning wanted to laugh too, but she couldn't.
Is it really never too late
"...It's too late." Ning Ning murmured, "If the fungus chooses to become Lianlian in the end, then she and Pei Xuan are all the same. She knows who I am, and Pei Xuan also knows who I am."
Speaking of this, Ning Ning couldn't help turning his head to look at the door of the cinema.
"... Maybe when I go out from here, someone is waiting for me outside." Ning Ning murmured.
as she said.
At the gate of the Life Cinema, the night is silent, without stars or moon.
A car was parked in front of the door, because it was too dark to see what was inside, and only a vague figure could be seen, sitting in the main driver, looking in the direction of the door.