I Forged the Myth of the Old Ones

She straightened her legs, grasped the armrest of the sofa tightly with her hands, her eyes were wide open, she looked like a drowning person, her face was livid.

Until, the camera is pulled out of the water, it is the protagonist's face, and he is pulling the camera's main perspective, dragging it up to the water.

For the first time, Ms. Merritt thought the man was so handsome.

She found that it was the heroine Amber who was pulled up.

There were only shipwrecks around, and those unfortunate people couldn't even float their bodies on the water. Amber spit out a lot of sea water, and she lay on the board, her whole body was wet.

Ms. Merritt noticed that her body, which had been scorched black from using that prayer earlier, had recovered. The moonlight fell on the girl's body, and her whole body was shining brightly.

French movies pay great attention to expressing the youthful beauty of young girls, but in the current scene, there is a messy sea, a huge black shadow that will appear at some time, and the cold moonlight. Among them, the pure and flawless girl is enough A scene that touches the heart of any viewer.

To Ms. Merritt's relief, the director did not immediately arrange an emotional scene between the hero and the heroine like some traditional movies. The two floated on the sea like survivors, intoxicated by the illusion reflected in the matches. After drying the clothes, Amber hugged the dog and fell asleep, and the male lead just stood aside in a gentlemanly manner.

Some directors like the drawbridge effect. Specifically, there must be a sex scene before a war, or there must be a kiss scene after a crisis. Ms. Merritt believes that, to put it bluntly, it means that they don’t know how to portray emotions step by step, and they can only be portrayed in this way. Forcibly match two people.

But now, in the interaction between Amber and the male protagonist, what Ms. Merritt sees is a picture of a bewildered girl and a persistent mercenary. The two help each other and overcome difficulties together.

Floating on the sea makes people feel uneasy, but the dog can still fish, two people and a dog are warming up on the wooden board, the girl eats the food that is not "elegant" for the first time, the excitement and excitement after meeting the island, on the beach The interaction on the Internet, this episode makes people feel calm.

Although there is still a long and dangerous journey ahead, although they are now on an isolated island and struggling to even survive, at least for now, the two of them don't have to worry about anything else, just being with each other.

Ms. Merritt is very familiar with this feeling. After thinking for a while, she found that this is the daily portrayal that the films of the island country are very good at. Many films of the island country are different from European and American movies. The daily life of the protagonist and the people around him does not make people feel boring and boring. Instead, the characters are enriched through such little things.

Many literary and artistic films in Europe and the United States are really literary and artistic, the kind that can make people fall asleep, all kinds of neon scenes, montages, stream of consciousness, actors with slumped faces, all arouse everyone's sleep nerves.

When Ms. Merritt saw this episode, she couldn't help feeling a sense of melancholy.

Because Amber is a girl who has been responsible since she was born, and she may have grown up according to the family's plan since she was a child, without her own freedom.

And now, without a doubt, the freest time of her life.

Ms. Merritt is very clear about how rare this kind of time is, because she knows that behind the story, they will continue to embark on a journey and finally arrive at their destination. The current freedom and comfort are just a momentary dream, and they will always wake up.

This feeling of feeling that the good times are fleeting is like a touch of wine, which just goes down the throat and comes back to the heart.

The so-called sorrow of things may be such an emotion.

Even Ms. Merritt felt a sense of loss when she saw that the protagonist found the pirate's camp and was able to snatch the pirate ship and continue to the destination.

There is no doubt that her heart has been bound by the characters in the story and she is completely immersed in it.

Drifting at sea, arriving at Changfeng Island, pretending to be brothers and sisters living on the island, teasing the little girl, Amber said that she wanted to give up her responsibilities and stay here as an ordinary girl. This story hit Ms. Merritt's heart accurately , she felt that this was the growth plot she wanted, where warmth and healing, literature and art coexisted.

Even looking at Lu Jian, he felt a little delicate.

Who hasn't been a little girly yet?

If the story ended here, Ms. Merritt's reason told her, it would be imperfect.

But she wanted the story to end there.

However, the director is definitely unwilling to let the story end like this, and a turning point has appeared.

===377. Sorrow of Parting===

The bandage man escaped and came to this island. As an assassin with an official secret order, he issued a wanted order in the island's government office.

The protagonist and Amber also heard the arrest warrant, and they knew that a peaceful life would always be broken like this.

The protagonist enters the yamen alone, intending to kill the bandage man, and then take Amber away.

Ms. Merritt drained her glass.

She watched the protagonist and the opponent fight intently, killing the bandaged man.

Then, Ms. Merritt saw the monster.

From a rotten coin, the hideous monster at the beginning of the film appears in the house.

These monsters can corrode and infect everything. Those who fell on the ground were assimilated into monsters while screaming in pain. Even the seemingly invincible dog couldn't move freely among the spreading black mist. .

"Oh no."

Seeing this, Ms. Merritt has already guessed the next plot.

She saw the black mist engulfing the island, alienating the people on the island into twisted monsters, she saw the protagonist and the dog running away, taking the girl and her mother with her, she saw Amber witnessing all this, making her own s Choice.

Pale flames ignited, unexpectedly giving Ms. Merritt a divine aspect.

Seeing the mixed black flames burning up all the filth, and the girl standing in the flowing flames, Ms. Merritt's mind also flashed the daily life of the two people before.

She also fell into conflict for a while.

This kind of contradiction is not a tit-for-tat contradiction between the two factions in the plot, but a contradiction about the girl's choice, whether to give up her responsibility and wander the world, or stick to her responsibility and give up her freedom.

In the eyes of the French who advocate freedom, living in seclusion is the best choice. Anyway, as long as the white flag is raised, everything will be solved.

But the unfolding of the plot made Ms. Merritt feel that if she didn't protect such a world, more tragedies would be born.

These tragedies are not just numbers, but presented in front of my eyes.

Those twisted and terrifying monsters can only be resisted by relying on witches.

And Ms. Merritt knew that Amber had made her choice.

She chose the world.

Ms. Merritt poured another glass of wine, which she drank.

She rarely gets drunk, but now, she would like to be a little drunk, think a little less, and just follow the plot of the movie.

Even the huge blooming cherry trees and the continuous red torii gates on Wajima made Ms. Merritt unable to arouse her interest.

She was full of melancholy, the melancholy of parting.

For Ms. Merritt, the ten-minute plot of Hejima Taisha was a gradual and excessive plot.

Through the views of Miko and Amber from the people I met, I gradually built an answer that she couldn't refuse.

That's where Amber stays for the best.

It is precisely because of this helplessness that Ms. Merritt feels a deeper sadness.

If one thing is wrong, then the character will give up something good by doing it, and it will make people feel angry, remorse, and unwilling.

But when this matter is right, it can only make people feel the impermanence of fate and sigh the helplessness of life.

All of this reached its peak when Amber hit the bull's-eye with ten arrows in a row at the same time during the competition.

Both the protagonist and the audience already know that the ending is doomed, Amber will go to the attic, and the protagonist will only continue to wander in the sea.

Ms. Merritt is curiously haunted by an inexpressible melancholy that has not resonated with her so strongly in the past, but now, as a seasoned film critic, she mourns for the film. And lament.

Before the ceremony, Amber came to the protagonist's house. The conversation between the two was very ordinary, as if they would meet again tomorrow, as if they could continue to be together in the future.

Finally, Amber tells the protagonist that the moonlight will be beautiful tonight.

As soon as the background music of the piano tightened, all the emotions reached a high point at this time.

Ms. Merritt wept.

She saw the flames at the ceremony, the people laughing and laughing, and the world that was about to remain peaceful.

It was so beautiful, but she always felt that she had lost something.

"It is indeed a touching film."

Ms. Merritt has to admit that this movie has achieved the ultimate in the ambiguous and sad atmosphere, and the plot itself is not smooth, with a degree of relaxation. The pure, gentle, kind, and awe-inspiring girl has been deeply embedded in Ms. Merritt's heart.

Ms. Merritt relaxed a little, trying to gather her thoughts, as the cast would be next, but couldn't.

Picking up the wine bottle, she was about to pour a glass of wine to calm down a little, but the screen suddenly lit up again.

Ms. Merritt looked over.

She saw that the protagonist was about to pack up his things and leave, but staring at the attic, he had another wave of emotions.

He came to the main hall, the blocked location, turned into smoke with the mask he got from the bandage man, and sneaked into it.

The courtyard was supposed to be used for retired witches, but it was empty.

Only the cold moonlight shines.

The protagonist felt something was wrong, he entered the hall, saw a row of shelves in the dark, and saw those neatly placed urns.

Ms. Merritt wondered why it was necessary to show these things now. It would be too superfluous to say that the two people were separated from each other and could never see each other again.

Her curiosity became more and more intense as the protagonist explored. When the protagonist left the courtyard where the retired witch supposedly lived and found that no one had lived there for many years, Ms. Merritt's heart skipped a beat.

She thought of something not so good.

But there is still hope for everything.

Ms. Merritt sat up straight, and she saw the protagonist finally headed for the attic.

Suddenly, Ms. Merritt seemed to smell a burning smell.

It's like the stench of animals after being burned by flames.

There were scorched marks everywhere on the mottled attic, and on the door, the heavy lock announced the fact that this place could not be opened.

If this can't be opened

Ms. Merritt's heart sank.

She followed the protagonist into the attic, saw the mess on the first floor, saw the blood on the second floor, and then came to the third floor.

In the initial conception, Ms. Merritt thought that Amber should be wearing gorgeous clothes, sitting upright in the attic with bright and clean windows, shooting flaming arrows dignifiedly but resolutely, to protect the world.

But when Ms. Merritt saw Amber, she couldn't help covering her mouth.

===378. She broke the defense===

What a tragedy that was.

That is the state of being burned alive, without mercy, without redemption, the death of a human being in pure despair.

Each image fell like a knife on Ms. Merritt's heart.