Heal the King

……"died?"

Tao Han couldn't believe it, and turned to look at Xu Yiqing.

But he wondered if he was talking too much, so he shut up.

As a result, as soon as he moved, he heard a low sniffing sound.

Cried?

Tao Han reached out and grabbed Xu Yiqing's hand, and said in a low voice, "Don't cry..."

"...Huh?" Xu Yiqing turned around inexplicably.

"Oh, not you."

Tao Han turned to the other side and saw that Chen Jue was already weeping convulsively.

"Boys are too sentimental." Tao Han said.

"What's wrong with crying, you didn't like crying when you were young?" Xu Yiqing pinched his leg.

"? Where did I cry for me?" Tao Han said.

"I'll count with you after watching." Xu Yiqing said, "Watch the movie first."

Qi Zhi came out of the supermarket, carrying two big bags of food, with a brisk expression on his face.

"Hey, phone."

Qi Zhi's hands were full of things, so he could only stand on the steps and put them down, while taking out the phone, looking at the unfamiliar number, he was puzzled and picked it up.

"Hello?" Qi Zhi put it next to his ear.

"Ah... oh, I am, I... I am his brother, um."

"what happened?"

"Convenience is convenience, but..."

"What did you say……"

The camera gave Qi Zhi a back view, his hands were placed next to his ears and slowly dropped, and then he sat down on the steps.

He got on the long-distance bus, sat in the last row, rubbed his arms with his hands on his chest.

"I was called and told that Dawn died."

"Last night he went to his friend to argue, saying that he wanted to find out who he had sex with that night. Maybe his tone was a bit aggressive, and everyone moved their hands."

"He has an impulsive temper and is so angry that the three of them can't hold it back."

"But I didn't expect to be dragged by my feet and thrown from the window on the fifth floor."

Qi Zhi slammed his head against the car window and closed his eyes.

Tears kept falling from the corners of his eyes and onto his neck, his expression twisted uncontrollably with sadness.

"Falling from the fifth floor, it hurts him so much."

When Qi Zhi arrived at the hospital, he heard crying inside. He stood outside the door and watched for a while, then turned his back.

I want to see Wang Liming for the last time, but I feel subconsciously that it is not him who is on the bed.

"I'm going home now, will he show up in front of me and tell me it's okay."

"We will also eat hot pot at night and discuss the future together."

Qi Zhi walked forward slowly, without any other expression on his face. After accepting and digesting this matter, he gradually calmed down.

Or maybe it just seemed to calm down on the surface.

He stood outside the hospital door, smoking a cigarette, and saw a policeman enter the hospital, and he didn't know if it was related to this case.

"Should I pay attention to the murder case? I should express to the police that I want the murderer to be brought to justice."

"I should go in and see his mother. Since no one is here, it's okay to tell her the truth. I don't care if she wants to beat me, scold me, or even kill me in the end."

"Maybe the law can't punish them, so should I avenge him?"

"Do I want to go to the grave and cry every year on his death day?"

"Will I still cry in 20 years?"

Qi Zhi returned to the long-distance bus again, he was still leaning against the window, but the pained look on his face no longer came, replaced by a kind of confusion.

"I thought a lot in the car when I came, but when I left, I suddenly felt that everything didn't matter. I'm not a long-lived person. I used to just want to be with him, for my own sins, again. Steal to live a little longer."

"But he's gone."

……

Tao Han was a little dazed.

He put his hand to his mouth and gnawed off a small piece of skin without realizing it. He had never discussed with Xu Yiqing that the plot was spoiled, and he always thought that Qi Zhi was the one who ended his life first.

After all, for a role like Wang Liming, most audiences feel that they love and hate, are pitiful, distressed and reluctant. In a sense, Chu Ling's performance is actually very good.

This character is exposed, but it is actually more complicated. His appearance is a disguise, but his inside is fragile.

At least Tao Han is seeing it now.

But compared to Wang Liming, what he wants to see now is Qi Zhi.

Qi Zhi's ending should be doomed at this moment, no matter where he goes, it will be a dead end, it's just how he should go.

Death is the real relief for him...

Above the screen, an exhaust fan let in light, and the blades flashed, flickering.

A familiar feeling came over my face, as if the sunset was stained with blood on any dim afternoon.The camera slowly zoomed down, and the yellowed and blackened wall seemed to be about to burst out with mold.

Qi Zhi stood in front of the mirror in the bathroom, as if he had just taken a shower, his upper body was naked and his hair was wet, and he was carefully shaving.He looked left and right, seemingly admiring every inch of his face.

There is the sound of running water.

He turned his head to the bathtub and sat beside it.

In the next shot, he raised his hand to hold the blade, and a tear slid down the corner of his eye.

"I think it's about time."

"I can't face his parents, and I can't take a knife to kill the person who killed him. I can only live helplessly, so tired."

"I don't want to be so tired, so be it."

Qi Zhi lowered his head, he was obviously hurt when the knife cut his wrist, and shrank his shoulders.But he didn't have any other hesitation, and lowered his hand to the water in front of him.

The director did not photograph the cut marks, but only the blood slowly melting in the water.

Then the camera turned, Qi Zhi was lying on the wall of the bathtub, his body was breathing violently, weeping silently, and then there was a suppressed sob in his throat for a long time.

Those pictures that were once warm passed by, and there was no uniformity in each picture, only Wang Liming in his eyes.

Listen carefully, those seemingly meaningless shouts and broken voices are actually just shouting two words.

"dawn."

"dawn……"

"I'm a little cold." Qi Zhi's last words were articulate, he stopped crying, just folded his arms, his face was pale and bloodless, and he sat with his head down limply, his face was full of tears, "I'm here, dawn."

After he said that, with all his strength, he plunged into the water.

The screen has now turned dark.

Tao Han's hand had been held tightly by Xu Yiqing at some point, he was extremely depressed and uncomfortable by Xu Yiqing's last performance, his throat was choked and his scalp was numb.

After seeing the darkness, there is an indescribable relief.

"Is it over..." Tao Han asked in a low voice.

As soon as he finished speaking, the moment his eyelids opened suddenly.

POV shot with the ceiling above.Then, the camera turned, and it was Qi Zhi lying pale on the bed.

He looked at the ceiling motionless, the picture seemed forbidden, a fly flew from above, spun around twice, and landed on Qi Zhi's forehead.

Qi Zhi didn't even chase him away, and continued this action with a blank expression.

Until he heard the sound of the door opening.

Only then did Qi Zhi raise his hand to drive away the flies in front of him. The person who came in held the thermos bottle, turned his back and poured a glass of water from the thermos bottle, then turned around again, and saw Qi Zhi was already looking out the window.

"Son?" Qi's mother trotted over with water, "Son, are you awake, do you drink water? What happened to you, how did you commit suicide, do you know how much effort the doctor spent to revive you? You know you Almost died?"

Qi Zhi blinked, but didn't speak.

"Why did you have this disease, why didn't you tell me?" Mother Qi began to sit by his bed and cry as she spoke, "Now Holme knows it too, go back and tell everyone that you have this disease The whole village knows about it, and they all know that you will not be able to marry a wife..."

"Why did you save me?" Qi Zhi asked.

"What did you say, you almost died!" Mother Qi cried, "What should I do? What should I do if you die..."

Qi Zhi closed his eyes facing the window.

He was breathing evenly and calmly, as if he had fallen asleep. The camera slowly zoomed out, out of the window, into a hazy sky.

The ethereal female voice sang the first English lyrics, and the subtitles began to roll out.

No one moved, no one cried, no one laughed, and no one clapped their hands. Everyone seemed to be sitting in their seats with their heads raised, watching the subtitles scrolling upwards on the big screen in a tacit understanding.

"It's over." Xu Yiqing leaned over to Tao Han and said softly.

"Brother..." Tao Han's throat was dry, he yelled with difficulty, and turned to look at Xu Yiqing.He didn't know what to say or what to do at the moment, and he couldn't even feel his current mood.

"Brother..." So Tao Han called out again.

Someone behind started clapping, and the movie theater was mobilized, and everyone started applauding one after another.Tao Han also thumped twice, and felt his heart throbbing again, and wanted to cry so much.

"It's okay." Xu Yiqing held his hand, "I'm going to go to the post-screening interview later...you sit here and wait for me."

"Okay." Tao Han nodded.

Xu Yiqing got out from the seat next to her, and returned to the front row where the director and the main creator were.Tao Han turned his head, only to see that Chen Jue's eyes were swollen from crying.

Tao Han sighed, and took out a piece of paper for him: "As for you."

"It's so uncomfortable." Chen Jue twitched, "Ms. Xu's acting is so good, woo woo woo..."

"En." Tao Han nodded, "Yes."

After all the subtitles were screened, Tao Han had almost digested it.

The lights above were turned on, and the whole theater was presented to everyone.After the screening, the press conference started. The host hosted the conference in English. Tao Han had no difficulty listening. After listening to him briefly introduce the film, he began to invite the main creators to come on stage.

Xu Yiqing and Chu Ling stood in the middle, followed by the director and producer. The host asked them questions one by one according to the process, and asked Xu Yiqing, asking: "It is said that there are many scenes in the movie. Both of your leading actors don't know each other's roles, and the director will add scenes temporarily, will this not affect your performance?"

Xu Yiqing took the microphone, nodded slightly, and replied in his fairly standard English: "Actually, the ending of the scene you watched just now was a temporary scene. When I was acting, I thought death was everything. The end, but the director obviously dealt with it more coldly and cruelly."

"Indeed." The host said, "Since we talk about indifference and cruelty, the emotions expressed in the film are actually very rich, but as we all know, some issues in the play are not mainstream for your cultural traditions. What do you think?"

"Existence is reasonable." Xu Yiqing looked at him and said, "The contradictions and conflicts in the movie are amplified to highlight some of the viewpoints."

"Such as homosexuality?" A reporter in the audience asked, "What do you think about homosexuality?"

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