Geeky

Balaam took a drag on his cigarette and looked down at the herd of deer walking and grazing on the grass.

He changed into a midnight dress, which was close to the clean and modern style that he wears on weekdays, but the cuffs were trimmed with a wide circle of Alencon lace, and the floral pattern on it was emitting a pearly luster.He only wears a silver ring on his left hand - "Eye of Venus". Two eyes are ingeniously carved on the thin ring body, one is slyly closed like a cat, and the other is inlaid An emerald gemstone that changes shades with the light.

He exhaled slowly, and the soft white smoke escaped from his slightly parted thin lips.

The cigarette quietly burned out silvery ashes. There was no ashtray, so he held out his hand and lit the ashes on a tulip at hand.

The golden tulips in the vase will be replaced every once in a while.

A manservant came to the balcony here, approached Balan, and whispered something behind him.

Balan looked down - on the cream-white fence, next to the vase with a few tulips in it, there was a row of cigarette cases with flower patterns.Each cigarette case was opened, revealing colorful cigarette butts, and a violet flower cigarette that had been lightly smoked for two puffs.

These cartons of cigarettes of different brands have been arranged according to taste many times.

The last three boxes are hand-carved silver boxes with the coat of arms of the Sisera family engraved on them... Undoubtedly, the flower cigarettes made by Balan’s private smoker have the best taste, like a tired cloud stretching in the mouth, And the fragrance is elegant and light, sometimes it seems to be absent, and it is more distant and long-lasting, which makes people have a long aftertaste.

Balan put the cigarettes in his hand on the last silver box, his eyes rested on the silver box for a while, then he took a soft carton of cigarettes on one side, and stuffed them into the inner pocket of his dress.

He turned and left the balcony.

Balaam's figure swept across the corridor like a black wing, his shoulders barely moving as he walked, like a shadow pushed by an invisible wind.Another man in a black dress came across the corridor. Baran stopped at the corner and greeted:

"Louis...you are still here, just in time, having afternoon tea together."

"...wouldn't it be inappropriate?"

"Just right."

Expressing relief, Balaam took out his right hand and patted Louis on the back, leading him two steps forward, then withdrew his hand, took the lead and walked forward, stopped in front of a room door, and opened——

The lush greenery comes into view, a dozen mahogany chairs and small tea tables with high feet are placed in an oval circle, and the wooden cabinets on the opposite wall are placed on split wooden stakes, which are planted with tender succulents and colorful Little mushroom, when you open the door of the cabinet below, you will see white tulips planted all over the cabinet. It looks like you suddenly opened the canvas to reveal a realistic pastoral oil painting. Fireflies will fly out of it.The back of the chair is full of indoor potted plants, scattered high and low, like a sparse and dense green wall, dotted with some flowers - white lilies and yellow roses in silver vases.The reversed lily petals are lingering like water waves, and the stamens are azure after being washed by water; while the spherical rose flowers only spread out one or two circles of petals, and the petals have a wonderful color of gold with orange powder, and there is a A lovely languor.

Half-height bookshelves and a "geometric plant curtain" divide the afternoon tea room into two...

"...We don't take photos, we rarely take photos, but we ask the painter in the family to paint a portrait every year." The female blood asked, "Do you have a portrait?"

"No."

There is only a small coffee table with high legs between the seats of Su Shi and the female blood race.

"That would be a pity. You should have a portrait." Her large, dark, grape-like eyes, shadowed by black lace over them, gave her a mysterious allure that made her She always maintains the beauty created by the distance, but her shoulders leaning forward and her pale hands protruding forward, resting on the tea table, make her staring look sincere, "A lovely person like you should have a Portraits, otherwise it will be a great loss to future generations!"

"thanks,"

Su Shi didn't take such compliments very seriously. Although Mino's facial features were three-dimensional and his eyebrows were pure, he was just like the sun and leaves in nature. It seemed to make people feel comfortable, but there was nothing special about it that made people unforgettable at a glance. .Unlike Balaam, who is full of noisy beauty.

"I've had some pretty good pictures, and I look better than I do."

Tina smiled slightly and shook her head lightly: "My dear, the meanings of portraits and photos are different, don't easily leave your beauty on photos that can be copied into tens of thousands of copies... no matter how lifelike it is No counterfeit can shake the unique status of a masterpiece, and no matter how beautiful the photos are, they are always cheap. Because there are too many and too real, eternal beauty is a kind of 'distorted beauty' closest to beauty, oil painting The most precious thing is that it is always just a simulation, no matter how realistic it is, it can never reach the level of a photo. When you are captured on an oil painting, there is a veil between people and you, and 'distortion' is like Hide-and-seek, and good painters are best at tempting people to guess, when people keep guessing your beauty, keep approaching your beauty, but never reach the end...you become eternal."

Su Shi seriously thought about it. The aesthetics mentioned by the female blood race is actually a "hidden".

For example, in "Blood Manor", the servant Bates was imprisoned for theft for his wife. This kind of past is actually very plain and too "little people".Everyone may think that this is a good man, or that he is a fool, but no matter if he is a good man or a fool, no one will have the patience to understand the past of an old man who is not handsome, middle-aged and lame, but The screenwriter very cleverly let Bates "hide" his past, and the character's character has advanced to another level, because it is no longer a kind of kindness that may be impulsive, but a kind of perseverance .Especially when people find out that his wife is so miserable, but he still does not hesitate to lose his job to protect her, his kindness has hardness and breadth.Without this "hiding", Bates easily believed in his wife's nonsense, gave her all the property for nothing but was still threatened, and could not even give happiness to the beloved woman... the audience would probably be regarded as a useless fool.But with this "hiding", the audience understands him better, gets closer to him, and will only love him more.

In fact, many Marvel movies, such as "The Avengers" or "Thor", also have "hidden".Many people think that Marvel movies are popcorn movies, only fighting, but in addition to the huge and unique setting, it also takes care of plot lovers.It will use simple plots to spread out complex settings to reduce the difficulty of understanding the first-class world settings, and bring more refined plots in the quick dialogues of the characters-such as the interesting stories of Loki and Sol when they were young. For audiences with imagination, this is a key to a magnificent garden, while for other audiences, a few words are just a few words.

But like the "hidden" in "The Grandmaster", Su Shi doesn't appreciate it a bit. This kind of "hidden" is a bit repulsive, like a frosted glass between the audience and the movie. It requires you, wants To understand this movie, you must watch it more than twice.

If you "hidden" too deeply, if you "hidden" too much, the fewer people who understand it, the less popular this work will become.

But what Su Shi hopes to achieve is not just the perfection of the film, but that it can also be "complete" in the hearts of the audience.If the deeper "beauty" is destined to be understood by only a few people, then will there be a parabola in the aesthetic effect that "Tibetan" can achieve?At first, like "Blood Manor", the more "hidden" is, the more "beauty" resonance can be aroused in general, but after "hidden" to a certain depth, due to the sharp decrease in the number of people who can understand, the film's The group feeling that can be stimulated begins to decrease, and at a certain point, the effect achieved by "Zang" can arouse the most resonance?

... But art is not mathematics after all.

Su Shi said: "But who can ensure that a portrait always properly conveys the 'beauty' of the characters? If there is only one masterpiece out of [-] portraits, then it can be seen that most of the paintings are also cheap. Yes, it is not necessarily more precious than photos. Maybe I will not be able to wait for a masterpiece when my face fades, until I turn into dry bones. In my opinion, the most beautiful photo will never be as good as a masterpiece, but it can be Outperforms most paintings. Just as the best pulp novels surpass most pulp literature."

"..."

The female blood smiled, it was a smile that would make a man feel proud, as if there was an untouchable corner in her thinking field, and you just unveiled the mysterious black veil covering that corner for her.

Her dark eyes looked at Su Shi through the lace, and there was a charming humility in her expression of slightly raising her eyes to look up.

The lace covering her eyes gives her a faint Mona Lisa-like beauty.

She put her hands on the coffee table and exhaled like a scorpion:

"anyway……"

"Balam."

Someone in the room said hello, and the others stopped talking. They all turned their gazes to Balan, looked away after Balan sat down, and continued chatting.

Su Shi also looked back, but was a little hasty, something soft and slightly cool covered his hands, and the voice of the female vampire rang softly in his ears again:

"You should have a portrait of yourself too, dear..."

...Why do I feel like a village flower being molested by a village cadre?

Is it teasing?Or is this one of the three major illusions of straight men?

Su Shi, who was held by the girl, fell into deep thought: "..."