On Weibo, under the topic related to the Yannan College Student Film Festival, discussions about the film are in full swing.
[I just watched "The Night Is Short" today, and I felt very immersed in it. I couldn't help but shed tears when I thought about the hard work I had gone through when I just graduated.]
[This "College Entrance Examination! College Entrance Examination! College Entrance Examination!" is too ridiculous. A group of senior high school students don't review well and ignore their parents' feud. How could there be so many bad things in our senior year in high school before?
["The Crying" is what surprised me the most this time. I never thought that a horror movie could be made like this. If I don't talk about it, my cabinet will be moved.]
[The male and female protagonists in "The Past is Like Smoke" are really in love with each other, it's so irresistible, they are really the best!】
[I heard that many people did not even dare to leave the cinema after watching "The Crying". Let me clarify this, they did not dare to leave the mall!]
[Let me tell you, you have to buy the late-night show of "The Crying" and watch it at 11 or 12 o'clock. This is the most enjoyable and immersive experience! I won't say it anymore. I watched it during the day and felt a little regretful. I plan to find time to watch it again at night.
Go to the second brush!]
["The Crying" seems very scary. A timid person like me will not go to the cinema. It would be embarrassing to be frightened.]
These topics are also mixed with some news. For example, after the audience left the mall last night, they did not dare to take a taxi home by themselves. Public transportation was stopped again, so many people who lived close to each other simply walked home together, resulting in midnight
The driver thought he had seen a ghost and called the police.
Also, a staff member of a cinema where "The Cry" was screened last night was found huddled in the employee lounge this morning. It is said that after watching the movie in the lounge, he did not dare to leave or go to the bathroom.
, and waited shiveringly until dawn.
For young audiences, what the movie shows is not that important.
Many people go to the cinema simply to kill time if they can't find anything to do. The drunkard's intention is not to drink, but to hold hands while watching the movie and to talk about the day after watching the movie.
Most viewers don't care much about the specific logic of the movie. As long as it's generally smooth, the pictures are exciting enough, and the plot is exciting enough, even if it doesn't have any logic, it's fine.
There are also hot spots. If a movie is very popular, goes out of the circle, and everyone around is watching it, then many people will subconsciously choose to watch it, so that there will be common topics in society. For example, to give a simple example, a crush
A girl posted a message in Moments saying that she just watched a certain movie. Then you might want to watch the movie and find common topics with her.
Therefore, the wave of "Crying" can be regarded as gaining popularity.
The first day's box office is out. Several movies have similar schedules, so the final box office is quite different. Only "Crying" has all the reservations for the second day, and even the third and fourth days. It is expected that the box office has already been filled.
Arrived first.
In response to this situation, theater chains and film festival organizers were not stupid, and announced the next afternoon that they would add additional films to "The Crying".
Just to be fair, these films will not occupy the playing time of other movies, but will all be placed in the midnight show.
Midnight shows are shows after 12 o'clock. In addition to the premieres of some movies, these shows usually show some packaged bad movies or classic old movies. There are also all-night shows where three movies are played at 12 o'clock.
Put it at six o'clock in the morning.
Normal people would not go to this kind of show.
Who stays up all night and goes to the cinema to stay up all night?
But this time it's different.
"The Cry" is a horror film.
Horror movies are only exciting if you watch them late at night!
Moreover, the sound and picture of the cinema are first-class. Watching a horror movie in this atmosphere is simply not a fun experience.
Therefore, when the news of the midnight show first came out, there were a lot of refunds for "The Crying" - they all canceled the daytime show and bought the midnight show instead.
Of course, not everyone can like something, and no matter how popular something is, there will always be objections.
"The Cry" uses horror as its selling point, so naturally some people who are numb to horror movies and seek horror thrills sneered at it.
On Weibo, someone posted a comment.
[I am studying forensic medicine and have seen all kinds of corpses. I think movies like "The Crying" may be just gimmicks and scary enough for the public, but they shouldn't scare me. I plan to go there with my classmates.
Give it a try.]
The person whose account is called [Spicy Eggplant] is indeed a forensic medicine student named Zheng Li.
He posted this on Weibo. On the one hand, he really thinks that ordinary horror movies are boring. Movies like "The Cry" that everyone is talking about should be traditional scares.
On the other hand, it’s also about pretending to be cool and getting traffic and popularity just in case it becomes popular.
However, someone soon came to challenge him on his Weibo, asking him to host a live broadcast or arrange a movie theater to challenge him.
Zheng Li must not be cowardly. Who is the coward and who is the grandson? After a debate on the Internet, he bought tickets for the midnight show and made an appointment with several netizens to watch "Crying" together.
After buying the ticket, Zheng Li searched for the keywords of "Crying" just to be on the safe side.
"I am not afraid, this is called knowing yourself and your enemy and you will never be in danger."
He wanted to find out if there were any explanations, spoilers, etc. He was not afraid of horror movies, but he still couldn't bear the way of scaring someone by suddenly showing a ghost face. This didn't mean that he couldn't bear it psychologically, but that he was sure of it physically.
will react.
Zheng Li felt that he would not be afraid at all, but his body would react conditionedly if he could not control it. He could not suppress his instinct.
So he wanted to know in advance whether there were any such hot spots in the movie and prepare in advance. After all, he couldn't lose face during offline PK.
However, when Zheng Li searched for news related to "Crying", he unexpectedly found news about Nanhua Private Renji Hospital. According to the plot synopsis, this seems to be the hospital that the movie is based on.
Following the link, Zheng Li saw that this hospital seemed to be real?
He looked at the information summarized in the post, as well as various photos and news. As he looked at it, Zheng Li discovered something.
"Is this movie real?"
He felt a chill behind him. After all, this was too real. It was not just a few words from netizens, but was even reported in local news. It didn't look like it was fabricated for publicity.
"No, I can't watch this anymore. The more I see it, the more scared I get..."
Zheng Li decisively closed the webpage, trying to drive those things out of his mind and stop himself from thinking too much.
At night, after eleven o'clock, he came to the cinema. Surprisingly, the cinema was full of people. Everyone seemed to be gathering here as if they were not ready to sleep.
They all came to see the midnight show.
At nearly half past eleven, Zheng Li heard a sudden noise coming from ahead.
He saw that it was the audience who had finished watching the previous show "Crying".
The audience members were silent and seemed to be immersed in the movie and unable to extricate themselves.
One of the girls was helped by someone next to her and walked two steps. Suddenly she seemed to see something. Her expression was ferocious. She took several steps back and screamed in surprise.
"Don't come over, don't come over..."
She fell to the ground as if she had seen something terrifying.
"hiss--"
Zheng Li took a breath. He felt that as a forensic doctor, he had never seen any battle before and would not make a fuss.