After breaking Yu Xinliang's murder, Lao Huang was idle, but he never went to Xiaoyu's barber shop again. He also found another store, went to this store with haircuts and shaves. Lao Huang was a little afraid of seeing Xiaoyu and didn't know how to face her.

A few days before the Chinese New Year, Lao Huang's daughter called and said that she was in business and could not come back to accompany him this year. Lao Huang felt a little sad, but he also understood what if his daughter came back to live for a few days? She became more worried after leaving.

On the morning of New Year's Eve, after Lao Huang got up, he looked at the calendar and had already written it with a red pen: "Go and see Xiaoyu at night." He stood at the window, staring at the sky for a long time, and came to the street. He didn't know what to buy to please Xiaoyu, so he bought a lot of fireworks, not loud, but the kind that can spew out flames.

At nine o'clock in the evening, it was dark and Lao Huang walked towards the barber shop. Because it was New Year's Eve, there were almost no people on the road, and it was very deserted. Lao Huang was a little hesitant along the way, and even doubted whether he had the courage to walk into Xiaoyu's shop and spend the New Year's Eve with her. Lao Huang hated the steel slag a little, why did he hand such a thing in his hands?

Walking more than ten meters away from the barber shop, Lao Huang saw a long lantern hanging outside the simple shop, bright red and swaying in the wind. Under the dark night sky, a small house full of red lanterns looked particularly dazzling.

Seeing this scene, many viewers remembered Ken Takakura's movie "Happy Yellow Handkerchief". The heroine Mitsuki hung yellow handkerchiefs on the flagpole at the doorstep, waiting for her husband Yongzu to return. In the end, Mitsuki waited for Yongzu; but Xiaoyu would never wait for the person she was waiting for!

The camera rolled over and shook towards the city under the hillside. The lights were brightly lit at the foot of the mountain, and fireworks rose up from time to time. Then, the camera rolled back and pointed at Xiao Yu's barber shop. The mountain seemed to have become two worlds, and the barber shop seemed to be isolated from an isolated island outside the world, and was particularly lonely.

The music slowly sounded, it was Beethoven's "Ode to Joy". As the music started, the camera slowly pulled up and pulled up to a high altitude, and the higher and higher, the barber shop of Xiaoyu became farther and smaller, and finally disappeared completely; the camera slowly pulled out the clouds and pulled out into space, presenting the audience with a lonely earth; the lens was still moving forward, slowly pulled out of the solar system, and shuttled through the starry sea.

The audience knew that the movie was about to end, but the audience was silent and did not even dare to exude the air. They listened attentively to the wonderful notes of "Ode to Joy" coming one after another, as if thousands of rainbows were constantly emerging one after another.

After the camera was pulled into the air, Jia Zhangke was stunned. He realized that Zhang Ran had completed the sublimation through this lens, rising from personal loneliness to human loneliness; when the final lens moved forward in the universe, it even rose to life loneliness. In the vast universe, all life was lonely.

This was originally a scene that made people feel desperate, but the audience not only did not feel desperate, but instead felt a warm feeling in their hearts. They only felt a warm current flowing into their hearts, and then flowing through their bodies, making them warm.

Jia Zhangke knew very well that this was Zhang Ran’s purpose of using “Ode to Joy”!

"Ode to Joy" is the main part of Beethoven's fourth movement of the Ninth Symphony. Beethoven was a poor, disabled, lonely, born in pain. The world never gave him joy. However, in the last years of his life, he created the "Ninth Symphony", dedicating joy to the whole world, and forging the joy of the world with his own suffering.

Now Zhang Ran transplants this great feeling into "One Person Decoration", trying to use joy to soothe the characters in the movie and soothe all movie audiences. At the end of the movie, Zhang Ran presents a great artist's compassion for the world and ambition to soothe the suffering of the world.

Jia Zhangke looked up at Zhang Ran not far away, sighed slightly, thinking unwillingly that as the director, Zhang Ran really left us far behind!

In the passionate melody of "Ode to Joy", the subtitles slowly pass by, Director: Zhang Ran, Screenwriter: Zhang Ran, Starring: Li Xuejian, Zhang Ran, Zhang Jingchu...

Looking at the subtitles passing by, Zhang Yimou stood up and applauded hard. This is the best Chinese movie he has seen recently. No, it is the best movie. The performances of the actors, Zhang Ran’s adaptation, the scheduling of the lens, the processing of space, the use of light and colors. Everything is so perfect, it is simply a perfect work!

Jia Zhangke also applauded. The movie started with darkness and ended with darkness, forming a complete circle. This circle can be a city, the earth, or the universe. Everyone in this circle is lonely. Zhang Ran told everyone through the movie that loneliness is not scary, we have hope, it is really an amazing movie!

Other directors were applauding, and movies like this were mountains and they could only look up to them throughout their lives.

The lights started to light up and the screen completely disappeared. The audience stood up, applauded vigorously, and began to shout the names of the main creators such as Zhang Ran. The media reporters all noticed that although the applause was very warm today, it was much more sparse than Zhang Ran's previous movies. They nodded thoughtfully and began to think about how to write tomorrow's news.

Amid the applause and screams, Zhang Ran took the crew members to the stage, expressed his insights on the movie, and talked about interesting stories during the filming of the movie.

The reporters in the audience pressed the shutter crazily, and the flash kept flashing.

Zhang Yimou and the others did not rush to leave, but were invited to the theater conference room. Zhang Ran invited them here today to chat with them and share their opinions.

Half an hour later, Zhang Ran walked in and asked with a smile: "Dear directors, how do you feel? Tell me what you think. I am especially looking forward to everyone's opinion."

Zhang Yimou turned to look at Zhang Ran, nodded seriously, and said, "I like this movie very much, which can be said to be perfect. If I have to find fault, I think there is a plot that should not be deleted. That is, after Gangzou was arrested, Xiaoyu took money to the fake certificate dealer to buy the so-called A-level State Council amnesty order. Lao Huang and the police came to arrest the fake certificate dealer, so they took Xiaoyu back to the bureau and then released her. I think this plot is particularly interesting and should be retained!"

Zhang Ran filmed the scene of Xiaoyu buying a fake certificate. He also liked the scene very much, but during the editing, he even took it off: "I think that the scene would look too solid. I hope to leave some space for the audience to think about what Xiaoyu's life looks like when his brother died and his lover was caught. When Lao Huang came to the barber shop, he saw the lanterns hanging on him, the audience's heart would be deeper."

Zhang Yimou thought about it and thought it made sense, and continued: "The first half of the movie is quite dull, especially if it is smaller than that line, which is usually unbearable. Of course, these dullnesses are accumulating strength and preparing for the subsequent explosions, so the final explosive power of the movie is particularly strong. However, for the audience, the previous drama is really too uncomfortable. After the movie is released, there will definitely be many viewers scolding people; as for the critics, I have long disliked you, and I guess it will be more fierce than "Golden Armor"!

Zhang Ran was prepared for this and said unconsciously: "It's a test work, it's normal to be scolded. I'm ready to be scolded when filming!" Zhang Ran smiled at Zhang Yimou, looked at Jia Zhangke, and asked, "Old Jia, what do you think?"

Jia Zhangke pondered: "I think you are a little anxious to shoot. I'm anxious to show the multi-voice montage. It's a bit too hard. The state and details of the characters in the front of the movie are very fun and very vivid. The back part is a bit too dramatic. Steel Zha and the others have made bombs, and Lao Huang and the others have just found this piece. It's too dramatic and have lost the texture of life."

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "Okay, you won't save me any face!"

Jia Zhangke also smiled and said, "I know you came to us to show off, but I just won't let you do it!"

Zhang Ran laughed loudly: "It's over! I've been seen through!" After laughing, he asked again: "Are there any other questions?"

Jia Zhangke said helplessly: "I thought about it for a long time and found such a problem! Other places are very good. I especially like the ending of the movie. I didn't expect you to end with "Ode to Joy". It's such a stroke of magic!"

Zheng Dongtian agreed: "When the movie started, I was wondering how to finish the end so that it would not seem like a terrible end! At the end of the movie, when "Ode to Joy" sounded, I immediately remembered Du Fu's words, "Why do you have thousands of houses to shelter all the poor people in the world to be happy." This state is really not something that ordinary people can achieve, and this ending is really amazing!"

Zhang Yimou also deeply felt the same: "The movie starts with personal loneliness. When the music sounds, it is sublimated and rises to the height of human beings and even all life, and the entire realm is suddenly different!"

While Zhang Ran was communicating with the directors, everything related to movies on the Internet was discussing "One Person Decoration with Lights".

"This movie is really great! It is particularly intriguing and the plot is exciting. Starting from a case, it seems that the cases are solved in the end, but it is not so straightforward. While allowing people to clarify the logic of the case, it also interprets emotional entanglements! Recommend!"

"The movie is so exciting. Jingchu's performance is particularly outstanding. She is moderate and has no trace. She has played Xiaoyu alive and is like a real mute. This is a real masterpiece among domestic movies in recent years. It is highly recommended!"

However, unlike fans' strong support, ordinary viewers' evaluations of "One Person's Lights and Decoration" are very different, and the polarization is very obvious. Those who like it are very much, those who hate it are very disgusted, and there is almost no middle view.

""One Person's Lights and Decoration" is the movie I'm most looking forward to, but I was very disappointed after watching it. I know that the director wants to express a lot, life, life, loneliness, but at least you have to make good shots! I really don't want to say that this is a bad movie of the year, but it's really bad!"

"Bad movies! Hopelessly bad movies! I'm looking forward to it for more than a year. I went to the cinema as soon as possible, but I was choked and looked gray. I really don't understand what Zhang Ran is doing. Do you have to show off when making movies? Look at Ang Lee's movies. Is it so pretentious? They all went to school in the United States, so why is the gap so big? There are ten Zhang Yimous gaps between Zhang Ran and Ang Lee!"

"How to say it, the conceptual film is more profound than Zhang Ran's previous films. The rhythm of the first half is particularly uncomfortable, especially the scene of Zhang Jingchu is too tormenting, but it's better to survive this. The film becomes more and more exciting as it goes on, with amazing richness, it's really wonderful!"

"It's really beyond imagination. The whole story is gripping. I almost couldn't breathe from beginning to end! Characters! Humanity! Great! The actors have a very high acting skills! The director's shooting skills are great! Looking forward to the next work!"

As an experimental movie, it is normal for "One Person to Decorate" to be controversial, and it is not normal for no controversy. However, if any movie with commercial intentions is too controversial for the audience, it means that it is difficult to achieve particularly good results at the box office of the movie, even Zhang Ran's movie is no exception.
Chapter completed!