MAIR

Chapter 177

Making a fool of yourself

Although the original "Red Actress" was a work of high literary, its narrative sense was not very strong, and it is very difficult to adapt it into a movie. However, under the adaptation of Yang Yizhou, it retained the sad temperament of the original work, but strengthened the narrative, which leads to today's "Red Actress".

Yang Yizhou, one of the top writers in China, showed his skills incisively and vividly in this movie, His perfect cooperation with Director Xie and the excellent acting skills of the actors brought the audience into the plot.

With the slow narration of the movie, an hour and a half passed in a blink of an eye, and the story came to the end.

Cheng Yanxin's identity was exposed, but she didn't panic at all. She just sat on the chair in her study and sunlight got through the window panel making the room half bright and half dark. Cheng Yanxin sat between the bright and dark boundaries.

She opened the drawer and found half a full box of cigarettes and matches in it. This was what Zhou Hanchen left here.

Since Cheng Yanxin decided to separate from him, she returned all his things and sent them back. Only this pack of cigarettes, was accidentally left here when Zhou Hanchen sent Cheng Yanxin home. Cheng Yanxin hesitated for a long time, but finally she did not throw it away, but put it safely in the drawer.

Cheng Yanxin fingers gently caresses half a full box of cigarettes.

She remembered the way Zhou Hanchen smoked. He was half leaning under the streetlamp light, with smoke curling around his fingers, and his eyes were covered by glasses but when he looked up and saw her, the joy in his eyes could not even compare with the stars all over the sky.

Cheng Yanxin looks down as if the whole person sunk into dark.

Trembling, she opened the cigarette box and pulled out a cigarette, which was held between her lips, but the fire was not lit several times. The light of the match swept over her face, as if to give a glimpse of the fear and regret that the legendary beauty had never shown.

After all, she was just a mortal. At the time of death, she couldn't help but show the mortal emotions, but these emotions are too short, just like the moment when the match suddenly lighted and goes out, quickly making people think it was an illusion.

But the keen movies critics still saw it, and there was a strong sense of disbelief in their hearts.

This scene was not an edited shot, the camera was firmly facing Cheng Yanxin face, and even the angle hasn't changed. These complex and difficult emotional changes were done all by the actress herself. What an acting skill this was !

She didn't say a word, but still brought all the audience into this sad atmosphere. Some members of the audience had already let out low sobs.

Finally, a match lit the cigarette, and the faint light fell on Cheng Yanxin's face.

Instead of smoking, she looked dazed. No one knew what she was thinking about, but suddenly her eyes showed a smile. She took the cigarette off her lips, and a touch of her lipstick was left on it,

She smiled softly and put the cigarette on the inkstone.

The camera turned, and through the light of the fire, it could be seen that she walked out of the room. Outside, there was the sound of military boots stepping on the ground neatly, as well as the sound of guns colliding.

The light of fire gradually dimmed.

Cheng Yanxin's death was filmed with great restraint, as if the director couldn't bear to see such a peerless beauty die under the guns of the neon army. However, such a blank left the audience more and more aware of the heavy sadness behind this history.