Chapter 53: The post-credits Easter egg of "The Heart Labyrinth"
Chapter 53: The post-credits Easter egg of "The Heart Labyrinth"
In the pure white hospital ward, Zhang Wei lay quietly on the bed, wearing a semi-enclosed helmet with flashing lights on his head. Beside him were various sci-fi electronic instruments and life-support equipment.
The wife, played by Sun Li, was holding her husband's hand and calling him nervously.
The next second, as the frequency of the flashing light on the helmet increased, Zhang Wei, who was lying on the bed, suddenly took a deep breath, twitched all over, and opened his eyes.
"Congratulations, Mrs. Zhang. It seems that this newly developed subconscious therapy device is very effective. Your husband seems to have regained consciousness.
Of course, he may still be immersed in a dream and have difficulty distinguishing reality from fantasy, but this is a normal reaction and he will be fine after a while of recuperation."
The doctors and nurses who had been waiting on the side came forward first and carefully checked Zhang Wei's physical condition. When his wife heard the good news, she cried with joy and said "thank you" repeatedly.
In this relaxed atmosphere, the camera gradually panned and finally landed on Zhang Wei's bedside card.
On it, the diagnostic description of "brain damage, loss of cognitive function" is clearly visible.
In addition, a company trademark shaped like a "maze" and called "Fantasy Technology" is also particularly eye-catching.
At this point the screen went black, and the entire "The Heart Labyrinth - Buried Alive" came to an end.
The whole audience burst into applause!
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The screening of "Buried" was like a red-crowned crane breaking into a flock of chickens, shocking the students and teachers of the Beijing Film Academy so much that they could not calm down for a long time.
It’s not that Wang Hao’s movies are so great. These talented students from film academies have seen better movies than this one.
The key point is that the director of this film is a student like them, which is quite surprising.
Moreover, compared with his graduation works of the same period, the performance of "Buried" is even more eye-catching.
The texture, the plot, the performance, it doesn't look like the work of a graduate student at all.
However, for Wang Hao, he didn’t care too much about his classmates’ shock.
How was the broadcast performance of "Buried"? Was it well received by the public? Was his directing skills recognized?
These issues that may affect his future career development are his focus.
It's a pity that it's only 2005 now, the Internet is in its infancy, and most film review media are still mainly newspapers and magazines. In this regard, they will not deliberately pay attention to a TV movie that has not been promoted much and does not have any big-name stars.
Fortunately, this year, Douban, a new online media, has been launched, and there are also many other movie-related chat rooms and forums.
So when "Buried" was rebroadcast on the movie channel the next day, he specially registered a Douban account, wanting to get a more intuitive feeling of the public's evaluation of the movie.
When he logged into the website, someone had already uploaded basic information about the movie "Buried Alive", and many enthusiastic viewers had left their opinions under the film.
"This film tells us how important it is to have a mobile phone with a long battery life."
“Never before have so few actors tortured so many audiences in so little space with such pathetic props.”
"Bold idea, great script. Absolutely low budget, a nightmare for those with claustrophobia. This movie is so depressing that it makes people feel suffocated." "Am I the only one who noticed that the director and screenwriter are the same person? I really want to see how the director's head works to come up with such a good movie."
"A reminder in advance: you can breathe while watching the movie!"
Wang Hao couldn't help but smile as he looked at the series of praising comments.
Although this adapted TV movie did not cause much waves in the mainstream media, the fact that it was able to gain recognition from so many viewers at least proved that his idea of a "domestic science fiction movie universe" was feasible.
It’s not that Chinese moviegoers don’t like science fiction movies, nor that they don’t have a sci-fi bent. It’s just that there are no good science fiction movies in today’s entertainment industry, and there is a lack of good directors who can make science fiction movies.
Those who gave positive reviews to "Buried" today may become loyal viewers of the science fiction movie universe in the future.
Of course, not all of these comments are positive.
"Can the oxygen in the box last that long?"
"The picture is dark, bad review!"
"Forcibly currying favor with relevant government departments, anyone who has been abroad knows that it is wishful thinking to dispatch peacekeeping troops for one person."
There are actually quite a few negative reviews like this on the website, but Wang Hao doesn't care.
Even gold, silver and jewelry in this world are regarded as trivial things by some people and discarded like dirt, let alone a movie.
It is normal to have critical voices, the key is to have substance in what you say. Otherwise, if the comments are just for the sake of criticizing or arguing, Wang Hao will not take them seriously.
Of course, this situation is extremely rare. After all, in this era, computers and the Internet are still novelties. Those who can register on Douban are all movie lovers with a high level of appreciation. The number of water armies like those in later generations is actually a minority.
Faced with the long comments left by some netizens, even though Wang Hao is the director of this movie, he couldn't help but admire them and felt that there are indeed talented people among the audience.
“In my opinion, the main theme of the film through this process may be to reflect the loneliness and helplessness of individuals in modern (future) society.
Therefore, even without seeing the ending, I have already guessed that the ending of the story will inevitably be a tragedy, and not the so-called "there is true affection and true love in the world."
The ending of the story was just as I expected. Of course, it seemed that in order to pass the review, the director expressed this idea very obscurely and gave the public a more open ending, which I can understand.
Of course, the reversal after the movie's ending was something I didn't expect. The director's thinking can be said to be wild and imaginative. This alternative ending seems to have given the movie another layer of meaning.
Some netizens have already mentioned this meaning in their comments, so I won’t interpret it in detail here.
But I still want to say that the indifference and distance between people reflected in this movie is indeed very depressing and desperate, and the coffin that the protagonist can't escape from could also be anything.
Family, love, law, morality...
It protects you, but also binds you. We want to get rid of it, but we have to rely on it until we are finally 'buried alive' by it!"
(End of this chapter)