Just because of Xia Xiqing's reply in the comment area, Zhou Ziheng was drifting for a week. Every day when I have nothing to do, I just smirk at Xia Xiqing and do some weird things.

One day Xia Xiqing was watching a movie in Zhou Ziheng's bedroom, when he heard something going on downstairs, he went downstairs and found Zhou Ziheng and Zhao Ke, carrying two big cardboard boxes. Everyone is hesitant.

"What are you holding in your hands? Let me help you."

"Oh, no need," Zhou Ziheng laughed dryly, kicked Zhao Ke's leg, "Let's go to the rooftop."

"Is there a key to the rooftop?" Xia Xiqing frowned suspiciously.

Zhou Ziheng nodded, "I took care of the property yesterday." After speaking, the two of them went upstairs with the box on their shoulders.

When passing by him, Xia Xiqing glanced at the English on the box.

I always feel a little familiar, but I can't remember it for a while. It wasn't until before going to bed at night that Xia Xiqing remembered that he seemed to have seen a similar cardboard box at Brother Xia Zhixu's place before, but his brother's place contained astronomical CCDs and photographic equipment.

What did Zhou Ziheng do with that thing?

It's not surprising when you think about it carefully, brother Xia Zhixu studies astrophysics, and Zhou Ziheng studies physics, so it's normal for them to have the same interests.

The selection of "Tracking" as the main competition unit of the Berlin Film Festival was not publicized at the beginning. It was not until the official announcement of the shortlist in early December that "Tracking" was officially announced on Weibo, and the schedule was moved to the opening of the Berlin Film Festival. that day.

[@电影追接官方微博: The movie "Tracking" directed by Kuncheng@城城城子, starring Zhou Ziheng@actor周自凯, Xia Xiqing@Tsing_Summer was rescheduled on February 3rd! The 1 minute and 30 second preview of "Fate Edition" was officially released. Live like an ant, fight for your life! ]

During the post-production period, Kuncheng and the production team also called Xia Xiqing several times to ask him for advice from the perspective of art, but Xia Xiqing is not a professional film art director, and he once declined, but Kuncheng insisted.

"You have a special status. You are not only a painter, but also Jiang Tong in the play. We need to show the world in his eyes from Jiang Tong's perspective."

Xia Xiqing immediately understood the meaning of Kuncheng. What he needed was to use artistic means to restore the world Jiang Tong saw in the eyes of the audience as much as possible.

On the day when the preview came out, Xia Xiqing was also very nervous, which was almost comparable to the first time he participated in his own painting auction. Different from Huahua, this film is his interpretation of a soul that is very similar to him with his own complete person. This kind of creation is extremely rare for him, and there may never be a second time.

So even though he had already participated in the whole filming, his heart was still slightly shaken when he saw the trailer.

Because it is the first trailer, it only lasts for one minute and thirty seconds, so the content and plot that can be said are very limited. The opening scene is the picture of Gao Kun played by Zhou Ziheng sitting in the crowded and dilapidated small clinic. The close-up shots quickly switch between the two faces, the red-haired Gao Kun, who is full of hostility, and the doctor with stern eyes and disdainful eyes.

"You don't tell me what's wrong with me?"

"Why, you still want to be terminally ill."

The door of the clinic was slammed shut, and the walls were covered with graffiti. Small advertisements like psoriasis were stuck on it, intertwined with the bright red paint printing of false certificates, covering each other like people who had committed scandal.

In the camera, there are only a pair of legs walking in the muddy narrow alley, and the black jeans are splashed with mud spots. The elongated camera shows the community that is as dilapidated as a rotting ant nest, and all kinds of low-level people pass through it. A ten-second shot is like a microcosm of the lowest world, the sound of abuse is mixed with shouts for children to go back to eat, yelling and selling are mixed with the piercing whistle of the congested culvert. But these are just background sounds, and the real voice-over is accompanied by those legs that keep moving forward.

[Your mother ran away after giving birth, she was tricked into giving birth! ]

[There are dogs born by mothers but not raised by mothers. ]

[My own father is also dead, and another grandma will die, and they will all live, and the nemesis will be one. ]

[What kind of work do you come to the city for! Are you an adult? I don't dare to use child labor, so please don't delay my business! ]

[Hey, why can’t you survive. Save what grandma, save yourself these days. ]

[Go to a big hospital if you have the ability! Poor and sick forever! ]

Those voices became louder and noisier, mixing together like countless out-of-control machines, and finally fell silent under a burst of harsh noise.

The picture is completely black, and the sound of panting can be heard in the darkness.

"I have AIDS." There was a brief silence in the voice.

When the screen lit up again, it was the screen of Gao Kun smashing the iron door of Aaron's rental house. There was a loud bang, and Gao Kun's distorted and ferocious face was exposed through the gap in the railing.

"AIDS! Did you know?!"

Under the effect of montage, the green wall outside the iron gate gradually turns into a nighttime convenience store covered with a green filter.

Gao Kun, who had cut his palm, smeared scarlet blood randomly on the shelves of the convenience store, his legs wandered like a lonely soul, until he walked to the last row of shelves close to the warehouse with the blood stains, and met another pair of footsteps, the old glue was opened But the white sneakers that have been cleaned, and the convenience store uniform pants that have been dusted.

The camera only shoots the lower body. The person in uniform let go of his hand, and the box he held in his hand fell to the ground, spilling colorful lollipops all over the floor.

The orange lollipop transformed again, turning into an orange sunset. In the shadow reflected on the wall, a weak voice curled up on the ground, unable to stand up after being beaten.

The sound of the music suddenly speeds up, and the two images start to intersect. The same tracking perspective, one is the thin figure following in the dark, and the other is the limping figure following the road in the setting sun. The images repeatedly flicker from midnight and twilight Switching, and finally turned into two close faces amidst the excitement of the music.

The screen flashed, Gao Kun was strangling a person's neck fiercely, his veins were bulging, and even his voice was gnashing his teeth.

"I can't die alone..."

At the end of this sentence, the screen suddenly went out.

Drops of blood appeared in the black screen, gradually turning into the word "tracking", but the blood color faded again and again, and the light and shadow interlaced, like the sunset light shining through the gaps in the black paper-cut.

The screen was cut, and all the background music disappeared, leaving only a panicking silence.

In the camera, Jiang Tong is standing with empty hands, his pupils flickering, his face is pale, his mouth is open, he wants to speak but finds that he can't make a sound, his hands are empty, and there are lollipops scattered around his feet.

A lollipop rolled to the feet of the person standing opposite. He picked up the candy with **** hands and handed it to Jiang Tong.

The last shot is a close-up of Gao Kun.

He wiped his face with **** hands, and smiled at Jiang Tong, or the audience.

Insidious, twisted, scary. Desperate laugh.

The screen was completely black again, and the list of main creators appeared on the screen. Next to my ears was the last line in the trailer, her voice was trembling, but there was an unyielding stubbornness.

"Fate is cheap... deserve to die?"

Although he has seen all the scenes, Xia Xiqing was shocked by this first preview, especially Gao Kun's last smile, which was the first time he met Jiang when his mentality was completely collapsed. Tong.

Xia Xiqing was pleasantly surprised that in terms of art, the director did adopt his suggestion. The color tone in the trailer is different from the dark and cold tones used in many reality films in the past. It is some very rich and even viscous high saturation and low lightness colors. set up.

Moss-like damp green walls, bright red viscous blood, late-night light green filters in convenience stores, mint-colored culverts, orange-red lollipops and the sunset in sugar water slices.

"In Jiang Tong's eyes, the world is both good and bad. He wants to survive because of this. And he likes painting. For such a person who likes art in his bones, no matter how bad the world is, it is rotten in his eyes. beautiful."

These are Xia Xiqing's original words, how amazing it is to reproduce them into images through a whole production team.

Once the trailer was released, it was hotly discussed by netizens. Among other things, the traffic of these two leading actors is almost unmatched at the moment, but they are different from the traditional traffic. One of them is a national actor of the twenties who has been in the theater for more than ten years. There are almost no bad movies in the leading roles , it is rare for an actor who does not go to an art school to be admitted to a prestigious school with his ability.

The other is even more legendary. He became famous overnight by his face, but in fact he was a painter who created an oil painting with an auction price of 800,000 yuan at the age of fifteen. After coming out of the closet, he almost became a pioneer of the LGBT community.

These two people get together, plus a cutting-edge director who has won awards abroad for many independent films, plus a lot of sensitive subjects, it is hard not to be discussed by the public.

[@自学向我冲: An Alpha who doesn’t want to be a physicist is not a good actor. ]

[@米最甜的CP: A beauty who doesn’t want to be a good actor is not a good painter. ]

[@假智智: Oh my god, that last laugh made my skin crawl, I swear I'm not a Zhou fan! ]

[@我是不除了: Zhou Ziheng should also win the award, I can smell the smell of nomination after watching the trailer. ]

[@蓝色堂biubiubiu: Originally, I saw that Xia Xiqing didn’t really want to watch [I didn’t scold him because I questioned his professionalism in acting, but after watching the trailer, I actually really like it? ? ? ]

[@OHlala: Xia Xiqing looks so good-looking... [I can't think about it when I'm addicted to beauty]]

[@SWood: I don’t watch movies with traffic, it’s easy for fans to criticize, aren’t you embarrassed? ]

[@who first gets married who is a dog: I'll go for the long legs full of screen...Zhou Ziheng's red hair is really handsome, I didn't recognize it at first glance, but the smile at the end is too evil! ]

[@电影小飞侠: From the perspective of the trailer, the production is still very conscientious. Whether it is the lens or the music, you can see the sincerity of the producer, and the tone is also very special. On the contrary, there are The more beautiful the more tragic feeling. When I heard the last line, I really got goosebumps. Zhou Ziheng is a top student in the film industry. His good performance as always will make everyone ignore his efforts. I think this movie may give him an award. In addition, Xia Xiqing was very surprised when he made his last appearance. He has a lingering upper-class temperament in his previous appearances. He was born with it, but it was worn out in the movie, which fits the movie "Like an Ant". The settings are surprisingly good. ]

[@我们的我们: I wasn’t interested at first. Many people mentioned this movie when Xia Xiqing came out of the closet before, saying that he had AIDS from promiscuity, so he acted in this movie. At that time, I felt that some people’s hearts were so dirty that they couldn’t look. Now it seems that this movie is really a sincere work, how many people dare to touch this subject matter? I will support a movie ticket just because of Xia Xiqing's aggressiveness in coming out of the closet. ]

Although there are many discordant voices, especially a group of homophobic middle-aged straight male netizens accumulated in the October turmoil, most of the voices are good. The quality of the trailer is here, it is hard not to be convinced .

Xia Xiqing is a person who is not likely to be swayed by other people's evaluations, but if he is affirmed, no matter who he is, he will feel moved.

It is a lucky and happy thing to be a surprise under low expectations.

As the main creator, Xia Xiqing reposted the announcement on the official Weibo very cooperatively.

[@Tsing_Summer: I am not wrong to be human. ]

If Jiang Tong was played by another actor, the sentence in the retweet would not cause any discussion. It just so happens that it is Xia Xiqing who has experienced the turmoil of coming out. This kind of grafted emotional bond can easily allow everyone to substitute Xia Xiqing's perspective , resulting in a subtle empathy, which binds actors and characters even more.

Soon, Zhou Ziheng, who was filming a perfume advertisement, also reposted it on Weibo.

[@actor周自恒: Hello Gao Kun, you are not wrong. ]

In December, Xia Xiqing got busy. It was precisely because of the previous turmoil on the Internet that the exposure of the art museum attracted an explosive flow of visitors. Although most of them knew little about art, it was better to have more people than to be deserted. So did Xia Xiqing With a good management attitude, he carefully kept the things left by his mother. In this situation, he had to work overtime and hold meetings with the team to make some plans to limit traffic. At the same time, he also specially organized some exclusive activities for non-professionals , similar to art science.

Originally, he thought that these things would not be too busy, but the actual operation was much more troublesome. A person like him who only drew from a young age had to learn the experience of business management from scratch. For the art museum activities on Friday, Xia Xiqing stayed up for three or four nights, personally selected the collections to be displayed, and invited well-known domestic art masters to give lectures. Even Zhou Ziheng, who was always busy with his work, felt distressed.

"Why are you working so hard?" Zhou Ziheng put a thick blanket on Xia Xiqing who was sitting in front of the workbench, and he was still bending over the desk to modify the design plan.

Xia Xiqing raised his head and turned his neck, "Do you know why Jiang Tong is so poor, and still has to work several jobs to rent that old rental house? He can definitely just rent a single room and live better by himself."

This is something outside the script, Zhou Ziheng hesitated for a moment, and suddenly understood.

But he didn't say it. Xia Xiqing just smiled, lowered his head and continued.

Zhou Ziheng hugged him from behind and kissed the top of his head.

Because Jiang Tong wanted to keep the house where he and his mother lived together.

On December 21, at 3:00 pm on Friday, the event planned by Xia Xiqing began. As the owner of the art museum, he also attended the event in formal attire. Many fans of Xia Xiqing came down from the stage. These fans are also very obedient, and they don't have support items such as illuminated signs and hand banners. They come very low-key, not noisy, and very orderly.

Xia Xiqing specially made a flower basket with his own hands and asked fans to put letters in the basket, but not long after the event started, the flower basket was already full and could no longer be filled.

"Boss, many people have brought presents, do you accept them?"

Originally thinking it was the norm in the fan circle, Xia Xiqing shook his head, "Gifts are not accepted, letters are fine."

"But there are too many presents. We put them in the corner of the outer hall at first, but now there is no room for them to pile up in that corner..."

"Who asked you to pile it up? I have already said that you are not allowed to accept it." Xia Xiqing was wearing a black suit, pressing his earphones, and hurried to the outer hall, but he said again, "No, boss, They insisted on giving it because..."

"Don't make excuses, I'll..."

"Because they said it was a birthday present for you, and there was a big cake."

Xia Xiqing's footsteps stopped suddenly.

Birthday?

He slowly took out his mobile phone and unlocked the lock screen, December 21st.

Looks like it's really his birthday...

He has been too busy and chaotic lately, and he has no time to think about time. Moreover, since the incident on his tenth birthday, he has never had a good birthday again.

Looking at the girls waiting in line at the ticket inspection area, Xia Xiqing felt a surge of mixed emotions. They are very obedient, not noisy, no support, just quietly put the letter away, stuffed the gift to the staff, quietly, not even dare to say happy birthday, for fear of disturbing themselves.

Being able to reap the love of others is always a happy thing.

Xia Xiqing called his assistant, "Go, help me buy as many flowers as possible, pink roses, for these girls, one for each of them."

The assistant quickly finished the matter and gave flowers one by one to the fans while checking the tickets. Xia Xiqing cut the big cake with his own hands and shared it with everyone.

Soon, the assistant pushed another shelf covered with dark blue velvet.

"Mr. Xia, this is also a gift for you."

Xia Xiqing didn't have time, and he didn't raise his head, "I'll put it in the outer hall for a while..."

"Would you like to take a look first?"

He raised his head and glanced at the shelf suspiciously. There was a card on the shiny velvet under the crystal lamp, which said happy birthday.

The moment Xia Xiqing saw the signature, Xia Xiqing couldn't help but startled.

From: Thief.

He stretched out his hand, and his heart was beating loudly, hitting his barren and empty chest every time, as if resonating with the things covered by that velvet.

Lifting the cover, what Xia Xiqing saw was an oil painting, in which a beautiful woman was sitting upright.

It was the mother he painted when he was fifteen years old, and it was also the first painting in his life to be auctioned.

After ten years of wandering and wandering, he finally returned to him.