If Yi Shulai wrote this novel, the beginning would be: This is an ordinary summer, no different from other summers.
It's just that it's a bit hot this day.
So everyone is a little bit difficult to hold on to themselves.
A big family hides all the material of the novel. A beautiful sister, a talented but jealous adolescent sister, Robbie who is motivated and clever but has always been difficult to break free from her birth, is indifferent to the world and only hangs on a mother who maintains a superficial image, stupid twins, a dull but coquettish cousin , A kind but not scheming elder brother, and a slick friend.
Everyone is a play. No one wants to let go of the director. The use of time-space jump connection also has to connect every gap so that it does not leak. In other words, the time-space jump and long shots are the most perfect technique that the director finally chose for this script.
The younger sister and the dull three brothers and sisters rehearsed unhappily, but they saw what they shouldn’t have seen, a scene in which they thought they were lustful and bold---elder sister unexpectedly undressed in front of the bastard. My ambiguous emotions encountered a cold snap. The seeds of jealousy were growing wildly at that moment.
When my sister and Robbie discussed their ideals for the future, they learned that the other party planned to leave to study medicine for six years in order to become professionals and get rid of their background. Sudden annoyance shattered my sister's peace of mind, and the vase was broken. Robbie was shaken by the action of stripping into the pool and picking up the debris.
Robbie wrote a letter of apology at home, one is the bold version, the other is the official version. However, he mistakenly gave the bold version to his sister and asked her to give it to her sister.
Brother's friend, the rich chocolate merchant, flirted openly with their coquettish sister in front of the twins.
This letter was peeked by her sister and angered her even more, but it was wrong and wrong and made Robbie and her sister entwined warmly.
This is what happened that afternoon.
However, the departure of the twins is the key to everything at the dinner table. The cousin said that they scratched themselves, and the rich chocolate merchant did not forget to add that his face was also scratched.
Looking for twins is the cause of the next action and the origin of the key points of atonement. The "rape" case occurred during the search for twins. The audience knows who the murderer is better than anyone else. Looking back, then, that afternoon, in that small room, the story of the rich businessman, his sister, and the twins should not be over yet. At least, there should be a source for scratching and running away from home. The director who took the trouble to jump back and forth did not let the audience see this scene. What a pity. I don't know if this scene was missed or it was not edited in the later stage.
The scene of the twins was completely blank afterwards. No one cared about where Robbie found them, and no one asked why they ran away from home. If the twins did see the clues of certain facts—maybe the wealthy businessmen that afternoon really wanted to make friends with their cousins, certain actions scared the twins and scared the cousins, or felt some kind of threat of snatching their relatives— —The news of my parents' divorce does not want my sister to be contested. On the level of understanding of children, a large part of friendship is "bullying." So, there are scars in the dispute?
That afternoon was indeed an extraordinary afternoon. It changed the lives of three people, if not more. Therefore, the gap in the key points is even more unforgivable. What he could have done, tell us another story about that man and his cousin.
I don’t know if the original novel describes this scene. Compared with the Dunkirk retreat, the long fascinating shots behind, and the wishful thinking of my sister, I am more eager to know what I missed that afternoon. The part of Shao but was incomplete that afternoon, and the same life that my sister, Robbie and sister could not escape, was always missing.
We will never know the truth of the matter. So their sacrifice is not worth it. My sister didn't see that scene, my sister didn't, and Robbie didn't. The truth of the matter lies not only in the fact that the person riding on the cousin is the rich businessman instead of Robbie, but in the clues earlier, the flustered look of the cousin and the rich businessman describing the scars at the dinner table, and the so-called atonement, and the real culprit. The culprit, can we really only let our sister bear it alone?
Who is the one who led the wolf into the house? yes, Sir. Who are the people who condone wealthy businessmen? It's a cousin. Don't ask if something is strange, who is it? It's everyone. Wear colored glasses to judge character, who is it? It's the current society. What makes a child's lie a crucial accusation? It's everyone. So what makes all this impossible? Everyone too.
There are also directors. He gave us one less scene. So the audience all pointed the finger at the younger sister-the one who spent his entire life to redeem and made up a happy ending. Isn't her life a funerary?
No one would think that inventing a happy ending means atonement. Everyone's life is only once, and the regrets that happen in real life cannot be filled in the book. Even after thousands of years, readers can still mistakenly think that this is a happy ending from the book. However, in the preface, wouldn’t there be any text that says: In a real life, one of them died of septicemia and the other died of Air strikes, never see you again in your life.
This sin, in fact, can never be redeemed. I blame it on that summer afternoon, it was really too hot.
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