Chapter 1108: Cold and Dull

The beginning of the story is very plain, the relationship between the characters is very simple, and the rhythm of the whole story is also difficult to be simple, just like Chen Bin, who goes to and from work every day.

In the script, it is very clear that the two directors Chen Hao, Xiao Gangpao and Xu Jinglei, want to shoot a couple, who are not the image in each other's mirror, but the contrasting personality in each other's life.

When Chen Bin faced a corpse at the scene of a car accident, his skills could bring him a high reward. He only needed to work overtime to earn several thousand yuan. In the cold and dark room, he spent nearly ten hours with the corpse. His eyes expressed his emotions, and there was never a single shake. After work, he had to change his clothes, take a shower, and then in the lounge next to the cold workroom, make a cup of coffee, put on a piece of music, close his eyes and lean back in a chair, listen to two or three songs, drink a cup of coffee, and go home.

This is the scene that Xu Jinglei and Xiao Gangpao felt was cold and cruel. After the initial straightforward narration, the first complete story was the "beautification" of the corpse at the scene of the car accident. He earned several thousand yuan on this side, and his wife Liu Miao was at home on the other side.

His side was from morning to eight o'clock in the evening.

From the director's perspective, this section of filming must be interspersed in time and space. After all, Chen Hao did not have multiple shots to shoot, but Liu Miao's side.

In the morning, after finishing the task of tidying up the house in the morning, Liu Miao dressed neatly and made an appointment with the neighbors next door to go to the city to go shopping. The discussion was not about which store had big brands and new clothes, but that the price of vegetables yesterday was more expensive than today, and they also took the bus.

There were two shopping malls, one was a high-end brand mall, and the other was a cheap mall for mass consumption. In the former, Liu Miao spent several thousand yuan to buy a skirt, which attracted the envy of the neighbors. Your husband still earns more. Look at my one, he is far inferior to your Chen Bin.

When she came back in the afternoon, Liu Miao bought a high-end skirt and also bought household items with her neighbors in a mass consumption mall. After getting off the car, she bought the ingredients needed for dinner on the small street, returned home, and changed her clothes.

With long hair draped over her shoulders, she was a good wife and mother, sitting quietly doing housework. She did not act bossy as a hostess, nor did she look coldly at her mother-in-law. Everything was not pretended. She was a good wife and mother, but she would not go into the old man's room to clean, nor would she ask the family what to eat tonight. She did not even need to ask for others' opinions on the time to eat.

At six o'clock, it was dinner time. Chen Bin was still working overtime. His mother answered the phone and saw that her daughter-in-law still started eating at six o'clock. She wanted to speak but did not. Everyone sat around the table to eat. Liu Miao would pick up dishes for her mother-in-law and ask about her son's homework. There was always a faint smile on her face.

After dinner, the TV was turned on, and Liu Miao cleaned up everything. When she finished cleaning up, she sucked the fruit, put it on the coffee table, and sat on the sofa. At this time, her son got up and went to the room to do homework. The mother-in-law put the remote control on the sofa on the coffee table.

Liu Miao took the remote control. What program she watched before had nothing to do with her. She pressed the button to find the TV series she liked to watch.

This is a day in this family. There is no ups and downs, no quarrels, no resistance to each other. Everything has become a habit of each other in the passage of time. Because she saw this scene and saw some bits and pieces of this family life in some fragmented plots, Xu Jinglei came to arrange everything according to her own habits. This home, except for the old man’s room, everything runs the way she wants.

The more plain, the more difficult it is to perform. When Xu Jinglei was trying to figure out the role, she was very sure that Liu Miao would surpass all the roles she had played before. There is no large amount of inner drama in the script for you to present. All inner dramas must be integrated into these seemingly trivial performances.

In order to perform well, Xu Jinglei even took out Chen Hao's previous works and looked through them many times, including Joker, Mr. Smith, Michael Scofield, Andy and even Charlotte. She found a very obvious feature of Chen Hao. No matter whether it was a film directed by him or not, his performance was not redundant at all. This redundant refers to the time taken up in the film.

Some shots that require eye contact, even in a time-constrained carrier like a movie, the director will give you a little time for close-up, so that you can perform to your heart's content. With Chen Hao, there is almost no such setting. He will not suddenly perform 200 points in one place, but will perform more than 100 points in all places. You must see his performance in full to know why he is successful.

Liu Miao was watching TV. The mother-in-law went to the gate of the yard to chat with the neighbors nearby. Everyone praised her daughter-in-law. The mother-in-law was also full of smiles, but the things in the depths of her eyes were not something that others could interpret.

At half past eight, Chen Bin returned home. His mother-in-law stopped chatting with the neighbors and followed her son into the house. As usual, Liu Miao would greet him at the door, but she would not take his handbag or help him hang his clothes. When there were no outsiders, Chen Bin would even take off his trousers at the door before entering the house.

Chen Bin walked to the kitchen, but Liu Miao did not come forward. Chen Bin remembered it when he walked into the kitchen, and said "oh", turned around, went to the door, opened the hanging handbag, and handed the income from today's special work to his wife: "There was a car accident today. We have been busy since morning, and the family gave a lot."

Liu Miao raised a smile at the corner of his mouth, took the money, and put it on the kitchen table: "I'll heat up the meal for you."

"Let me tell you, prices have risen again recently, and beef is even more expensive."

"Also, the refrigerator at home is not working properly. I have told you several times to fix it."

"I went to the city today and bought you a set of pajamas. I'll put them on and try them on later."

The head of the family just lowered his head and bent over, eating leftovers at the corner of the dining table. Whenever his wife said something, he would give a vague hum to indicate that he understood.

Only when he returns will Liu Miao talk more at home and turn into a nagging housewife. Far away, her mother-in-law, who is sitting on the sofa in the living room, stands up and walks towards her. Room.

"Mom, the hot water is ready for you." Liu Miao didn't look back. She didn't have eyes behind her back, but she didn't seem to need to see what was happening. The old lady responded, walked into the kitchen, and took out a small thermos pot. He got up and glanced at his son: "Eat slowly. The beef Xiaomiao cooked today is very good. Eat more."

Chen Bin then raised his head, glanced at his mother, and nodded.

After dinner, I went to my son's room to take a look. My son put a book under the textbook and looked slightly panicked.

I had a few chats with my son about life and study, but it was the same words every day. His adolescent son nodded his head but didn’t say a word. Chen Bin had no choice but to stand up and refused to watch the TV in the living room. He turned it off. I glanced at my wife who was cleaning up in the kitchen, walked into my room, and glanced at the new pajamas placed on the bedside. Although I had taken a shower before coming back, I walked into the bathroom in the room and rinsed it carefully again. When I came out, I put on new pajamas.

Liu Miao also entered the room at this time, holding the few thousand yuan in his hand and putting it in the drawer of the dressing table.

After washing, she turned off the lights in the room. Only the bedside lights on their respective beds were on. Chen Bin was reading a book and she lay down on her side.

In the clips in front of the script, life clips flash through at this rhythm every day. According to the audience's perception, if you don't look carefully at all this today, you will start to feel frowning. I don't know what this movie is about. Could it be that the parents are short-lived? .

Now it’s time for Liu Miao to turn off the lights and go to sleep, and Chen Bin to continue reading, right?

No.

When Liu Miao raised her hand to turn off her bedside lamp, Chen Bin suddenly turned around, propped himself up, looked at his wife from top to bottom, raised his hand, pulled his wife's hand back, and then gently brushed it He helped his wife arrange her hair very carefully and gently, then let her lie down and arranged her pajamas. Liu Miao wanted to say something, but Chen Bin's eyes changed when he turned around. He put his finger to his mouth and made a shushing gesture.

This is completely inconsistent with the normal status of this family. Isn't Liu Miao the king of the family? Isn't it all what she said? Including the scene that flashed in the previous plot, Chen Bin was obviously very tired and wanted to go home and want to sleep. When she was asked to do something, people above her had to force her to do it. Chen Bin's image is completely that of an honest man with no right to speak. What's going on?

Suspense, this is a small suspense that attracts the audience to watch, and with the excitement of the next scene, this suspense turns from small suspense to big suspense. Why are they getting along like this? What is the story here? ?

I saw Chen Bin take out an iron box from under his bedside table, which was more than ten centimeters square. After opening it, there was a complete set of makeup tools inside. He looked like he had found a treasure, and held it sacredly and solemnly. Using these tools, she gave Liu Miao an extremely delicate makeup. During the process, Liu Miao cooperated completely, and there was no emotion in her eyes. It seemed that after her husband showed that expression, the status of the two of them completely changed. of transfer.

"Today, that customer was miserable?" When Chen Bin was about to finish the work, Liu Miao suddenly said this.

"Perfect, just as perfect." Chen Bin seemed to be answering her, but also seemed to be talking to himself. His whole mental state suddenly became excited. He stood up on the bed, looked down at him, and murmured about perfection.

The next action was to kneel on the bed, with his knees close to the other person's shoulders, and his body moved forward. This action and the pajamas that had been thrown aside, although the design here in the script is that he grabbed the sheets with both hands and covered them both. , nothing is left to be described, but for anyone who sees the script and sees the movie in the future, they will know what happened.

Liu Miao's face was covered up by heavy makeup, which concealed the temperament of a good wife and mother. It was pale and cold and frightening. This was not makeup, it was makeup, but this makeup was for dead people. The strong and weak were reversed. With weak lights and small movements, the real curtain of this drama was announced to have officially opened.