The bustle of drinking and laughing is surging slowly in the rich night, less cheerful and noisy, more lazy and comfortable. The relaxation after three rounds of drinking makes the welcome party more free and friendly, carefully putting down the formality and constraints, and chatting freely.
This is the intention of the welcome party. Next, the whole crew needs to work together for a long time. Even if they can't be friends, they should at least establish a harmonious cooperative relationship. Otherwise, the shooting of the film will become a kind of torment. It's still a small thing. It's a big thing to directly screw up the film.
Nina Parker's cheeks were red and her hair was hot. She drank a little too much tonight, and then she began to regret. She really shouldn't have drunk the third glass of red wine - if only two, she could still stay awake, but now she faintly noticed that her head began to sink and her feet began to drift.
This immediately sounded the alarm. She didn't want to make a fool of herself at the party. She didn't forget that she and her team were still on the high attention list of the cast, and they were still classified as the legitimate members of the "Thomas Toure faction". If she didn't pay any attention, she might lose her job.
In the past two months or so, it seems that the whole crew has forgotten, or even no one has mentioned it at all, just like the rose and RV never happened, just like the internal struggle between Thomas Toure and Langley never happened, and the happy atmosphere of cooperation with the crew, Let people completely forget the large-scale staff change incident before the official shooting, but Nina did not forget.
And she couldn't forget.
Because all those things were handled by her, and even the negative comments about lanli were first spread from her team. All of them, Nina stands at the front line and has experienced them for the first time. For others, it may be just a rumor; But for her, it was an experience of walking on thin ice. Even for a long time, she did not dare to face up to Lan Li.
Until now, Nina has been constantly reminding herself: Langley is not a fool, on the contrary, Langley is very, very smart, even smart enough to make people scared. A minion like her can't and doesn't want to offend Lan Li, otherwise the result will never be so good.
Nina is not interested in assigning teams. She leads a small team. She just wants to finish her work conscientiously. She doesn't want to make further contact or fly to the sky. Her dream is very small. It's enough to have her own life. Therefore, she doesn't need to go up the river, In the present situation, she has been very satisfied.
The shooting in Hawaii is over, and Nina's team has followed the crew to Louisiana, where they will continue to work in New Orleans.
Although the cooperation between lanli and the whole crew has been very smooth and interesting during this period of time, the pranks about lanli have been passed down from mouth to mouth. I have heard a lot about them, and the staff of the crew all like lanli very much; But Nina is the exception. She doesn't have any opinions about Langley. She just doesn't want to be prejudiced. If it's prejudiced, it's better to regard her as prejudiced, because she's really afraid.
Now Nina's only hope is to avoid Langley, avoid conflict, safely complete the New Orleans part of the shooting, end all the work of "Jurassic world", and then walk away; In the future, it's better never to meet with lanli again, not even to work together.
Can't get up, can't you hide?
Looking around for a week, Nina was always on the alert for lanli's figure, but because of the alcohol on her brain, her attention dropped seriously, and she couldn't find her figure in the bustling crowd. She just saw a bright spot, as if the whole world were blurred, leaving only a gorgeous halo.
She needs to sober up.
Nina carefully conceals her tracks, nods her head with a smile, pretends that she is on her way to find "someone" to chat, quietly leaves the party and comes to the balcony outside the hotel room. The fresh air blows on her face, and her head wakes up in a moment.
Naturally, the night in New Orleans can't be compared with that in New York, but compared with the peaceful Honolulu, the bustle and noise of the city become more real. The colorful lights reflect the stars in the sky, and the hazy halo vaguely depicts the appearance of the night. Even if you stay on the top floor of the hotel, you can't catch the noise downstairs, It can still outline the unique landscape of the city, which may represent a party, a family, or a job... The night is deep, and the city is still not sleeping.
Standing on the balcony, Nina's hot cheek cools slightly, and the wind of hunting brings her singing. She takes it for granted that it's the music from the party. She looks back towards the hall, and then realizes that it's the dance music left behind, And the melodies in my ears are slightly sad and lonely, which are obviously two different things.
"Mmm... Mmm..."
That low humming has no lyrics, but can find a trace of softness in the simple musical notation.
"... I still remember sitting in the back of a taxi, losing control, and then getting back together in the sixth floor apartment you used to own; Between the subway stations, your head is on my shoulder and you can't wake up; We use photos to record those moments, hang up, once thought that is eternal, time is always fixed.
Until that night in Brooklyn. "
The ambiguous song pulled Nina's ear, slowly, slowly trying to get close to it. The melody that seemed to dissipate at any time in the wind suddenly fell in her heart. There was no crying or tearing. Only a faint loss made Nina feel sad.
Reluctant to part, those fragmented memories awakened the weakness of the inner part, and then ruthless and reduced to fragments, hidden in the song of the natural and relieved, but it revealed the uneasy and lonely, like the smell of cigarettes wrapped around fingertips, that is, the use of soap can not be washed away, that is, the use of perfume can not be covered up, it remains like that. Always remind the heart of those wounds, is still not healing.
"When we say something we shouldn't, the communication bridge between us is just like a piece of wood; Now I'll never go to Brooklyn again, as if nothing ever happened, and we just fall and fall to pieces, and now we'll never talk, now... We'll never talk. "
Nina could not help but slightly opened her mouth, trying to say something, only to find that there was no voice - not sadness, not pain, not bitterness, just... Helplessness and sigh.
"No more talking" is like "no more going to Brooklyn". The bridge between them is burned up, and then they can't go back. How resolute, decisive and cruel, they cut off the way between Brooklyn and Manhattan, and put the bottom of the river into an island.
It's just a sentence "never talk again", but it makes me feel frustrated in my heart.
"Since Brooklyn." The light husky man said two words in a low voice, "since Brooklyn", without the rendering of melody, but let the emotion hidden in the voice line slowly dense, burst out an unspeakable mixture, large gray with the night wind surging, instantly engulfed Nina and widened her eyes, Then there was a surge in the stomach.
She didn't know whether it was alcohol, emotional agitation, or both.
Then Nina saw the figure of the man hidden in the night. The light and shadow outlined the outline of the face. At this time, her sparse eyebrows were stained with a layer of deep fatigue. The strong night was eating his soul crazily and wantonly, and seemed to be able to resist the wind at any time, Like a wisp of smoke like this dissipated without a trace.
It's Langley hall.
Nina was so shocked that it was lanli! How could it be Langley? And it's also a kind of Langley that she has never seen or understood.
"Sitting in the park until night falls, we confide in each other's secrets; There are soft cushions on the roof, and we depict Saturn's rings in detail. You are wearing my coat like a uniform, with your collar up and your sleeves up; Between the crisscross blocks, we are heart to heart, we hand in hand pledge never to separate, we will never separate.
Until that night in Brooklyn. "
The vicissitudes of the voice is still humming, hiding the loneliness and loneliness in the night slowly spread, firmly grasp Nina's ankle, let her unable to move, there is no way to move forward, there is no way to escape, just like a fool is fixed in the original place.
This is not Langley.
Or, what does the real blue rite look like? The gentleman and polite man in the media? The thunderous man in the crew? The man who was so absorbed in the show? The laughing man at the party? Or... The lonely man in the night?
She doesn't understand. She really doesn't understand. Every time when she thought she had seen the real face of Lan Li clearly, she was always able to discover other truths again, just like the vast ocean, vast and ethereal. She was just a tiny mole ant and could never understand his truth.
Or, can anyone understand?
"Oh, it seems that I have an audience here. If you don't mind, I'll say hello first, and then we'll continue... No, no, I think it's ok..." lanli's singing was interrupted, and she began to smile, which immediately made Nina incarnate from head to foot into an ice sculpture.
finished!
Note: Brooklyn - Patrick druney