Chapter 23 The twenty-second most classic old movie

Jie An saw Master Feng again last autumn, that afternoon Jie An was sweeping the yard when suddenly many pilgrims entered the temple.This kind of situation was extremely rare in the past. Generally speaking, there are more people who visit the temple and worship Buddha in the morning. Although there are people who come in the afternoon, most of them go down the mountain at three or four o'clock.Because although the hill where Jie Chen lives is not high, you need to walk down the mountain, and it will take some time for the benefactors who are not used to walking the mountain road to reach the foot of the mountain, and like these pilgrims, there are indeed not many people who come near dusk .

The benefactors were male and female, and different from the usual tour groups, these benefactors were all in their 30s and 40s, and one of them was a little unusual. He was carrying a very long bag with Like a thick stick. At first, Jie Chen thought that these people must be pilgrims visiting the Buddha from other places, because most of the local pilgrims came together by two or three people, and it was impossible to organize such a team of about 20 people, and some of them even recited With a big bag.But Jie Chen found out later that several of the people who came here were working in Miao Town.

Jie Chen asked several local benefactors. They said that they were all middle school students in the small town back then. It has been 20 years since they graduated. Gather in town. Jie Chen stared at the excited donors in a daze.Jie Chen understands this emotion, it is a kind of joy of reunion after a long absence, at this moment Ding Shizhu suddenly ran out from the crowd, walked up to Jie Chen and called Jie Chen's name. Jie Chen took a closer look at Ding Shizhu, he looked fat and fat, and he didn't know him.However, Jie An has always been not very confident in his memory, because Jie An can't remember people very well. There are benefactors who have been to the temple several times before chatting with Jie An, but Jie An can't remember who they are.

Junior Brother Jie Ao once suggested that if you meet a benefactor who can't remember the name, you must pretend that nothing happened, and then recall the other person's name during the conversation. If you still can't remember it, just talk about it. Topic, don't look at someone with a blank face like Jie Chen, the other party will feel very embarrassed. It's a pity that Jie Chen's reaction is rather slow, so usually after the benefactors whose names were forgotten by Jie Chen showed resentment, Jie Chen remembered Junior Brother Jie Ao's suggestion, and it was already too late.

But donor Ding was not too embarrassed that day. He smiled and said, "Jie An doesn't know me, right? I'm donor Ding. I haven't seen you in ten years. My weight has only increased by more than forty catties. You don't know me." gone?" Suddenly, Jie Chen recognized Ding Shizhu.The two have known each other almost ten years ago, when Jie Chen was still relatively young, and Donor Ding was working in a small town enterprise, and he came to the temple more often, so Jie Chen and him were considered familiar.It's just that ten years have passed, and Ding Shizhu's appearance has changed a lot. Jie Chen remembers that his face was thin and thin in the past, which was a typical melon-seed face, but now he is also a melon-seed face, but it has evolved from sunflower seeds to pumpkin seeds.Jie Chen tried hard to think back, and the memories of the past emerged little by little, and Ding Shizhu's facial features gradually matched the impressions. Of course, these facial features, which were closely arranged on the face back then, are now much looser.

Ding Shizhu said: "This class reunion is only for one day. During the day, we visited the old school in the town, and also went to some places where we played when we were children, and ate local dishes. I plan to live in a guest room in the temple, and I also plan to play an old movie I loved watching when I was in school." After listening to Ding Shizhu's introduction, Jie Chen suddenly realized that the long bag he saw just now should not be a stick, but something like a curtain.And the large bags carried by those donors may contain laptops and projectors. Donor Ding later confirmed that Jie’an’s guess was right. Jie’an was curious about what movie had such a great charm, so that the donors took the trouble to go up the mountain with their equipment on their backs.

Ding Shizhu said that it was a well-known movie in the early 1980s——"Shaolin Temple". Ding Shizhu also said that nowadays more and more movies are made, but there are very few good-looking ones.Watching movies now, I have long lost the feeling of watching "Shaolin Temple" back then, so tonight, everyone will reminisce about the real classics together, and they specially chose Tianming Temple as the venue for the broadcast, and they also hope to play in the temple environment. Playing can better understand the artistic conception of the movie. Jie Chen also knew about the movie "Shaolin Temple" that Donor Ding mentioned, but Jie Chen hadn't been born when that movie was popular, and although he heard it mentioned by others in the chat later, he hadn't actually seen it.But Ding Shizhu and his old classmates were looking forward to it very much, and they were excitedly chatting about the movies of that period.

When night fell, Donor Ding set up the curtain and started playing the movie.Jie Chen was very curious and squeezed into the crowd.This opportunity is very rare, because the masters do not support everyone to watch movies that involve fighting and killing. It is a rare opportunity to watch martial arts movies blatantly like today. with an attitude of reflection and disapproval. After showing the movie for a while, Jie Chen found that it was actually not as good as he had imagined.Not only is the shooting quality of the movie much worse than today's movies, but the performances of the movie actors are also slightly contrived, and the plot of the movie is not special.

Jie Chen once thought that maybe Jie Chen couldn't understand the taste of people in that era!After a while, Jie Chen found that the benefactors who had been looking forward to the movie began to show impatience. When the movie was about a third of the time, some of the benefactors went back to the house to rest one after another. When the movie was halfway through, Even Ding Shizhu, who had bragged about the movie before, started to yawn. In fact, in the process of this matter, there is a little refraining from anger. After more than 20 years of time, the movies that made the benefactors crazy in the past are no longer in line with today's aesthetic standards. The benefactors did genuinely love it.

Sometimes Jie Chen thinks, if there is a chance, the movies filmed in modern times can be played 20 years ago, then these movies with poor reputation may be able to win a lot of applause. Therefore, Jiechen believes that during the journey of time, most of the time, our surrounding environment and life are improving a little bit.But our sense of happiness never seems to increase with the improvement of life, that is because our desires increase with the changes of our abilities and environment all the time. If we think back to the past, maybe we will find that the life that makes us unsatisfied today is actually what we dreamed of back then.

Knowing how to objectively evaluate our own living conditions may become the source of our happiness.