Chapter 1648 "The Future You Choose" Movie

The movie ended.

The audience in the theater immediately started chattering.

"What was the movie trying to say at the end? I didn't get it."

"Haven't you read the original novel?"

"No, I just saw the massive online promotion recently and came to see it."

"Sigh, the things this movie is trying to express are too profound. It's normal not to understand it after just one viewing. It's okay, go find some movie reviews when you get back. Anyway, I was very touched after watching it. It's truly a good movie with profound ideas."

"Yeah, especially that rich man's speech at the end really made my teeth itch with hatred. But there's absolutely nothing you can do about him."

"I didn't expect it. I thought this sci-fi movie would be another terrible one, but I didn't expect them to actually film the story of the original work so well. The director deserves a lot of credit."

The audience at the midnight showing gave it high praise.

Although many viewers couldn't accurately grasp the details in the movie, most people could feel the core message it conveyed.

Pei Qian slowly got up and followed the others out, thinking silently in his heart: Stable!

He didn't expect the Anti-Tengda Alliance and Fanqi Media to actually release a movie of such high quality.

Not only was the production excellent, but the core of the story was very solid.

After all, it was a classic science fiction novel that had stood the test of time.

In this science fiction story, it actually put forward a very terrifying prediction, which included the following points:

First, wealth is becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few people, and this speed is gradually accelerating.

In reality, the wealthy in some Central American countries actually have a net worth equivalent to 10% of the entire country's GDP.

Second, the division between rich and poor will lead to physiological differentiation.

In the story, with the continuous advancement of technology, a large amount of knowledge can be obtained through education chips, which leads to huge differences in knowledge, insights, and ways of thinking between those who have wealth and those who do not.

In the end, the poor and the rich become two different species. The poor are reduced to meaningless garbage to the whole society, while the rich possess all the good and kind qualities.

And in reality, the rich provide a lot of sponsorship to enable their children to obtain top-notch educational opportunities, which is actually a prototype of some kind of physiological differentiation.

Third, an unregulated free market will allow the desire for capital appreciation to expand unprecedentedly, and ultimately lead to completely uncontrollable results.

In the story, land, air, and even all resources become privatized, then the vast majority of people will eventually be deprived of the right to obtain these resources.

Similarly, whether the iron rule that the oxygen protection system and the enforcement unit firmly defend, "private property is sacred and inviolable," is valid under any circumstances is also a big question mark.

In short, this movie is completely on point in terms of its spiritual core. In Pei Qian's view, it is no less than "The Future You Choose", and even surpasses it in some aspects.

And what surprised Pei Qian the most was that this movie seemed to be secretly taking a jab at Tengda Group.

The rich man in the movie is obviously the ultimate winner and the biggest object of criticism. If you want to find a corresponding image in the real world, then Tengda Group is obviously the most suitable.

This rich man started from scratch and is smart and capable. He didn't get much help from his parents. He was able to become the ultimate winner because of his intelligence.

This is very much in line with the image of President Pei in most people's minds.

Moreover, this rich man's industry started from the bottom and gradually rose to other industries, and gradually monopolized the vast majority of industries on the entire planet.

This is very similar to the Tengda Group, which is constantly expanding into different industries.

So if this movie is meant to be an allegory of a real-world company, it is an allegory of Tengda Group.

The meaning expressed is also very clear.

Other companies only monopolize a specific field, but what Tengda Group is seeking is the occupation of all industries and all fields. In fact, President Pei does have this ability, because he is a business genius.

This is even more dangerous.

If Tengda is allowed to continue to develop and grow, the situation in the movie may occur. The legitimate rights and interests of ordinary people are encroached upon, and the resources that should be enjoyed naturally are swallowed up and become the company property of Tengda Group, and even President Pei's personal property.

Of course, all viewers certainly know in their hearts that it is impossible for reality to become like the movie. After all, there is no oxygen protection system in reality, nor are there education chips. What's more, the situations in the two worlds are completely different and cannot be generalized.

But in any case, the idea that an inflated Tengda Group will cause harm has been subtly buried in the hearts of the audience.

This kind of subconsciousness cannot be easily eliminated.

For those companies in the Anti-Tengda Alliance, it was a good counterattack.

If the argument that "all crows under the sky are equally black" holds true, then it is actually an improvement in the image of these companies, which can also be said to be their "low-quality advantage."

Pei Qian couldn't help but silently give a thumbs up. He really wanted to give a thumbs up to the Anti-Tengda Alliance, especially Fanqi Media.

He didn't expect that in such an unfavorable situation at the beginning, you were still able to turn the tide of public opinion back. It's really gratifying and congratulatory.

Thinking of this, Pei Qian happily went home to sleep.

After getting up tomorrow, he would have lunch and then go to see "The Future You Choose" in the afternoon.

With the Anti-Tengda Alliance smearing Tengda, and himself smearing himself with double insurance, there shouldn't be any more problems, right?

…

While Pei Qian was watching the midnight showing of "My Property" in a local Beijing movie theater, Nie Yuncheng and Lu Xiaoping were also in a movie theater in Shanghai, watching the midnight showing of "The Future You Choose."

Standard, all-tactics converters.

For Lu Xiaoping and others, they were full of confidence in the movie "My Property", so naturally they didn't need to watch it again.

But after all, "The Future You Choose" had already won the Golden Lion Award, and it was released later than the game, so there must be some special considerations. Maybe it was President Pei's last trump card, so they couldn't ignore it.

Several bosses generously booked a private room in the movie theater, and each of them had a serious expression and was fully focused.

For them, this was simply a battlefield without gunpowder.

Soon, the movie began.

…

The movie opens with a distant view of a grand city.

This city looks very technologically advanced, with countless skyscrapers towering into the clouds, and various colorful neon lights making the whole city look prosperous and lively.

There is a thin layer of clouds at the waist of these skyscraper building complexes, which seems to divide these buildings into two sections.

The camera slowly swoops down towards the clouds, coming to the sky above the city.

You can see various flying cars shuttling between the skyscrapers. Through the large floor-to-ceiling windows in the upper part of the buildings, you can see upper-class people in various high-end restaurants and other social places wearing suits and beautiful evening dresses, toasting and talking happily.

Some skyscrapers also have the offices or residences of the rich on the top floors.

In some high-end apartment buildings, the rich can have several floors of housing and can also have artificial lawns and swimming pools. Just a glimpse can make you feel a sense of prosperity and wealth.

Then the camera begins to descend rapidly, passing through the clouds at the waist of the skyscrapers.

At the moment of passing through the clouds, you can see some special devices at the waist of the buildings, spraying some white flocculent smoke outwards to maintain this cloud layer.

And after passing through the clouds, the real landscape of the whole city is presented to everyone.

Congested ground traffic, dilapidated old streets, wandering and homeless vagrants, frequent outbreaks of violence, and even shooting activities…

The upper and lower parts of the clouds seem to be divided into two completely different worlds.

And in this process, the billboards that can be seen everywhere on those buildings leave a deep impression on the audience.

These billboards are all the industry logos of Tengda Group, which are somewhat similar to the logos in reality, but some different changes have been made according to the style of this world.

This feeling is as if the entire city has been occupied by the Tengda Group.

The camera continues to move down, passing through the chaotic blocks and finally arriving at a dark underground passage.

Three people are clumsily and fiercely fighting each other.

Their movements are very disorganized, and they have obviously not systematically learned any fighting techniques. The fight is not aesthetically pleasing at all.

But in the process of fighting, they are constantly attacking each other's vital points and using all the weapons they can get around them, which is both funny and fierce.

One of the young men is obviously fighting two enemies alone. But he is like a trapped beast, fiercely baring his teeth and claws, and has not fallen into a disadvantage.

The other two looked at each other, and one of them took out a dagger from his arms.

However, the young man did not turn around and run away, but rushed up even more desperately.

Although the scene was very chaotic, it could be seen that the young man was not just brave and lacking in strategy. He used all means, including his teeth, in the battle, and obviously wanted to solve the enemy holding the dagger first.

Even if the enemy behind him punched and kicked him, he just endured it.

In the end, at the cost of being stabbed twice in his left hand and left shoulder, the young man bit the other person's right wrist tightly with his teeth and snatched the dagger away.

Then. He stabbed the enemy's carotid artery to death with one knife.

Another enemy wanted to escape, but the young man didn't give him the chance, but quickly caught up and stabbed him in the back of the heart with one knife.

After solving these two enemies, the young man collapsed on the ground. He covered the wound on his left arm with his right hand and gasped for breath.

Before, the light in the underground passage was relatively dark, so everyone did not see the three people clearly, and could only vaguely see their outlines. They could only feel the intensity of the fight between the three people through the sounds.

But at this time, it seemed that a train happened to be passing by outside. In the rumbling sound of the train. Light shone in, making the entire underground passage bright and dark.

Only then did everyone see clearly that these three people who dedicated the opening fight scene to the entire movie were actually three homeless people.

They were all ragged, disheveled, and had nothing of value on them. They were lying in the shadows of the underground passage, and they would not be discovered if you didn't look carefully.

And the young man's face was finally shown to the audience.

Many people didn't even realize that this was actually Lu Zhiyao!

Because Lu Zhiyao's appearance in this movie is completely different from his original image. His hair is very long and looks like it hasn't been cut for a long time, and it is matted together because of the dirt.

There are two scars on his face, making him look hideous. One of the scars also scratched his left eye, and at this time, there was only a milky white, turbid prosthetic eye in his left eye socket. It looked a bit like the image of ancient pirates in some movies.

The changes in his clothes, appearance, and expressions made him unlike himself, but more like a homeless man who had just killed someone.

He groped around on the body of the homeless man holding the knife, searched out a few pills, and swallowed them directly. After groping around again, he found a small but ugly stone carving.

This is a very ordinary stone, the material has no special features, it is not jade or emerald, nor is it any precious metal. Nor does it have exquisite carving skills, but it just carves this stone into a circle and ties it up with a thin rope.

This circle is irregular, some places are thick and some places are thin. Although it seems to have become smooth due to being worn for a long time, it does not feel like it has any value from any angle.

The protagonist skillfully retied the broken string and brought it back to his neck, close to his chest.

Then he patted his chest, seemingly a little relieved that he had successfully snatched the stone back.

After doing all this, he tore off a few pieces of rags, simply bandaged the wound, and then limped towards the exit of the underground passage.

The camera turns to an abandoned food processing plant underground.

This place seems to have been transformed into a gathering place for underground gangs. Many fierce-looking gang members are smoking and drinking while watching the cheap burlesque performance on the stage.

But the music from outside can only be heard faintly in a certain room next door, which is very quiet.

"No criminal record?"

The fierce-looking gang boss was a little surprised and a little contemptuous in his words. He snuffed out the cigar he was holding. His mechanical prosthetic eye, which had been modified to be bright red. lifted up and shined on Lu Zhiyao standing opposite him.

Lu Zhiyao didn't have much expression on his face: "There is now, but it hasn't been recorded yet. I killed two people."

The gang boss looked him up and down and suddenly smiled. "Not bad."

…

Next, the protagonist played by Lu Zhiyao mingled in the street gang and began to do some petty theft and street trading.

Even if it's just a simple errand, it's likely to encounter danger at any time, and it's a narrow escape.

However, although he was injured many times, the protagonist survived tenaciously, earned a lot of money, and also modified his mechanical prosthetic eye and some other prosthetic limbs.

In this process, the protagonist occasionally took out the circular stone. However, these scenes became less and less frequent.

The movie also explained the origin of this stone through some memories. When the protagonist was seriously injured and dying several times, some memory scenes flashed in his mind.

In the dimly lit basement where he once lived with his single mother, because he lacked toys, his mother would pick up various stones everywhere and carve them into different toys for him.

However, the so-called carving was nothing more than using a low-quality carving knife to slightly modify the shape of the stone itself into a barely passable appearance.

Then, the mother would use her wild imagination to think of a bedtime story for this statue to coax him to sleep.

There were cunning and fierce wolves, bravely fighting soldiers, high-ranking flying cars. There is also the sun hanging high in the sky.

However, the shapes of these statues are very different from the images of real things. Even if the name is told in advance, it is necessary to contact them together at a specific angle through a very strong association ability.

For the protagonist, the image of the sun is more difficult to understand than those other images, because there is always a layer of white clouds in the sky. Although the sunlight can shine in, he has never seen what the real sun looks like.

Finally, one day, the seriously ill mother handed a ring-shaped stone to the protagonist.

Then she told him that this was a lucky stone and a wealth stone. As long as he wears it, good luck and wealth will come to him.

Be a kind person and don't hurt others, so that the lucky stone will always bless him.

A few days later, the mother passed away. The person collecting the rent came to the basement and rudely threw everything inside onto the street, emptying it out for the next tenant who could afford the rent.

And those stones that the protagonist had carefully collected and placed in a small box were also rudely thrown onto the street, and the ground was full of pebbles that were washed away without a trace along the underground drainage ditches.