I am a historical film director in the entertainment industry.

On the screen, the creative team stood up to accept the award, and the audience erupted in applause.

As Cheng Sheng looked at the film information on the screen, a complete memory of the movie instantly surfaced in his mind.

This is a realistic masterpiece with great social critique. The story revolves around the life-changing situation of single mother Angie after losing her job. With nowhere else to turn, she joins hands with her friend Ross to open a job placement agency. In the hope of making a living and saving herself, she unexpectedly glimpses the truth about the survival of the working class and exposes the industry chaos of the current society, such as the illegal exploitation of foreign workers' wages and the oppression of the working class.

The film uses the daily plight of ordinary people as a starting point to profoundly reflect the real living conditions of migrant workers who are displaced and oppressed under the free capitalist economic system. It also sharply criticizes the extreme egoism and indifferent interpersonal relationships that have emerged in society after the spread of neoliberalism.

In terms of artistic expression, this film is textbook-worthy. The crew filmed in multiple countries, maximizing the recreation of authentic social environments and regional landscapes. Abandoning fancy film filters, the entire film was shot using natural light, resulting in an extremely realistic cinematic style that produces a quality comparable to a documentary, maximizing the authenticity and immersion of the story.

The film's artistic structure is highly harmonious, with the camera work, performances, and soundtrack all working seamlessly together.

Kelstone Wolling delivers a nuanced and precise performance, perfectly portraying the multifaceted personality of the protagonist amidst life's pressures and human struggles, weaving together vulnerability and resilience, kindness and compromise, creating a vivid and three-dimensional character.

The film's cinematography adheres firmly to a realistic tone, without any deliberate dramatic embellishment, moving the audience through its authentic visual language.

The film features several large-scale group scenes with intense conflicts, which are well-directed, paced, and presented in an orderly manner, accurately showcasing the diverse lives of people from different social classes.

The film's soundtrack is a brilliant touch, a blend of gentleness and coldness that perfectly complements the multifaceted nature of the story's themes. It doesn't overshadow the main content, but rather precisely enhances the emotions.

The film's many high-quality elements complement each other, allowing it to subtly integrate profound political and social issues into the everyday lives, joys and sorrows of ordinary people, revealing the big picture through small details and demonstrating great depth.

It's also worth mentioning the film's director, Ken Loach, a veteran British director who is a true powerhouse in the film industry with a profound background.

Just last year, he won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival with "The Wind Blows the Wheat". He is a regular at the three major European film festivals. His aesthetics, narratives and themes are highly recognized by international film critics. This time, winning the Best Screenplay Award is well-deserved.

With the Best Screenplay Award being presented, the atmosphere at the event became incredibly lively.

Everyone knew that what followed was the most anticipated and prestigious award of this year's film festival.

The Best Actress Award, Best Actor Award, Best Director Award, Jury Special Award, and the most prestigious Golden Lion Award for Best Film, the five awards are yet to be announced, each captivating the attention of the entire cast and crew and the audience watching on screen.

The camera work was extremely fluid, demonstrating the director's keen understanding of the audience's psychology. While the award presenters were giving their usual polite speeches and making irrelevant opening remarks, the camera quickly panned across the audience of the heavyweight artists nominated for the main competition, accurately capturing the expressions of each award nominee.

The actresses nominated for Best Actress are all top-tier actresses from around the world.

As the camera panned across the screen, everyone maintained a perfect on-screen presence, their eyes revealing barely concealed tension and trepidation, yet their faces still wore elegant and composed smiles. When they saw the camera pointed at them, they would gently raise their hands in greeting, displaying graceful and poised manners.

"It's Twins! Cheng Sheng, look! It's Gillian Chung and Charlene Choi!" When the camera panned to a familiar pair of faces, Da Tian Tian's eyes lit up instantly. She pointed at the screen and exclaimed excitedly, her voice full of joy: "I love their songs so much! I never thought they'd both be nominated for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival!" Li Xiaoran looked at the two looking radiant on the screen and couldn't help but sigh: "They're really lucky. Just a while ago, the whole internet was buzzing about their new film. Because of its explicit content, countless people were boycotting and criticizing it, and it looked like it was about to completely collapse. But who would have thought that the film would be nominated for the main competition at the Venice Film Festival? The online sentiment changed instantly, from widespread boycott to widespread praise and adoration. If the two of them really win the Best Actress award, they'll definitely take off in the domestic entertainment industry and even the international film scene, with resources coming their way."

Upon hearing this, Cheng Sheng smiled faintly, his eyes calm and undisturbed.

He saw things clearly. While "Blue Is the Warmest Color" did break with convention in its explicit content, it was fundamentally different from "Lust, Caution."

Most of the explicit scenes in the film were achieved through misaligned shooting and selective camera angles, and were not as exaggerated as rumored, nor did they involve any real sacrifices.

As for Twins' luck, whether it's good or bad, it's still hard to say.

Even before the two officially announced the filming of this movie, the public opinion storm never stopped.

Countless fans found it hard to accept that their pure idol was making a performance that crossed the line, leading to a mass exodus of fans, the deletion of merchandise, and the departure of support groups. The fan community was completely plunged into moral disillusionment, and the internet was flooded with doubts, accusations, and ridicule. If it were an artist with poor mental fortitude, they would probably have been crushed by the public opinion long ago.

Cheng Sheng understands the fans' mentality very well. What the vast majority of fans pursue is the perfect persona, beautiful fantasy, and pure feeling of being able to admire from afar but not touch, carefully crafted by their idols.

In the conservative cultural context and strict censorship environment of East Asia, once an idol crosses the line to appear in film and television works, it will completely shatter the filter in the hearts of fans, trigger strong moral conflicts, and the loss of fans and boycotts have become the norm.

Twins were able to stabilize the situation for two reasons. First, they had a strong enough mentality to withstand the pressure of being attacked by the entire internet. Second, and most importantly, they caught a good opportunity, thanks in large part to Zhao.

Zhao Guo's popularity far surpasses that of Twins, and the scale and controversy surrounding "Lust, Caution" far exceed those of "Blue Is the Warmest Color".

It was precisely because Zhao's immense popularity swept up all the negative public opinion that the public's attention was diverted, greatly weakening the controversy surrounding Twins and preventing them from being besieged by the entire internet.

If it weren't for Zhao drawing the fire first, it would be the two of them who are being criticized and caught in the vortex of public opinion right now.

Even so, winning the Best Actress award remains an extremely difficult task.

Cheng Sheng's gaze fell on a blonde beauty on the screen, his eyes filled with understanding and certainty.

He is not optimistic about Twins' chances of winning the award.

This year's Best Actress competition is dominated by a top-tier powerhouse—Cate Blanchett.

Those in the industry jokingly call her "the human wrench" and "the queen of the lesbian community," and she's also widely recognized as a Hollywood powerhouse. (End of Chapter)