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After returning from Shanghai, Fang Yuan became a junior in college.

With not much to do in the second half of the year, Fang Yuan began to devote most of his energy to studying.

During the day, attend classes and complete assignments.

I start writing in the evening.

At the end of September, he uploaded two novels to Rongshuxia: "If You Are the One" and "A Sigh".

"A Sigh": The heavy breathing between a wife and her lover.

Writer Liang Yazhou is caught in a dilemma between his wife Song Xiaoying and his lover Li Xiaodan.

After his wife suffered an accidental fall, he truly understood how difficult it was for her while he was taking care of the family.

At the end of the film, a phone call that suddenly rings suggests that the crisis in his heart is far from over.

The line in the film, "When I touch your hand at night, it feels like touching my own, without any sensation. But if I were to saw off your hand, it would hurt just as much as sawing off my own," perfectly captures the numbness, dependence, and entanglement of middle-aged men in their marriages.

"If You Are the One": Finding true love amidst the farcical blind date.

Qin Fen, a "leftover man" who returned from overseas, became rich overnight and started looking for a wife. Along the way, he met Liang Xiaoxiao, a beautiful woman who was deeply in love with a married man.

Qin Fen used his kindness, humor, and tolerance to accompany Xiaoxiao to Hokkaido, helping her to break free from the past.

In the end, Qin Fen's sincerity helped Xiaoxiao get out of her emotional turmoil, and the two found their true love.

From then on, "If You Are the One" became a well-known cultural symbol.

In my previous life, I was involved in all of Director Feng's works.

Interestingly, they are like two sides of the same coin: one side is the oppression and heaviness of the real-life marriage, and the other side is the romance and warmth of using humor to resolve heartbreak.

The two films were released eight years apart, but both focus on extramarital affairs, and their styles are strikingly contrasting, one serious and the other humorous.

Fang Yuan's pen name under the banyan tree was "Tomato Scrambled Eggs".

Two short stories were written to test the waters first.

Zhu Weilian and Chen Cun both called to express their gratitude.

The planned book releases for next year, including the three Hunger Games books and The Martian, have been revised and improved.

He's considering adding something else.

Finally, the choices were Passengers and Arrival.

Passengers is a love story set against a grand sci-fi backdrop, exploring themes of extreme loneliness and human struggle. The film boasts top-tier Hollywood production values ​​and delivers stunning visual spectacle.

A Stockholm syndrome-like romance sparked by loneliness.

In the distant future, a spaceship called "Avalon" is carrying 5000 passengers and more than 200 crew members on a 120-year interstellar migration.

Only 30 years into the journey, mechanical engineer Jim's hibernation pod malfunctioned due to an asteroid impact, causing him to be prematurely awakened alone.

This means he will spend the rest of his life alone on the spaceship.

After a year of despair, struggle, and even a suicide attempt, Jim sees the beautiful writer Aurora in the hibernation pod. After a painful moral dilemma, he finally wakes Aurora and lies to her, saying it was also an accident.

The two met and fell in love in the vast universe, but the well-intentioned lie was eventually exposed.

When Arthur accidentally revealed the truth to Aurora, their relationship instantly broke down.

However, at this point, the spacecraft began to experience frequent malfunctions and faced collapse.

At the critical moment, Captain Gus Mancuso was also awakened, and in his final moments, he guided Jim and Aurora to find a way to repair the ship.

Faced with a life-or-death crisis, the two put aside their differences, and Jim ultimately sacrificed his life to fix the malfunction, thus achieving personal redemption.

At the end of the story, Aurora chooses to give up her only chance to re-enter hibernation and decides to spend the rest of her life with Jim on the spaceship.

Eighty-eight years later, when the spaceship arrived at its destination, Homeworld 2, the crew and passengers awoke to find that the spaceship had been transformed into a vibrant little world because of their lives.

Passengers received polarized reviews from audiences and the media.

However, the film's technical production was highly praised and it received two nominations at the 89th Academy Awards: Best Art Direction and Best Original Score.

Arrival is a science fiction film released in the same year as Passengers, but with a completely different feel.

If Passengers is a Hollywood romance about loneliness and choice, then Arrival is more like a quiet and profound philosophical poem.

It is adapted from the short story "Story of Your Life" by Chinese-American science fiction writer Ted Chiang, and explores the meaning of language, time and life in an unprecedented way.

The story of Arrival is essentially about "linguistics saving the world," unfolding through three interconnected layers:

First Contact: Establishing Communication

Twelve alien spaceships land on Earth, and linguist Louise Banks and physicist Ian Donnelly are tasked with communicating with the alien beings known as the "Heptapods."

They discovered that its written language is a "symbiotic language" that is free from the constraints of linear time—all information is presented at the same instant.

Echoes of Time: A Reshaping of Thinking

As her studies deepen, Louise begins to experience "time flashes," constantly seeing future memories, the core of which is the complete life of herself and a daughter who will be born in the future.

The film reveals the "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis"—mastering a new language reshapes thinking, granting her non-linear thinking abilities like a heptapod, simultaneously perceiving the past, present, and future.

Ultimate Choice: Knowing the joys and sorrows, still moving forward:

In the climax of the story, Louise uses her ability to foresee the future to make a crucial phone call, successfully persuading General Shang of China to share information and defuse a global military conflict.

She also foresaw that this decision would lead her to meet Ian and have a daughter, and that she would inevitably experience the immense pain of separation from her lover and the loss of her daughter.

However, she still chooses to embrace the future.

This raises a profound question: Do we really possess free will?

Her choice conveys a powerful message: even if life is destined to end in tragedy, the love and beauty along the way are worth bravely pursuing.

Arrival received widespread acclaim from the media and audiences, and was hailed as one of the best science fiction films of the year.

They shone during awards season and received recognition from numerous top awards.

Academy Awards (89th): Received 8 nominations, including major awards such as Best Picture and Best Director, and ultimately won the Best Sound Editing award.

Other important awards:

It won numerous nominations and awards, including the 75th Hugo Award for Best Feature Film, the BAFTA Award for Best Sound, the American Film Institute's Top Ten Films of the Year, and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

This publishing plan includes a total of six works.

Fang Yuan barely managed to finish it by the end of the year.

I also considered publishing it domestically, but then I thought better of it, as it would be too easy to cause public controversy.

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