Darkstone Code

Chapter 1349: Chapter 1348: Adult Art Film

Every summer vacation becomes the time when various industries perform best because the consumer desires of the student group start to bloom.

Students take temporary jobs during this time and then spend all their money, which is one of the characteristics of the Federation.

Most students, especially high school students, look for short-term temporary jobs during the holidays. Their work capabilities aren’t much worse than some ordinary employees, but their salary levels are lower than those of regular employees.

For capitalists, as long as they can save costs, even if it’s just a dollar, it’s a victory!

So a large number of high school students earn a sum of money through odd jobs, money that is actually not much, and they won’t save it for any life plans.

Most of the money is used to buy things they like or for dates with girls.

The main expense among them is watching movies!

Each year’s summer movie season is a fierce battle, with one movie after another being released at the same time. Sometimes five or six movies might be released simultaneously!

Summer vacation, a time when youth and hormones fly together!

At this time, Lynch also sat in the cinema watching "Daddy and Me," a film that has been controversial since its production began because it’s a family ethics drama.

The content involves many... family taboo topics.

The Federation’s social environment is very relaxed and tolerant, but when dealing with such sensitive issues, there’s still a bit of... large scale.

Moreover, it is adapted from a real-life story.

When recruiting actors, many male actors who met the script’s needs refused to play such a film, considering that it might bring them lifelong, indelible bad influence.

In the end, they spent slightly more money than expected and found a skilled but unknown actor to play this role.

During the filming, some religious people, some feminist groups, and some other people often protested near the filming location, affecting the shooting process.

They believed that such a movie should not be shot and certainly should not be shown to more people because it could stimulate some people’s potential dangerous factors.

More importantly, it could have a series of unpredictable negative impacts on society.

In fits and starts, the film was almost finished when the original author and the film’s heroine, the victim’s daughter in the whole event — who played herself in the movie.

According to her, no one could play the role better than her.

And she also hopes that by playing this role, she can awaken more girls to the courage to protect themselves, while also being his first step into the entertainment industry.

This girl, just as the filming was about to be finished, got involved in a new round of turmoil when her father in prison suddenly made a move to overturn the case, claiming that everything was the girl’s plan.

The reason for her father’s change was that the girl had a boyfriend.

Due to the case’s tremendous influence in the Federation, the court started to review it, and more details surfaced.

For instance, this well-known writer, called the "Demon Father," claimed that because of his divorce from his wife, his daughter lived with him since she was little.

But the girl had a strong sense of control from an early age. She wouldn’t allow him to get close to other females, not even showing closeness.

The last time he brought a female writer home, his daughter found out. She showed extraordinary anger, which ultimately led to that being his last date with someone outside the family.

He thought everything would be fine once his daughter grew up, matured, and lived independently.

What he didn’t expect was that the girl started to control his life step by step, beginning with an unexpected incident in the bathroom.

In life, she was good at playing the role of a good girl, and the writer had to play a strict father. He was very painful, caught in a whirlpool he couldn’t extricate himself from until the end...

Actually, in this relationship, it’s hard to distinguish what the feelings between the parents truly were, but without a doubt, it was definitely twisted.

Through self-destruction, he hoped to achieve everything for his daughter, thinking that everything would fade with time until he learned in prison that his daughter had a boyfriend and planned to get married.

In an instant, a fury he had never felt before destroyed his silence. He had to speak out for everything that had happened.

Then this case started a long investigation, and they found some burned fragments at the bottom of the writer’s fireplace.

Although the pages weren’t many and the content wasn’t extensive, it was enough to deduce part of the content.

Then, supported by some other physical evidence, the father-daughter relationship flipped completely.

A girl from a divorced family, out of fear of being distanced from her father once he found a new mother, or even abandoned, began actively replacing the mother’s role.

She was both the father’s lover and his daughter and, more importantly, the controller of everything.

She used this wrong relationship to firmly control the writer, making him constantly cycle through the desire, reason, and moral ethics of the Abyss to achieve control over him!

The case was overturned, and the judges didn’t even know how to change the verdict.

Acquit the writer?

He indeed seemed to have done nothing wrong, just an ordinary man hoping someone could fill the void after his wife’s departure.

Everything stemmed from the girl’s odd sense of control. He was actually the real victim.

But... emotionally, people are more willing to forgive the girl’s actions, instead expressing their unique dissatisfaction with everything the innocent writer experienced!

It wasn’t until April that the writer’s sentence was changed to two years, mainly because he didn’t refuse the event’s development.

There was never a conclusion about the girl’s trial result. Her victim image remained well-maintained, even after the reversal. Many people still felt she should be forgiven for her crimes.

Eventually, with some people’s suggestions, the girl was sent to the Federation’s largest asylum, claiming mental illness.

As for when she will come out... only God knows!

Just having found a double to retake all the missing shots for the film, its release became a new problem, with many believing it shouldn’t be shown.

Because it doesn’t reflect a true event and easily misleads the entire case and the public.

The production company paid a heavy price to get the screening permit, but it was unprecedentedly classified as a movie only for those over twenty-two to watch.

Laridemo’s Film Federation even considered using this as an opportunity to promote a new level of rating measures.

Actually, Lynch wasn’t very interested in watching movies, but he stayed here because of Penny.

She had just finished shooting a new movie and didn’t want to continue working for a while, so she came to Bupen.

With nothing to do, she dragged Lynch to watch this movie together.

Strictly speaking, she wasn’t twenty-two yet, but in such a society in the Federation, facts don’t matter, money does.

Slipping an extra twenty-dollar bill into the ticket booth, the person inside glanced at the two young people outside and directly judged that they were over twenty-two, handing them two tickets.

This situation has actually been quite common since the movie’s release.

Because the twenty-two age viewing condition was a first in history, without a strictly enforced standard system, and the film industry guild had not issued a formal notice.

So whether to sell tickets or not entirely depended on the ticketing staff’s observation.

The seating rate in the cinema was very high, people had a sort of inexplicable anticipation for this movie — taboo things are attractive, plus the ’plot’ outside the cinema was so exciting, it was obviously normal to attract people.

As the plot unfolded, the tension and power of the whole story gradually built layer by layer, the male actor’s casting was excellent, though without fame, he portrayed a twisted father nearly flawlessly!

From peeking into the bathroom through the door to his perverted behavior when cleaning dirty clothes, he seemed like a real pervert!

The cinema was constantly filled with murmurs of curses directed at the perverted father and sympathy for the girl’s tragic experience.

"She’s really too weak!" Penny whispered to Lynch, sitting in the back row. She clearly didn’t think much of the movie’s story.

"If I were her, I’d grab anything and smash the pervert’s balls, but she just endures."

The girl’s perspective was sharp, "Of course, this also relates to the fact that none of this is true. Who would have thought that the real pervert wasn’t the father, or rather, the first pervert wasn’t the father, but the girl?"

Sometimes the performance isn’t reasonable because those aren’t the truths.

As the plot developed, the non-movie-related noise in the cinema grew louder, and many people even left midway, seeming unable to handle the movie’s content and the impact it brought.

After watching the movie, on the way back, Penny kept pondering over the events in the movie.

"It wasn’t actually that brilliant, the plot and logic are flawed, but it just makes people unable to stop thinking."

"Maybe I should also start shooting some art films; they say, to win awards, this is the way!"

Penny had already received top star salaries and some small awards, proving herself in mainstream commercial films.

But for academic filmmakers, she still wasn’t qualified enough, and they wouldn’t give her enough respect.

The Academy’s film magazine "Film" had a critic comment on Penny as a "soulless but beautiful shell," which was also these people’s attitude towards her.

Brokers, film companies, all suggested she should shoot some art films, those that can win awards.

But she never agreed.

As she put it, she doesn’t need to please anyone!