Parker City, covered in silver, ushered in the first ray of sunshine in the morning. The bitter air slowly faded in the golden light, and the chirping sounds revealed another lively day at the Sundance Film Festival.

Lance still got up at 8 o'clock in the morning and prepared to attend the premiere of "Whale Knight". After bathing, he put on a light blue vertical striped shirt and came to the restaurant on the third floor of the hotel to enjoy his own breakfast. After sitting down, the waiter came over, "Good morning, Mr. Strello, do you need coffee or milk?"

"Yes, please give me a black coffee, thank you," Lance said with a smile, "and give me two croissants and a fried egg, five ripe."

"Today's blueberry cheesecake is very fresh. Do you need it?" The waiter gave the recommendation politely. Lance nodded with a smile, "Then give me a corner."

When the waiter came back again, he brought a pot of black coffee and a stack of brand new newspapers with the aroma of ink. Lance selected three newspapers from them - the Salt Lake City Tribune, the Denver Post and the Los Angeles Times. He could even feel the residual temperature of the newspaper's surface with an iron, and carefully poured milk and sugar cube into the black coffee, and then he began to flip through the newspaper.

The breakfast hall soon became lively, and people participating in the Sundance Film Festival in Salt Lake City began to get up one after another to accumulate energy for today's carnival.

Percy quickly walked into the restaurant and saw the almost full hall. But just after scanning it, he easily discovered the location of Lance and walked over. Then he heard the brisk voice of Jonathan Karsh, "I have heard at least five people recommend it to me, so, believe me, I will definitely go see it this afternoon." The director of "My Flesh" seemed very happy. Jonathan also noticed Percy's approach, so he politely greeted Lance, said "I'll talk to you after I'll finish watching", and then left straight away.

Percy couldn't help feeling weak when he saw the newspaper spread out on Lance's desktop and the croissant bread crumbs on the plate next to him, "Do you know the magazine is coming out today? I'm so nervous that I feel nauseous. You're still having breakfast here!" Percy pulled a chair next to the table and sat down, saying, "God, everyone has turned their attention to the 'Whale Knight' today. Our movie seems to have become tomorrow's yellow flowers. This is really bad..."

Lance did not interrupt Percy, cut a cheesecake with a fork and put it in his mouth, feeling the delicate and soft touch, and a satisfied happiness appeared on the corner of his mouth. Finally, he found that Percy had finally stopped, so he raised his eyes and looked over, "This is the film festival, we are not the only film to participate."

At the film festival, new movies will be released every day, and every crew comes to attend with ambitiousness. The media battle is naturally surging, so the topics are updated every day, which is inevitable. However, the media is not the only way to understand the situation. Lance and Jonathan just now learned a lot of information - it can be felt that among independent directors, many people have developed a strong interest in "City of God".

At such a moment, nervousness can't help anything, which will only make things more confused. Lance is really clear about this. However, Lance is also nervous, which is normal, but he does not show it. A cup of coffee and a piece of cheesecake really helps a lot.

He put down the fork with satisfaction and wiped the corner of his mouth with a square scarf. The slow and calm movement made Percy's face full of depression. He slammed his chest in one breath and could not vent it. Lance raised his head and saw Percy's weak expression, and laughed in silence, "So, where is the magazine?"

Percy originally wanted to calm down Lans' appetite, but under Lance's gaze, he ended up losing in less than two seconds. He took out the official Sundance Film Festival magazine from his briefcase and handed it to Lance.

After taking over the magazine, Lance did not start reading immediately, but read the catalog carefully. For ordinary people, magazines are one of the ways to understand the film festival; but for professionals, they can see more information through the magazines, such as emerging directors worth paying attention to, works with commercial value, and important figures who come to participate in the film festival.

Lance noticed a name, Brad Grey. This was an interview titled "Paramount Pictures' first attendance at Sundance."

If Lance remembers correctly, the current helmsman of Paramount Pictures is Shirley Lansing (Shooting Rry-lan), a wise and decisive strong woman led Paramount to a decade-long revival in the 1990s. However, after entering the 21st century, Paramount fell into a dilemma again. In 2005, Shirley was dismissed and replaced by Brad, who had no experience in the helm of the film company. The young and energetic Brad led Paramount to regain glory.

Brad's biggest drastic reform of Paramount was to establish an international distribution channel for independent films and emphasized the importance of novel adaptation rights.

Perhaps, the issuance rights of "City of God" can make a breakthrough in Brad.

Seeing Lance fall into his mind and not reading the magazine for a long time, Percy finally couldn't help but blurted out, "Our movie received a positive review of 3:50! It is currently only behind 3:60 points behind 'Share America'!" The joy and excitement between his eyebrows were unblocked, and he could clearly feel the fanaticism in his heart.

The rating system of the Sundance Film Festival is a full four-point system. Generally, if you can exceed three points, it can be regarded as a work that has been unanimously recognized by film critics.

Lance raised his head and saw Percy's extremely excited eyebrows and eyes. The smile on the corner of his mouth suddenly burst out, "We succeeded." The words to the extreme were extremely simple, but they hid too many miscellaneous emotions, so that Lance's brain fell into a blank for a second.

In this second, he did not need to think about the showdown with Diorama, the betrayal of Ryan and George, the current weakness and hardship of Chaos Pictures, the future distribution issues of "City of God", and the subsequent obstacles and development.

He was simply happy, simply happy because of his directorial debut and screenwriter debut - recognized from the audience and from film critics, simply happy because of his works he spent countless hard work and received praise, and simply happy because he won applause as an art creator.

This happiness is so simple, so pure, so beautiful.

When I opened the magazine, I saw the comments of "City of God" without any effort. This is obviously the highlight of today's magazine, occupying two entire pages. On the left is the black title of "City of God", and on the right side of the title, the huge red font "3.5/4" immediately attracted attention, which means that in the rating system of full four points, more than a dozen media scored, "City of God" got an average score of 3.5 points - as Percy said.

If you don’t make a sound, you’ll make a splash. Lance almost appeared on the stage of Sundance!

On the left is the official review of the Sundance Film Festival. The title of "Modern Epic Like Poems and Songs, Aesthetic Prose of Sadness and Despair, A Majestic and Magnificent Retro Oil Painting" is huge and conspicuous, plus the subtitle "A Samba Rhapsody from Lancelot-Stralo", and the official score of Sundance can be seen in the lower right corner, "4/4".

They actually gave incredible full marks!

"This is an almost impossible story to adapt successfully, but the fledgling Lancelot-Stralo is perfectly presented to us. With realistic and sharp shooting techniques, the quick switching of the camera is like a repeatedly sharpened dagger shining with dazzling cold light. It is neat, straightforward, and decisive to express every detail and the whole without any drag. The real scene makes people immersed in the scene, but it is pointed at it, leaving endless space for thinking, bringing this city of God, which is cruel, cruel, terrible, ridiculous, and ridiculous to us.

It is hard to imagine that this is just the first work of Lancelot, a director and screenwriter. It combines the rude documentary techniques with the romance of dramatic ridicule, perfectly blending entertainment effects with artistic reflection, mature and experienced handling methods, just right discussion and exploration, and distinctive camera images... Lancelot shows us all about a genius.

This is a very special movie, and any of the characters can be taken out alone to make a good movie, but Lancelot broke out from the Hollywood routine of seeing the big ones from the small and giving up the mode of touching the audience with individual humanity. He showed the audience a beating Latin American slum Ukiyo-e, where everyone lives in impermanence and disorder, and everyone's story is an organic composition of the entire story, cleverly and interestingly connected.

However, the finished products we see do not disappear because of the overall display. Benny, who is born romantic, Shuai Ned, who pursues ordinary, a little overlord with strong will, and A Pao, who is born timid but firm will... Each character appears vividly and vividly before his eyes, and stages their stories.

‘City of God’, this is a city favored by God, a city abandoned by God, or a city forgotten by God. This is the thought left to us by Lancelot.”

It can be imagined that the official Sundance Film Festival's official magazine has used up almost all the praises and gave praise to "City of God". They believe that this film is the best work since the opening of Sundance this year, and is even better than "Speeding America", so they gave the only official full score evaluation at present and clearly expressed their position.
Chapter completed!