Chen Si'an is not only a writer, but also a theater choreographer and director, which makes it easy to explain why his work is so immersive. Watching his work is like having a projection in front of you, with the characters and scenery bouncing around on the screen, tugging at your heart from frame to frame, making you go deeper and deeper into it.
? Polyjuice is a short story with a strong flavor of life. The first sentence of the novel attracts people to explore the so-called myths in Anke's mouth. The perpetually dog-walking aunt who hangs around in front of the neighborhood supermarket is a relatively special presence, and the string of English commands that come out of her mouth daily makes Anke suspect for a moment that the aunt's English dictionary only contains chapters that start with S. This is a hip old lady whose hipness contrasts sharply with those around her, and whose long hours of dog-walking show us the sadness of the empty-nesters' lives. Located in the center of the district, Building 7 has an aunt who opens the window every night at 10:00 p.m. and curses, precise time, precise curses and seemingly well-trained and flawless movements make this aunt, whose face cannot be seen, quite mysterious, and the person she curses can be dragged out to be clicked in terms of morality, which also makes people want to speculate on the confusing relationship between the aunt and the professor, the parent of the bullied student? A parent of a bullied student? A colleague who is being squeezed for research funds? A member of a damaged family? Someone who was hurt and ostracized by the abuse of power? These we have no way to prove, just An Ke later bold assumptions let us have a kind of enlightened feeling, perhaps only that is still fond of Professor Zhang his wife can do such a thing.
The new wave of dog walking aunts, the mysterious aunts of Building 7, always keep the tail of the line of the spontaneous swing of the square dance grandfather, legs and feet are not good but full of love to feed the cat grandma, the appearance of the king of the push Winnie the Pooh young man, the naked woman who has nothing to worry about, and will make the pancakes to make the art of the pancake style pancake brother ------ This is a peculiar neighborhood carries a variety of peculiar people and things, as long as you Quiet mind, stop busy feet will find around these different landscapes, raise your head to look around, only to find that life was so colorful, which is the same as the previous life with the time to mix together and go with the flow can not feel a pleasure.
Chen Si'an's life under the screen is in fact the daily life of those around us who are not famous, when they walk into the big screen, you will realize that these are only a corner of life, a corner that has never been valued by people.