Chapter 255: Source Code

*Source Code* is currently in hot release, and the audience in the theater is staring nervously at the screen, afraid to miss even the slightest important clue.

Xu Can's new film seems a bit mind-bending.

The protagonist Colter is trapped in an 8-minute memory and needs to find the bomber to stop the next explosion.

He also learns a shocking fact — he has already died on the battlefield! What he's connected to is the memory of a dead passenger, "Sean"!

An ordinary person facing this situation would definitely be unable to accept reality,

but the male lead, being a soldier, can only do his best to play his part and save more innocent people.

Through loop after loop, Colter keeps trial-and-erring, keeps repeating the previous process, and gradually becomes familiar with every person and every event in the carriage.

The price of each loop is merely experiencing the agony of death.

Finally, Colter uses his own "cheat," and through the phone on the bomb, follows the trail to find the person who planted it.

And in that person's car, he found even more bombs!

But how could the culprit be caught so easily!

The other party took advantage of the male lead's inattention, shot Colter and his female companion Christina dead.

Colter was forced into another loop.

"Oh, Noooo……"

Seeing the male lead fail at the last moment, the audience in the theater couldn't help but let out a sigh.

And Christina, who had followed along, also met with misfortune,

Taylor Swift's performance is truly penetrating — she portrays the accident of being shot and her lingering attachment to the male lead Colter with penetrating depth.

Mei Mei's acting doesn't seem like that of a completely inexperienced newcomer, but rather like a professional actress with years of experience.

Just for this shot of falling down dead, Mei Mei actually performed with layers!

"Six-six-zero," "Wow! Completely unexpected — this is actually Taylor Swift!"

Film critic William remarked with feeling.

Luo Jie Ebert beside him smiled.

"If it were anyone else it might seem strange, but the director is Xu Can. As Best Actor and Best Director, he truly has the ability to draw out performances from others."

As a recognized well-known film critic in North America, Luo Jie Ebert has already noticed a problem.

As long as Xu Can is on set, everyone else's performance reaches their own peak.

Many stars with only average acting can deliver first-rate performances,

and actors who were already excellent to begin with can even produce Best Actor / Best Actress-level work.

The reason Emma Stone of *La La Land* won Best Actress without any controversy is not because her competitors were too weak.

Suppose the original version of Stone were placed here — she might not necessarily beat Meryl, Fat-Win, or Anne Hathaway, that terrifying Best Actress nominee lineup.

In the previous life, the 2009 Oscar Best Actress was Fat-Win; Kate Winslet's performance in *The Reader* was indeed slightly superior.

But with the dual boost of Xu Can's god-tier acting and god-tier directing, Emma Stone's performance nearly broke the limits of her own theory,

to describe it in xuanhuan terms — it's the Great Perfection state of her realm, the peak of Master, half-step into Legend.

So Taylor Swift, with absolutely no acting experience, can also instantly become a top-tier actress — limited to this film.

……

Fortunately, before dying, the male lead Colter memorized the bomber's license plate and learned the culprit's name through an ID card.

These clues can all be used in the next loop to skip the previous investigation and directly capture the bomber!

Sure enough, by sharing this information, the police in the real world quickly took control of the bomber and avoided an explosion that would have endangered thousands upon thousands of people.

Originally the mission should have ended here, but the male lead requested the person in charge of "Beleaguered Fortress," hoping to reboot the loop — he wanted to save the people on the train.

"It's useless," liaison Goodwin said helplessly.

"This Source Code program isn't meant to save the past, but to prevent the future — you've already done it."

"That car shouldn't have exploded. I missed one detonator — I can stop this explosion."

"This is just a program. The girl in the car, and everyone else on the train, are already dead."

In other words, what has already happened in the past cannot be changed no matter how many thousands of loops one goes through.

"You're wrong," the protagonist Colter said firmly. "No, she has a chance to live."

"I'm asking you — send me back, then terminate my life."

Seeing this scene, liaison Goodwin's feelings were complicated.

Colter could originally only survive by his brain, lingering on; strictly speaking, he himself had already fallen in battle.

Even if they let him be trapped in a cramped space, what's the point?

As an Oscar Best Actress, Emma Stone used these few seconds of silent shot to perform the complex state of being trapped in struggle with transcendent skill.

She glanced not far away — Colter's body was lying in that iron box.

According to the department's rules and regulations, she needed to let the male lead's consciousness be trapped forever in memory, to help them with counter-terrorism.

But out of humanitarian consideration, Goodwin ultimately softened and sent Colter back onto the train.

Returning once more to the train, the male lead Colter looked at the Christina before him, both unfamiliar and familiar.

Even though in reality she is already dead, in this virtual world she is still a living, breathing life!

"Maybe we could grab a coffee together."

"Sure, that should be interesting."

Taylor Swift's Christina beamed like a flower, brushed aside a strand of hair by her ear, and gazed at the male lead with tender affection.

Anyone with eyes could tell — this absolutely wasn't acting.

Taylor is clearly interested in Xu Can right in front of her; with her acting ability, if she had no feelings for Xu Can, she simply couldn't perform such deep affection.

Although the rumors about the two have already been confirmed — back then she even kissed Xu Can publicly at the Grammys.

Now there's one more piece of ironclad proof!

"She really does love you," Aima whispered resentfully in Xu Can's ear.

"The one who's with you right now is me." Xu Can pinched her little cheek, telling her not to overthink it.

"Mm." Stone Sister rested her head lightly on Xu Can's shoulder.

She felt that, without considering anyone else, she was simply savoring the happiness of this very moment.

In the film, the male lead Colt successfully dismantled the bomb and cuffed the bomber,

thereby rescuing the train.

The bomber was completely dumbfounded,

I haven't even started exposing any clues yet—how the hell did you know?

But even though he saved the train, this memory only lasted eight minutes.

Once the time was up, he still had to return to that cramped, dark space, with no peace, day after day.

Seeing there was still one last minute, Colt didn't care anymore—he grabbed Christina in the virtual world and kissed her deeply.

"Ow! Ow ow ow!"