The shot held on the mirror in front of the female lead, as if she were carefully studying her own face.
The ending theme began to play, while the shot from the female lead's perspective remained fixed on the mirror.
The woman in the mirror slowly reached out and touched the face reflected there, then leaned closer.
The woman in the mirror filled the screen, and the audience could see her more and more clearly. As the female lead's hair fell away to either side, the woman in the mirror revealed her left eye.
Just as the eye began to open wider, the camera suddenly pulled back!
At that moment, the perspective seemed to shift away from the female lead's point of view. The camera kept pulling back, capturing both the female lead's back and the woman in the mirror.
As the perspective continued to retreat, the female lead turned away from the mirror and looked toward the camera.
Her face was as pale as paper, completely unlike the one in the mirror. And then, at that very moment, the most horrifying scene appeared.
The female lead turned around, but the woman in the mirror stayed in her original position. She looked toward the camera along with the female lead, wearing an indescribably eerie expression.
The music stopped abruptly, and the screen went black. Perhaps because the Dead Man's Screening Room had been unused for so long, the lights inside didn't come on after the movie ended. Everything around them remained pitch-black.
The darkness made Chen Ge uneasy. He sat still in his chair, his eyes fixed on the screen.
He thought he had more or less figured out the movie. It used a nonlinear narrative, with the ending echoing the beginning and the middle told through flashbacks.
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