The trial of "Instinct" was held in a theater in Century City, Beverly Hills. Simon and Janet set out from Malibu and read Sophia Fessi's investigation report along the way.

There are too many cases of wealthy and celebrities who have encountered bad luck in their encounters, and many of them have been destroyed. The affairs Sophia Fessi is responsible for are closely related to Simon's private life, and he seems very cautious in this matter.

Simon was very satisfied with the resume of Sofia Fessi in the report.

An ordinary coastal town girl who walked out of Corsica, France, graduated from the 10th French public university and majored in administration. The woman's grades in the university are amazing. After graduating at the age of 22, she unexpectedly entered the ETH Zurich, Switzerland to study business administration again, but she dropped out of school after only one year and married her ex-husband Paul Brinny.

Paul Breni is a businessman in the red wine business. The Breni family owns their own wineries in popular wine producing areas such as Bordeaux, Provence and the Loire Valley in France. However, the marriage lasted only three years and ended in failure. Sofia Fisi was given custody of a pair of children. In recent years, he has been responsible for luxury home agency at a top real estate agency in Nice, close to Cannes, with outstanding performance.

Simon looked through the information in his hand page by page, and Janet leaned over to him and asked, "How is it, isn't it very interesting?"

In addition to the main resumes, there are also some accounts of Sofia Fessi's marriage with her ex-husband who was eleven years older than her and the reasons for the divorce. During the divorce process, the woman successfully seized the custody of a pair of children with Paul Briani's bad deeds of domestic violence, but the price was that she only received a one-time alimony of 5 million francs. The money was left after paying the expensive litigation costs for up to a year.

Obviously, the businessman named Paul Brinny is also a ruthless man. The information shows that Sophia Fessi's children are now only 7 and 5 years old. The Brinny family has assets of more than 300 million francs, but Paul Brinny has not paid a penny of support for his children in recent years.

When Simon heard Janet's question, he reached out to pinch the woman's chin and smiled, "You are so good from a good family. I don't know how difficult it is for a helpless little woman to walk along the way, but I find it interesting."

"No," Janet shook Simon's hand dissatisfiedly, snatched the investigation report and flipped it over a few pages, and handed it over again: "Look, it's actually the businessman who recently wanted to regain the custody of the two little guys. He encountered an accident while traveling on a yacht two years ago, and it must have lost his fertility. Look at Sofia Fessi, it's not accidental that she promised to work for you. She wants a strong support that can protect herself and not lose custody."

Simon browsed the pages of information in front of him, just smiled and said, "It is okay for the boss to protect his employees. Since you are so interested in this matter, you can come forward when you need it."

Janet looked very interested, and nodded with a small expression full of evil spirits. Seeing that the woman was about to become a sperm, Simon quickly reached out to suppress her. When she was attacked under her ribs, Janet immediately smiled and softened.

The trial starts at seven o'clock, and Simon and Janet arrive outside a theater in Century City AMC theater ten minutes in advance.

In order to create momentum for publicity as much as possible, Fox made the preview very popular and specially arranged a red carpet. A large number of media reporters and enthusiastic fans holding various posters were gathered outside the theater.

Simon and Janet got out of the car, and the crowd, which was originally orderly, suddenly became turbulent. If it weren't for the security guards' block, the crowd would almost rush to the two of them. Seeing this situation, Simon did not accept an interview, but cooperated with the photos and hurried into the theater with Janet.

The two were led by staff to a lounge first. Fox chairman Barry Diller and Fox Film president Ronald Goldberg had arrived early. In addition to several creators of "Instinct" such as Brian de Palma and Michael Douglas, there were also several big-name film critics in the lounge.

The preview is about to begin, and everyone did not exchange too much greetings, so they soon entered the screening room and sat down.

Simon took Janet and Barry Diller and others to sit in a slightly forward position and scanned the surroundings. The medium-sized screening hall of more than 200 people was almost full, all of which were media reporters and film critics from all over North America. This also shows that Fox Pictures spared no effort to make this trial, because most of them were responsible for the expenses of food, boarding, travel and other expenses.

The screening of the movie began soon under the dim lights.

After a brief and psychedelic opening, a passionate scene of a naughty appears in front of everyone, which caught many critics off guard.

Although Simon's previous "Pulp Novel" seemed very bloody and violent, there was no shot in it from beginning to end.

However, this passionate scene was just the beginning. When the woman suddenly pulled out the ice cone and stabbed the man under her mercilessly, blood splattered everywhere, some media reporters and film critics in the screening room were almost stunned.

Is this Simon Westeros script?

Is this a script written by Simon Westero, who created a series of "Rolla Run", "Butterfly Effect", "The God of Death", and even the stunning "Pulp Novel" that has recently been awesome?

Not far from the main creator of the screening room, Terence Lafferty, a famous film critic from "The New Yorker", was about to end the opening plot, glanced at the young man not far away, and asked Richard Schicker, the chief film critic of Time magazine, who was also frowning next to him, saying: "Is it possible that someone else's script has Westeros' name?"

Richard Schicker also looked in a certain direction and shook his head, "I think Westeros wouldn't have had his name on this video if it weren't for the contract with Fox Pictures."

Terence Lafferty thought for a while and couldn't help but nod.

However, he soon felt that perhaps other well-known directors or screenwriters should not associate themselves with controversial films as much as possible, but a young man like Westeros who doesn't play according to common sense may not care about these. The controversy caused by "Pulp Novel" during this period was also very controversial. A youth protection organization in New York State even protested to the state government for the blunt description of drug injections in "Pulp Novel", demanding that the film be banned.

Now, Westeros has just squandered a handful of violence and has begun to show off his eroticism in a naked manner.

I really don't know what else he will do next.

Terence Rafferty is actually a fan of the "Batman" comics. Looking at some hint plots that were everywhere in less than half an hour on the big screen, he was even worried that Simon Westeros would make "Batman" an R-level film that is not suitable for children.

God really favored that young man.

Perhaps, this time he should have suffered some setbacks.

Having made this idea in his heart, Terence Lafferty once again turned his attention to the big screen. Even if he wanted to criticize the film, he would definitely finish watching it carefully.

After putting in the energy, Terence Rafferty quickly noticed the performance of the heroine Linda Feorentino. He actually didn't know the name of the actress, but remembered that she played a strange artist image in Martin Scorsese's "After get off work".

Although very disgusted with the theme of this film, Terence Rafferty has to admit that, like Sandra Brock in "Running Rolla", Meg Ryan in "When Harry Meets Sally" and Nicole Kidman in "Pulp Novel", Simon Westeros once again picked the right heroine.

However, for the same reason, this actress may find it difficult for her to get rid of her positioning in "Instinct".

In addition, the performance of the new actor Michael Douglas is also remarkable, and director Brian de Palma even fully demonstrates his preference for Hitchcock in the film.

Moreover, in addition to the ubiquitous sexual theme, the core of this film is the same as the title of "Instinct". In the final analysis, it shows that the deeply rooted desires in human instinct drive a person's behavior. The heroine of the femtos is also using human instinct to manipulate the men around her. However, her behavior may also come from the dark instinct in human nature.

After the screening ended, Terence Lafferty unconsciously discovered that if the part about sex in this film was removed, it would be a film worthy of taste. But instead, if those elements were really removed, this film, which was crowned with "Instinct", would still lose its color.

This is a proposition that cannot be achieved both ways.

The subtitles at the end of the film began to rise, Terence Rafferty was still recalling the plot just now, and Richard Schicker next to him suddenly came over and whispered: "Roger left the stage early."

Terence Lafferty was stunned for a moment before remembering.

There may not be only one person in this screening room named Roger, but the person who could be named by Richard Schicker without mentioning his surname was the famous Chicago film critic Roger Albert.

Because of preconceived ideas, Terence Lafferty had some prejudice against the film I just watched, but was no longer so disgusted at the core. Out of the idea that some literati were disgusted, Terence Lafferty smiled jokingly and said, "It's normal. Roger Albert has never liked this suspense and thriller type of film."

Terence Lafferty said it very tactfully, but Richard Schicker smiled knowingly.

As one of the few top critics in North America who can be called a homecoming, Roger Albert's review style has always been known for its gentleness, but only for certain types of films are the thriller and suspense type.

There is actually an allusion in this. Many years ago, the energetic young man planned to become a screenwriter and liked thriller and suspense films, but the script he created was rejected again and again. As a forced person, he had to change careers and become a film critic. Because of his "tragic experience" when he was a screenwriter, this film critic who became a monk and finally became a famous artist seemed particularly harsh about thriller and suspense films.

After talking and laughing, Richard Schicker saw that the subtitles on the big screen were about to end, and he couldn't help but ask Terence Lafferty beside him: "Will you go to Fox's reception next?"

Terence Lafferty was a little hesitant. He was still very interested in Simon Westeros and originally planned to take this opportunity to chat with the other party. However, in this situation, Fox's reception party is obviously of a public relations nature. If he attends it, he is lobbying at the party. Terence Lafferty felt that it would be difficult for him to publish too harshly on Instinct.

Although Terence Rafferty's view of "Instinct" was not too bad after watching the entire film, he was reluctant to be influenced by others.

I turned around and looked around. Except for Roger Albert, there were obviously some other people in the screening room that had already left the show early. It was obvious that although I received various entertainments from Fox Pictures, a large number of people still expressed their attitude in this way. Perhaps those people would not accept Fox's return tickets again in the future.

Retracting his gaze, Terence Lafferty nodded and said, "Go, I'm still very curious about that young man, Charlie, where are you?"

Richard Schicker nodded, "I plan to go there too."

Before the movie was accepted, Ronald Goldberg kept hearing the assistant report that someone had left early. Fox planned to adopt the promotional strategy of controversial marketing, which was right, but to the end, Ronald Goldberg was a little worried that if the reputation of "Instinct" completely collapsed, there would be no "controversy" in the future.

The reception was held at the nearby InterContinental Hotel in Century City.

Among the more than 200 film critics attending the preview, more than three did not appear again after the screening, which cast a shadow in Ronald Goldberg's heart. At the beginning of last year's "Butterfly Effect", Fox's performance suddenly improved, and this summer season saw unexpected success such as "Flying Over the Future". The company originally had high expectations for "Instinct", and Ronald Goldberg also hoped that he would accumulate a qualification with "Instinct" before officially resigning this fall, and he would get a bonus to start a new company after he left.

But now, the situation suddenly becomes uncertain.

After enthusiastically whispering among the crowd, Ronald Goldberg also roughly saw the critics' overall strong polarization of this film, but at the same time, due to their high expectations for Simon Westeros, this polarized reputation is actually more inclined to a critical film.

Obviously, Instinct will definitely be controversial next, but the reputation may become very bad.

Ronald Goldberg simply couldn't tell if the audience would still pay for a controversial but bad reputation film, even if it was a Simon Westeros film, or, especially because it was a Simon Westeros film.
Chapter completed!