She Looks Better Than the Movie

Twenty-eight-year-old Lin Yiyi is the kind of person who would be overwhelmed in a crowd - she graduated from a computer science department and worked as a backend developer for a large company at P6. She hasn't had a salary increase in three years and even broke up with her ex-boyfriend on the day she received the layoff notice. Her only advantage is that she is pretty, but she doesn't know it. On the day she was laid off, she walked out of the Xingchen Building holding a cardboard box and sat in front of the convenience store for four hours. A notification popped up on her phone—the film review she wrote on the Light and Shadow Community was copied by a retired director. The message only had eight words: "Is this author a movie maker?" Three months later, she picked up the camera with her coding hand. A year later, her short film had tens of millions of views. Three years later, the HR of her former company forwarded her award-winning news on her WeChat Moments with the text, "The ones we produce from our jumping system are awesome." In the fifth year, she stood on the stage of the Kona Film Festival, the spotlight hit her face, and the reporter in the audience whispered - "This director is better than her movies." From an optimized coder to the best director at an international film festival, Lin Yiyi used her best methods - breaking down the rhythm of movies with the logic of writing code, using algorithms to analyze audience emotions, and using data to challenge investors' aesthetic biases - to complete a textbook-level dimensionality reduction attack. But what really got her here was not data models and cheats. It's the self who stays up late cutting films in a rental house, it's the pot of green radish that has been growing at the workstation for three years and finally blooms, it's what Mr. Fang said—— "The most dangerous time for a director is not when he fails. It is when he succeeds."