In tragedy movies, there was a technique frequently employed in setting up the background of movie characters to increase the sense of tragedy—for example, when a few characters in the movie experienced all kinds of hardships and overcame layers and layers of obstacles before finally escaping death and climbing out from places like ‘underground areas’, ‘traps’, ‘site of catastrophe’ etc...
What welcomed them right after was—an abrupt rain of bullets or a mysterious ax slashing toward them out of nowhere, a sharp sword, a meteorite falling from the sky, exterminating everything, and other various kinds of methods, giving the pitiful movie characters a one-way ticket straight to heaven…
Thereafter, the audience would feel betrayed, and couldn’t help but feel that these characters were very miserable…
At this moment, Old Lu really resembled one of those tragic characters.