The connotation or theme of the film is obviously extremely complex, ambiguous and obscure. From the explicit level, it is roughly love, peace and anti-war, fraternity, humanity and humanitarianism. On a deeper level, the film expresses themes of time, memory and forgetting. As a representative work of the "New Wave" and "Left Bank", which is an organic composition of Western modernism in the twentieth century, "Hiroshima, My Love" expresses a profound modernist theme and expresses the ontology of human existence. On crisis, as well as questioning and reflection on the value and meaning of self-existence, profound anxiety about time, etc. It probes into people's deep psychological world and subconscious spiritual realm. This profoundly reveals that there is no pure present, time is a continuous river, the past is like a dream, time is like water, the past is like a nightmare entangled in the present, and it weighs heavily on the present life. Of course, such a film theme is vague and ambiguous and layered. In addition, the film's weakening of the plot, unclear characters, incomplete personality conflicts, etc., further strengthens the hazy, dark and warm theme and style of the entire film. The director seems to have completely returned the right to think to the audience. Different audiences will have different thoughts, but they belong to their own thinking.
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Overall, this is a poetic film with a typical modernist theme and style, which is very lyrical, highly infectious, heavy and depressing and erratic and confused.
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