Until a minute before the end of the film, I was still expecting aliens, and I didn't know it wasn't science fiction until I saw the subtitles. The moral of the film can be summed up in a sentence from "The Count of Monte Cristo": "All the wisdom of mankind is contained in these five words: wait and hope!".
But what puzzles me is why the male lead, who is a missing person (suicide and murderer whose body the local police can't find), is so proficient in astronomy that it surprises even the best astronomers.
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