Soothing narrative, soft graphics, and warm soundtrack, but at the heart of this story is sadness, despair, and irony. Homa heard Fuzzy ask about Honolulu, and left the orphanage with a yearning for the outside world, but in the end he just went to an apple orchard to do simple work, and only occasionally heard people mention India, the Himalayas, and Florey up. He has witnessed and experienced the ugliness, infidelity, incest, class exploitation, and war in the world. The director did not take a strong stand to portray these ugliness, and even explained it with emotion to a certain extent, just like "The Years of Burning Love". The world is inherently sinful and cannot be attributed to any individual. People who hold the belief in salvation can only choose to escape, just like lauch, like Homa who finally returned to the orphanage. Lauch tried his best to put Homa in the simple little world of the orphanage, but in the end he was 'lost him in the world'. Fortunately, Homa experienced lost&found and chose to escape from the world just like him.
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