The entire film is dark in tone, with only two places showing warmth and purity. One is that he saw his father's body, and after having a life-and-death dialogue with his father, we saw that the movie scene changed from the gloomy city to a spacious thoroughfare with trees on both sides and golden leaves, giving people A feeling of warmth and harvest; another is a conversation with his father in a snowy forest after his death. In this conversation, they were actually talking about something very "boring" - owls.
The whole film can be understood as the perspective of a man who lacks fatherly love on the world. Because of the absence of fatherly love, he greatly developed the power of the feminine—the power of psychic powers. Because he never met his father, and because his father died before he was born, he desperately longed to talk to and connect with his father in his heart. So, this means the connection between Yin and Yang. So, his desire became his ability, he had the ability to talk to the dead. In fact, all this is to find his father's body and talk to his father one day.
It is precisely because the father's love is lacking that the fatherly power in him is also lacking. So he developed his mother's compassion to the extreme. For example, he cared about Chinese laborers and installed heating for them; for example, he cared about black mothers and children and helped them pay their rent for a year. However, he did not have the sanity and boundaries of his father, and sometimes his help became a harm. For example, it was his wife's kindness that caused so many Chinese workers to die from carbon dioxide poisoning.
Throughout the film, the government's position is not covered. Government, which represents authority and order, but in Uxbal or the director's perspective, he is missing. So, maybe this film is a metaphor for the director's growth and a metaphor for his inner strength. At the end of the film, the director dedicated the film to his father "Old Oak".
Here, I don't want to discuss the worldly good and evil, which is a socialized standard and a standard to see from this life and this life. We see that fate leads a person so powerfully, and love leads a person so powerfully. Because of his love for his father, his destiny was so led to practice that love. Don't hesitate to trade life to complete the dialogue of death. And for those Chinese laborers, their death may also be a deep-seated demand for love. Because abroad, they have become money-making machines, and deep down, they also long to return to the motherland, reunite with their families, and connect with their families. In this sense, no one in the film is evil. It's just the invisible hand of fate that makes them die now or then, completing the dialogue and connection of love.
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