The world of adolescence is so big, and it is easy to die or live. When you grow up and become a social animal, you realize that you need to be numb to live, you need to be strong, and you need to let yourself go. What sensitivity, pain, isolation are fleeting. In the movie, I don't trust others, and it feels real to have a cross drawn on my face. Drawing a cross means it is not important, it means not caring, it means not afraid of what they say and how they treat themselves unfriendly. But this is actually an act of self-escape. The real strength may be to remove the fork and face it calmly, that is growth.
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