After the second brush, I have a new understanding of the film. From beginning to end, the whole film revolves around the word "emotion" and tells the story of alternate reality and myth. Because of the loss of his mother, his father was depressed and immersed in grief and ignored everything. The elder brother forced himself to bully and hate his younger sister to gain a sense of existence (many details in the first half have already revealed his repentance and distress), and the mythical giant also suffered from excessive grief. Being petrified by casting spells, reality and myth overlap, and the authoritarian grandmother, like Macha, forces her son to stop grief, forget the pain, and even extend to the child. It is good to have no sadness, but to lose emotion is like walking with a dead body and can no longer feel all the good things in life. The most obvious character transformation is the elder brother. On the road of adventure, he went from disgusting awkwardness to duplicity and secret protection, to honest praise and trying his best to break through himself to help his sister and begging her mother to keep her. The emotion of the elder brother was released and sublimated. Expressing love is no longer shame, it is the courage to face your heart and learn to cherish the most precious things. In the end, the emotions of Macha, the giant, the father, and the grandmother have all been released. They dare to face the past and move forward calmly into the future. The younger sister is the key to guiding them.
We should not give up all perception in order to escape pain, be as numb and indifferent as a stone statue or even pretend to not care. You must know that it is with a variety of emotions that we shape our unique soul and enrich our complete life.
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