The film mainly explores the delicate relationship between marriage bottleneck and sexual desire, and the interpretation of "anti-matter" and "negative-dimensional world" in the comics in the plot, and Tuo's existential dilemmas and choices are also intertextualized with it.
The comic world and the homeward train narrated by my brother are another line of the whole film. It condenses the whole film structure into "party night" on the one hand, a dark night where the ice storm is raging and human nature is turbulent. On the other hand, even from the Judging from my brother's two journeys home, these two return trips seem to be a cycle, but they are indeed a journey of growth and setbacks to get out of love.
The unique treatment of sound, such as the use of very oriental rhythms as the pad music throughout the film, creates a sense of emptiness that not only gazes at the abyss of human nature, but also is the normal state of human spiritual desolation and loneliness. There are also some toy sounds, and record jams and repetitions to simultaneously present the emotional boredom between siblings.
The weather setting of "Ice Storm" is too suitable for the plot, too coincident with the characters and the emotional changes between them. One of the party games is a romantic night - the frozen car is also thawed after starting, and the time is right...; "The train stops at the night of the ice storm" to accompany brother Paul's emotional trough in still darkness; the next day is sunny and the ice and snow melt, experienced The reunion after these passing, accidents, and heartbreaks is like interpreting the "return after going astray" in the comics. The family is sitting in the car going home, the love in their eyes cannot be expressed in words. All estrangements have been "resolved", just as "Pushing Hands" shows the complex involvement of family relationships, the dearest ones always hurt each other, and they can't be separated from each other. In any case, in the end, what everyone learns in the long or short journey is cherished.
On the topic of family and sex, the three generations of children, teenagers, and adults are fully represented, and the communication, seeing, and even slapping the face, embarrassing encounters, and post-mortem education, etc., are all in the family. The character relationship is set quite naturally, hey, it's very good.
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