In the short film, the old man is alone, his wife is gone, his daughter is gone, he stays at home, always with a pipe in his mouth, fishing occasionally, looking at the sky, he is so lonely. It was a strange sea. Every once in a while, the sea level would rise, and the old man had to build his own house layer by layer like building blocks. Layer by layer, it is the old man's memories. When he put on a wetsuit and dived underwater to find the pipe he had dropped, wasn't he looking for his own memories?
In this way, the old man went down layer by layer, and the life of the old man slowly unfolded before our eyes...
In my opinion, the sea is just as ruthless as time. The size of the house is like the life of an old man. The sea water keeps rising, and the life of the old man is constantly coming to an end. On each floor, every era of the old man is preserved: he and his lover have known each other since childhood, then got married, had a daughter, and when her daughter grew up, she married, and his wife also fell ill and died. He was the only one left, looking at the man The photo on the wall...
The music is very sad, coupled with the inexplicable style of painting, it makes people feel extremely sad. Although there is no language in the whole film, every movement of the old man expresses his lonely mood.
Rising seas hint at this environmental theme of global warming. I thought of it when I saw the house being built, but at the back, the old man was digging out his own memories, and he was narrating his good life, which made me think that the whole film is more focused on expressing a person's life. A person will eventually grow old one day. At that time, the memories that remain in our minds the most are those warm and happy memories.
Although the old man is very lonely, his heart still feels warm. Because he has so many good memories, at the end of the film, he poured two glasses of wine, one for his long-absent wife and one for himself... How much the old man loves his wife...
This is a story about environmental protection, a story about love, and a story about life. It makes us think in that sad music, what is the meaning of human life?
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