I watched this movie twice, in the Mandarin version. When I watched it for the first time, it was a bit surprising that the ending came to an abrupt end. My whole attention was on the development of the plot. For example, did the little girl die? What happened to the old Japanese man? In the end, the ending didn't tell us the answer. However, when I watched it for the second time, I got an unexpected harvest. Isn't this a story of redemption and redemption.
First of all, the role of the gatekeeper, as an ordinary person, plays the role of gatekeeper in this seemingly rich and wealthy area. She is insignificant and no one cares, but she has an amazing elegance. in stark contrast. What caused the change of the janitor? It turned out to be spiritual food. From the room she lived in, we could know that her small space actually left a separate space to make a study, where she could "hide herself". Talking freely to many people, I think this is what the gatekeeper tells us, to achieve self-redemption, to be spiritually independent.
Speaking of the little girl, in the eyes of her family, she is an ignorant child, does not respect her elders, and likes to hide. Her parents even suspect that she has "autism". The truth is that the little girl is sick. Adults and little girls are smart, and they can see through life and death at such a young age, and begin to think about the ultimate proposition of life, what is the meaning of life. Versatile, and for orderly arrangement of death actions, I have to say that the little girl is a genius. Even in the face of reality, no one understands her, only the gatekeepers see her as an independent person. So when the little girl said she wanted to be a janitor, her parents took it as a joke, but the janitor responded to him, telling her that she wanted to be a princess.
The development of the final plot is strung together by the Japanese Xiaolang, and the image itself is also modest and reasonable, so in the end the gatekeeper, the little girl and the three of them formed a complete story, and the Japanese Xiaolang opened the gatekeeper's heart, I saw the grace in her heart, and I began to pursue her. I saw the little girl's talent and thought she was very thoughtful. Just when the janitor decided to accept love, an accident took her life, the ending was unexpected but felt right.
It also responded to the little girl who said at the beginning that life is not about when you die and when you die, but what you do when you die. From this point of view, the gatekeeper has completed two redemptions after the death of the dead, one is Accepting love, redemption of self, the second is to redeem the little girl.
It was the death of the gatekeeper that made the little girl realize that life is not about when and how you die, but what you are doing when you die. The death of the janitor let her know that when she was alive, she was spiritually independent and had the hope of love before her death, so the little girl should live with this hope.
I think this ending is also a foreshadowing of the goldfish being rescued by the janitor after being poisoned and thrown into the toilet.
In general, the whole film still makes people think, let people understand the matter of death, they need to stop and read, the story is very simple, let's see what you see.
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