Moving, to me is probably a feeling - ambiguous, vague, but not specious. It is firmly there.
It happened in a posh building, inhabited by a jumble of rich people and concierges. "Hedgehog" is the little girl's word for the concierge Renee. In fact, this is a broader term, and there are many, many reasons outside of Renee, outside of class barriers, that make many, many people live as hedgehogs.
"Death" is the most talked about topic in the whole film. From the beginning of the whole film, the little girl is going to die; throughout the whole film, is the little girl's consideration and imaginary experience of different ways of dying; at the end of the film, Renee's death, and the little girl's abandonment of death. Perhaps this is the end and culmination of the whole philosophy, death.
However I am not a philosopher, I am talking about "living".
"Alive" is not "life", it is the state of people at the bottom. When Renee changed her hairstyle and put on a French coat, the upper class women would not recognize her; her inferiority complex, her struggles... The concierge is a profession that should be eliminated by society in the eyes of male protagonists. Renee's choice is not wrong, the only way to maintain a career is to do what others think you should do; a life that is trivial in the eyes of others must be lived with extra effort. So she pays attention to the rules, works carefully, and hides herself. She is a respectable group of people in society, even if her status is low, she still retains a part of herself. Maybe that's why she chose to love in the end - whether it was "Anna Karenina" inspired or not, she had the qualities of pursuit and freedom from the beginning.
"Alive" is the choice of the rich. This sentence is really bleak. When the poor have no time to think about death and just want to get through each day, the rich mostly either think about how to live the day casually, or how to die.
But "alive" without traces is not the same as "death".
Perhaps the way for people to truly live is to live a secret world in their hearts.
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