This is a work that tries to present the absurd world of existentialism with daily investigations. All the symbolic plots serve this theme. The protagonist and the criminal he tries to catch share the same loneliness, and the outside is full of hostility. In this world, self-personality is constantly being eroded by a powerful collective personality, life seems to be controlled by a mysterious organization (the Jewish consortium in the film) (is it very Philips Dick?), the stage light makes people feel as if they have been thrown away Entering a closed world full of artificial light (daylight and moonlight), the encounter between the protagonist and the criminal is extremely fatalistic and absurd, and the long-distance reunion of two equally lonely souls has to die in an opposing society. Attribution, the criminal’s death in a natural shot indicates that the protagonist’s last hope of regaining his subjectivity is dashed. The process of an agent’s daily tasks inevitably evolves into the murder of the self, and there is something more bizarre, absurd, and fatalistic than this. ?
The CC version of the film can’t be more subtle. The agent’s back figure standing alone on the street accurately expresses the theme of the film: the process of a person becoming a symbol.
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