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In an interview with The New Yorker in 2019, Li Gray said that he did not have many good memories of his youth, and said that his father did not have a good relationship with his family when he was young: "My mother always tells me: 'I always wonder if your father is off work. What happened on the way home, why does your dad always come home so late. One day I went to the supermarket to buy something, just saw your dad get off work, I watched him walk out of the subway station, this store look at that store Look, reading books and newspapers aimlessly, why do you think your dad is such a careless person?' I thought at the time: 'Where is he careless, he would rather wander around than go home.'" Gray said that Ad Astra is the most personal of all his films, and this parallel is also its most personal place. Gray wrote the father who wandered away from get off work to escape loneliness as an escape from inner loneliness. Clifford on the edge of the solar system. In the end, Roy went to pull Clifford along the tough and strong blood line, but he couldn't pull it back. When Clifford floated to the edge of the lonelier and more irredeemable galaxy that he couldn't reach, that moment really killed me, like a flood of emotions. The tyranny that hits the soul like an avalanche. Your own son is standing in front of you, why are you running away! I don't know how many times Gray asked his father and himself that question, and how much effort he made to chase after him. But the gentle and compassionate Gray didn't question or vent. He just sent his father to a place of redemption that he couldn't see. Hesitating in despair that he couldn't continue, he finally took the courage to lift the iron plate through the stars and return to the origin. It's really a blessing to have such a director digging his heart out for others to see, thanks to Gray.
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