Watching the 189-minute version is like watching the history of the entire universe. The director obviously didn't want to limit himself to talking about family, otherwise he could have done better there. Every thing in the film seems to have its own intention, and every intention has its own metaphor - every hand, every foot, every natural landscape (sea, forest), those frogs, those dinosaurs , those lizards used to scare their mothers seem to be the epitome of the history of the tiny earth. I saw a neat city reflecting white light, and a comfortable dwelling. This is the order established by human beings. The hero's experience seems to have been repeatedly intertwined with the history of the earth. The structure of the film is like a symphony in a movie, and its ending deftly transports us back to where we started, like a soul out of the body and back again. (The son walks back to the room, the light flickers in the shadows) The grand universe has not made human beings small, but let us know how special we are.
The appearance of father and mother no longer needs me to say more, the director has already said everything I want to say with his pictures.
When we see humans walking on the sand of the shallow sea - they are in the sun, smiling gently. The camera switches subtly, and various people pass by in the background.
The door of the protagonist's family appears next to the beach, white sand... It tells us that "why can't we go back to when I was a child" that the child asked has been realized.
Our spirits return to where we started, where we can find those things that have been holding us back, or holding us up. As for the starting point? This story has been answering that question.
When our spirit crosses the starting point and crosses the door of life and death (at the end, the protagonist crosses the door twice, once to the light and once to the dark), this is also the reconciliation of our body with everyone and everything. The time is also the time when we come to the door of home in reality.
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