1. This story tells us that human suffering comes from communication difficulties.
2. In order to illustrate this truth, the director selected several examples of communication difficulties causing pain.
2.5 One of the examples of the suffering heroine is simply mute.
3. The director put these several examples together in a random manner to form a film with a length of nearly three hours.
3.5 It's like putting a few radishes, a few onions, and a few slices of vegetables on a plate, saying, this is a vegetable salad.
4. In order to show that this is salad and not vegetables, the director finds a subtle connection between several stories.
4.5 But these connections are so far-fetched that they suggest that it's just vegetables, not salad greens.
5. A few minutes in the second half of the film are particularly gorgeous.
The rest of the 5.5 isn't too flashy, or doesn't seem to have much in common with flashy lenses.
6. The nude girl appeared in the film, so it was rated R.
7. The director finally told us in words that children are the hope of life. But no reason was given.
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