I've been thinking about this movie many times recently, intentionally or not. The film presents the fate of a lonely shepherd, sheep, trees and coal in a remote and quiet village. The transformation of human, animal, plant, and mineral life forms and the reincarnation of the soul are explored. The Pythagoreans believed that the soul is immortal, and after death, the soul can be transferred to other living things, and rotate between humans and animals and plants. Aristotle divided people, animals, plants, and inanimate things into different classes. And what I see in Fran Martino's films is that all things have a spirit, and all beings are equal. There is not a single line in the film that is simply narrated by the camera lens, but it is poetic and illusory, which is thought-provoking.
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