Most movie reviews don't say what I want to say the most.
What this film shows is a way of life, a way of life in a small place, the cultural traditions there, the ethical values there, and the conflicts that take place on that blurry border.
In today's globalized world, many relatively stable and closed local cultures are slowly being integrated and unified, and the world is inevitably becoming the same. Maybe years from now, diversity will win back into the mainstream in a dramatic way we can't imagine, but imagine that's science fiction.
The lifestyle of any place has its beauty. Since people want to stabilize, they must choose to get along with each other, whether they are close relatives or strangers. The village in the movie shows some kind of traditional values that are about to pass away. The most touching thing is that in addition to taking care of each other among family members, it is to solve the affairs of one's own family in one's own home. If people can act with conscience and morality, the super-tribal, cloud-like state apparatus has little need to intervene, and they can solve it on their own. And this is the strangest, most heartwarming, inspiring part of the film. This movie is a kind of small ideal zone.
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