After reading some film reviews, most of them focus on discussing the Baron's story line and some detailed logic discussions, and even over-interpret it, but ignore an important information, that is, what is the so-called "antidote"?
The film is divided into four timelines to tell a story about the antidote. The four timelines are the male protagonist's workplace, the male protagonist's father, the male protagonist's mother, and the legend of the baron. The main line is the male protagonist's workplace task, and the sub-line is the legend of the baron. The story line of the male protagonist's father and mother is a psychological suggestion, so the context of dividing the film is very clear.
Workplace antidote
There are two important pieces of information in the title. One is that an outstanding employee died of a heart attack after working overtime late at night, implying that the boss is squeezing the employee's labor force. The second is that the male protagonist reads a letter in the boardroom. The content of the letter is roughly to express that the boss has seen through the intrigue in the workplace, and the shareholders are fighting each other for power and profit, so they go to recuperate privately to relieve mental stress. The shareholders use administrative means to force the newly promoted male protagonist to get the boss back and realize the interests of the shareholders. The boss actually has no physical illness, just an escape from real life. The antidote the boss is looking for is understood to be a "spiritual antidote".
The antidote to memory
The male protagonist is going to go on business for a while. Before the trip, he visited the mother in the nursing home and told her to send her to a better nursing home, but the mother actually just wanted to be with her son and did not want to go to the nursing home. Soon, the mother died, and the male protagonist took the ballerina made by his mother as a relic. Here it is implied that the male protagonist neglects to care for his family because he is too devoted to his career. The dreaming ballerina appears a few times as an important symbol in the second half of the film. keep reminding the audience,
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