This film explores, I think, the theme of life and happiness. A traditionally depressed middle-aged man refused when his first love told him to start over. He said that even if he lived again, it would still be the same, and it was really unnecessary. Life is like reincarnation, and history keeps repeating itself. The shot constantly alternates between [a middle-aged man and his first love in Japan] and [his daughter and her teenage boyfriend in Taipei], holding hands, hugging, and fleeing for the first time alone. This seems to be saying that the scene of the teenager is the memory of the middle-aged man, and the life of the middle-aged man is the future of the teenager. When I was young, I was always unwilling to be like this, and I was unwilling to be like that, but when I reached middle age, I found that my life was not the one I was unwilling to do back then? No matter if you feel the ridicule of life or the helplessness of fate, what if it happens again? All that remains is a sigh.
The mother-in-law, who has been in a coma, seems to be a mirror in the film. The characters walk up to her bed and talk to her, reflecting only their own lives. Minmin discovers the absurdity of life in the story-day after day repetition, emptiness and meaninglessness; Adi's story discovers the truth of his life, and his words make him feel embarrassed; Tingting is talking about self-blame, NJ is talking about himself Regarding the perception of life, only Yangyang did not say anything, and he would say it at the end. Correspondingly, the director always shoots the characters in the room from outside the glass, and the intention seems to be very obvious. Through the bright lights and the dazzling city as a backdrop, the human heart is so desolate, hesitant, and helpless. rely on. At night, the road is constantly flowing, where are people going?
Not only the characters in the film are confused, but the director is also trying hard to explore, and he is also confused. NJ is a traditional man with a sense of responsibility. In the outside business, he does not seem to be in harmony with the intriguing business. In the family, in the face of various barriers, he seems to have more than his heart and lack of strength; NJ's wife is in daily life, Feeling the meaninglessness of life and having nowhere to go, he turned to the mountains to take refuge in Buddhism. Later, he found that it was still the same, and the troubles of life were still inextricable; The passage at the end of the film is about the confusion about "death". In this sense, he is old.
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