Based on the novel of the same name, the film tells the story of a father and daughter living in an urban forest park, and a small mistake they made led to their discovery and life turned upside down.
This is a very rich film. In addition to the living conditions of marginalized groups, the reintegration of post-war traumatized veterans into society and the education of their children, this film has also done a good thought experiment, that is, in today's society, in a state of being completely alienated, How far can you escape.
"Leave No Trace" is an indescribable movie. It doesn't have a big plot, but more of an atmosphere, a symbol, like a short fable. Its story is very simple, a father and daughter have been living in the forest park, picnic, tents, primitive, simple, self-sufficient. For the two of them, it was a happy life, but for others, it was an undisputed displacement. This piece of woodland belongs to the state, and living here violates relevant laws. They were accidentally discovered by a construction team, and the police came to take the father and daughter away. Since then, some subtle changes have begun.
There are clever echoes at the beginning and end of the story. At the beginning, the father and daughter joined forces to "exercise" to avoid the police who came to find them. They cooperated tacitly, and the daughter always followed behind the father. In the end, at the moment of separation, the two only Can silently look at each other and cry, no one can keep the other, but they still know that letting each other go where they want to go, this may be the best ending.
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