The two storylines in the film are interspersed in parallel, but the chronological sequence of the two events is inconsistent. One is the story line of the young Lao Wufei, the other is the adventure of breaking his hand to find his master (La Wufei), and on the way back from the broken hand, he constantly flashes back to Lao's childhood past to supplement the background.
Lowe's childhood dream was to become a musician and an astronaut, but a car accident killed both his parents. The ill-fated Lao was engaged in the low-level job of delivering pizza as an adult. A late arrival led him to meet Miss Martinez. Impressed by the horse's concern, Lao kept approaching the horse, and stayed in the horse's uncle's workshop, becoming a teammate. Apprentice carpenter. One night, Lao took Ma to visit the wooden igloo made for her, and confessed the fact that he approached Ma. Ma was disgusted, and the two broke up. Law was frustrated with drinking that night and had a fight with others. The next day, his right hand was accidentally cut off by a chainsaw while at work.
Severed Hand: First of all, the fantastic plot of "the severed hand has self-awareness and tries to find the owner" becomes the main driving force of the narrative and the key factor to attract the audience. Broken hand is a part of Lao, but it is not controlled by Lao, so he can break away from the shackles of reality, and go on a fantasy and romantic pursuit in the flashing childhood memories. This trip is not only a pursuit of childhood solace, but also a pursuit of self and ideals. In the end, the broken hand finally found its owner, but when it was infinitely close, it was not connected. This plot became the finishing touch of the story: acknowledging the existence of the break, acknowledging the estrangement that cannot be eliminated, rather than forcibly healing.
Flies: The flies that appear multiple times in the film are both a key setting that drives the plot and an important imagery. In childhood memories, my father told Lao by catching flies: You can't do everything right, that's life. A fly is a symbol of fate, and one cannot control fate, just as one cannot catch a fly. It was in an attempt to catch a fly that Lau lost his right hand, which seemed to symbolize his failure to rebel against fate. But in other episodes, the possibility of resistance is revealed: Father said that you were surprised, and Lao said that you had to make fake moves. At the end of the film, the actor's act of re-recording the tape also symbolizes his resistance to fate. But the problem is that your resistance to fate is not the arrangement of fate?
Tape: The tape carried Lao's pain. At the end, he re-recorded the tape and jumped on the tower crane to express his resistance to fate. And Ma also happened to reach a reconciliation with him through the bridge of the tape, which was very clever.
The first dialogue between the male and female protagonists: first, through the dialogue between Ma and Lao, to reflect Ma's harshness and inhumanity, but soon Ma's sentence "I'm talking about an accident (not pizza), are you injured?" Turning, creating the kindness and thoughtfulness of the horse, the character image is immediately three-dimensional and plump. The key to Lao's interest in horses lies in the brief, heart-to-heart communication between the two behind him—
"What can you see from above?"
"The horizon is in front of me, nothing is there"
"I said it must be peaceful to feel isolated like this"
"Rain is silent, it whizzes by"
"I feel like I'm on a piece of ice...in a storm, and I'm hiding in my igloo, and when the wind is strong, the wind is very strong, I can feel the building shaking, I I can't say it, it feels like..."
"It's like the whole world is drunk"
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