In such a Norman Rockwell-esque middle-class American community, little Charlie is actually out of place, and she expresses her existential anxieties at the beginning of the film. When the whole picture of this idyllic community is unfolded, the incompetent order controller (police), the drowsy and suffocating family life and other elements emerge, forming a fierce conflict with the undercurrent. On the one hand, Uncle Charlie is a villain full of Nietzsche's quotations in the style of Reaper of Souls, and on the other hand, he hides under the shell of a righteous and charming elite white male. Heart, maybe this is also Xi Fat's bad taste, everyone under the American moral cloak is just a shadow, a chaotic skin. In addition to the paradoxical and ambiguous relationship between the two, Uncle Charlie is also the self-psychological projection of little Charlie, but with the death of Uncle Charlie at the end of the film, Xi Fat once again teased this kind of "pure and sweet character with the pastor". We live forever", illustrating the futileness of a young woman trying to find order in a hypocritical world of irrationality and faith. She will spend her life of "banality and stupidity" in constant attempts to ask for meaning, leaving only Uncle Charlie's huge Shadows and endless nothingness.
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