If such a "love" story needs to be presented, it has to be understood from a human perspective and emotion, so I think it may not be constructive to criticize its anthropocentrism. It seems that when we know things, we are also accustomed to using our accumulated experience and traces of the past to project onto the unknown, whether it is an unfamiliar species or an art that is still incomprehensible. This approach is like anthropocentrism. Self-experience and knowledge Projecting into the unknown is just a narrow version of anthropocentrism in the category of personal knowledge of the unfamiliar. Simply criticizing anthropocentrism may just be a cocoon.
However, the question of how to recognize it remains unsolved. One of the two voices today supports this anthropocentric methodology and pursues the ultimateization of personal feelings, after all, personal feelings are relatively unique; the other is trying to erase the existence of subject experience in the process of knowing things. Should we go further and further in our own logic and experience and obtain a gentle narrative (although there is no lack of self-moving suspicion) or use a zero-degree narrative to record this mysterious mollusk? What moved me more about this film was the emotion given by the recorder, the day-to-day gaze. Even if it is self-moving, the tenderness in it has already moved people.
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