When we try to find the meaning of a thing/value, we often try to change a part of it to see if it has a qualitative impact on the whole of the thing. For example, if you want to use your intuition to figure out whether "university is a place for people to learn knowledge (class), make friends (join clubs), and finally make people mature into society" whether it is logical and social general value judgment, you can use this kind of The way to think deeply about this proposition - if there is a university without clubs, will it affect making friends (like-minded people come together), and what kind of butterfly effect will the students of this school have when they enter the society. This is a bit like the method of controlling variables, but it is not strict, and is only applicable to people's intuitive judgment and inner evidence.
The core setting of the film is very simple: to speed up the process of life, the variable is "the speed of time passing", and its appreciation is nothing more than exploring the meaning of life, or the procedural value of life. For example, in Guy and Prisca's marriage, the long period of time has become a torment in a sense, and the existence of Prisca's tumor has caused a shadow and uncertainty to his life. Compared with marriage in real life, due to some imbalance between husband and wife, such as the relative weakness of one party, a sense of "crisis", or in other words, insecurity, makes the joys and sorrows of both parties gradually disconnected, as if the existing Happiness and stability are crumbling - the same is true for many families in reality, struggling to maintain for the sake of their children or because they still have love for each other, but actually suffer because of pessimism about the future and distrust of each other. Although their children know the truth, they are too young to have a say in matters between their parents. Therefore, until the daughter on the beach "grows up", she will have the opportunity to obtain the truth, which will affect the survival of the family. power.
Under the setting that all living beings are suffering and the bottom of the pot is black, the passage of time has accelerated. For some families, the sense of uncertainty has disappeared. This sense of uncertainty has disappeared. The two of them were finally able to relieve their too strong sense of the future and fully experience the happiness of the moment. In stark contrast is another family, the doctor + wife + little girl family. The passage of time undoubtedly accelerated the occurrence of the tragedy. The doctor's wife paid attention to the appearance of the body, and the doctor himself tried his best to conceal his "abnormality". Both of them were too greedy for the present and had no sense of the future (which was owned by the previous family). too many), and all of this is clearly out of time. The rapid passage of time has caused the family to fall apart, so does the family's "process" make sense? It seems that when perfection is only an appearance, even if this appearance is given a definite time limit, the process of maintaining that appearance seems absurd.
The theme of whether the meaning of life lies in the process can also be seen from the events between children - namely rapid growth + pregnancy in ignorance. This makes people wonder whether growing up means hormones, physical feelings (for example, the grown-up children in the film repeatedly expressed that they "feel different from before"), or process values in life (such as Trent and The little girl’s regret at growing up in a hurry without attending the prom, and the siblings building a castle on the beach calmly at the end), the movie’s answer seems to be a combination of the two.
The film does not just want to explore family relationships, but to further analyze the process of life, setting up the isolated existence of black Mid-sized Sedan. Obviously, when he came to the beach alone without children, he did not clearly feel the passage of time, but his loneliness, suspicion, and incomprehension also made it difficult for him to obtain redemption on the beach. The separation of social status and personal style left him basically without effective interaction except for being constantly attacked by doctors. The reduction of "interaction" with the group in the course of life has made the panic and discomfort brought by the accelerated passage of time not added to others, and the redemption brought by the accelerated passage of time to others has not been given to him.
Nursing and psychiatrist families are representatives of family members who know each other's imperfections but remain solid and positive. And the end of time for this seemingly ordinary and universal individual life is a tragedy—accident, illness, missing, death. But the couple's encounter on the beach is obviously not as bizarre as the doctor's family, because the passage of time has not affected the core of the relationship between the two.
As for the end of the film, crossing the coral reef, jumping out of the curse of time and the intergenerational cycle of life and death, is because the two brothers and sisters let go of their fear instinct about the passage of human time. Contrary to biological instincts to gain divinity, and thus get the reward of fate.
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