At the beginning of the film, the mysterious man is heating the fire by the lake, as if his eyes are aware of everything, calm, indifferent, indifferent and full of affection. Behind the vague fire, there is endless nothingness and emptiness. The boy's father is a conceited scientist who uses computers well and believes that all problems in the universe can be solved with 0s and 1s. The first half of the film is spent in a bland rhythm. The boy's confusion about life has become the spiritual goal throughout. The biggest contradiction is nothing more than father and aunt's understanding of God. These discussions are not only for the film's climax and The foreshadowing at the end is also the ultimate meaning of the film.
The climax started from an ordinary bottle of ink, the ink bottle suddenly burst, and the ink gurgled out like blue blood. Is this an accident? Or is it foreshadowing or telling something? So, my heart was lifted, eager to explore the metaphor behind the cracked ink bottle. I believe that almost all the audience can guess the result after seeing this. It can even be said that from the moment Dad calculated the thickness of the ice on the lake, it heralded the shattering of this scientific myth. There is a detail worth noting in the middle. After the father calculated the results, he still walked on the lake by himself. One can see the carefulness of a father and his love for his son, and the second shows that the ice is firm, which makes the following plot even more obvious. Surprisingly, the third shows that his father still has a sense of distrust in scientific computing - as his aunt said, he sometimes wonders, and the fourth is to let his father meet a mysterious man, like a silent dialogue between an anarchist and a government official, I believe this scene should be the highlight of the film - at least in spirit.
The ending was obvious. The boy who believed in his father and believed in science fell into the ice cave, and when the small, frozen body was salvaged, everyone knelt down - kneeling like the dead, or Kneel like a god, or simply succumb to an invincible fate.
The plot of the film is quite delicate, the use of the camera lens is also extremely mature, combined with the deep tones and the music full of supernatural colors, which brings people closer to God - just like facing the mysterious man.
It is worthy of being a masterpiece by a great director. There are hardly any flaws. From the visual balance to the indifference of the mind, the shock is like a slap in the face. A little voice, helpless sadness, and the depression that cannot be shouted have flowed to the bone marrow.
This is a movie about life and destiny, full of sense of fate and oppression, in which the power of man appears small and insignificant, but the self-consciousness is actually blindly pulled by an unreachable force. "Why do people live for?" "What is the meaning of death"... The answer to the question is that there is no answer, just like the boy's life, for a moment, no one knows what is going on - except for the God who set the trap.
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