Tom and Gerri are really happy, and the story revolves around them, but it's not a story about happiness. Or rather it's a neutral story. You can think of it as the happy life of Tom and Gerri's family of capitalist middle-class families; you can also just use them as background colors to make the misfortunes of Mary, Ken, Ron, the female patient... even more unfortunate.
Mary, who was slightly neurotic, was in a state of anxiety from beginning to end. She began to think that her misfortune was simply due to the lack of a car, which seemed to bring even greater misfortune into her life. It can be said that the car was the last straw that broke Mary.
At the end of the film, the Tom family's laughter finally disappeared from Mary's world. She sat there awkwardly, looking at the Tom family. All the laughter and laughter at that moment was just to make the cold colder, and in the end, it was cold. The camera fades out and Mary disappears. The film ends and starts again. I see Mary sitting in the consulting room with a tired look and silence, asking the doctor for two sleeping pills.
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