On one level, the film is telling a story of finding oneself by abandoning the shackles of the world. Because everyone has a kind of lure that seems to be customized only for you to escape from the world. It has a charisma for you that others can't understand, but because there is always more resistance in a more realistic world (this This resistance includes active sacrifices made by yourself due to responsibility or other secondary desires) to hinder your "dream pursuit". The story begins with the beautiful depiction of dreams and the protagonists' decision to abandon "real life", and ends with them finding the most precious part of the relationship between themselves and the world around them. Its wisdom is not only that it depicts a solution that can achieve harmony between isolated self-pleasure and the surrounding worldly life, but also that it conveys the beauty of dreams, the beauty of nature, and the beauty of reality into a pleasing spiritual beauty. In the process of wrestling between their own world and their real identities, the protagonists approach their truer selves to varying degrees. The reason why the film is full of warm and upward power is because the creator treats the "selfish" behavior of these "self-dream seekers" with an inclusive and friendly attitude, and believes that the upward power of love and beauty also contains the same secular responsibility, and This power is finally enough to make "bird watchers" realize that they are as inseparable as the beauty of dreams. This is not a simple naive disease that glorifies the world, but a kind and positive worldview.
From another level, the strategy adopted by the three bird watchers in the film and their mental journey during the one-year competition is also a simple outline of the external law of affairs. Because even if birdwatchers enter the race with their own obsessions with their dreams, these competitors form a model of a secular social circle when they get together. The three protagonists represent three typical family relationships, three social positions, three mental disorders and three personalities. The intrigue or win-win cooperation experienced by these three people in the bird watching competition is no different from what the interest groups in the market are debating. Similarly, with a positive world outlook, Bright and Stu, who are allied with each other, not only achieve good results in utilitarian endings, but also gain a new realm of self-knowledge. Unscrupulous to keep his crown, Kenny decides to completely indulge in self-loving dreams as a lone winner embracing the birding numbers that matter most to him. Although this choice is extremely stupid to others.
The above two levels of expression are constantly interspersed and dissolved in the expression of the whole film. But in comparison, the theme of the film points to the first level, and the victory of the strategy and tactics of the second level is more like a natural occurrence after actively understanding the problems of the first level.
Since the relationship between the movie and the dream is already well known to everyone, the positive or negative energy that structures the fate of all the characters in the dream will become the most important concept to instill in the audience. And the inclusiveness and intelligence of this positive energy will be an important criterion for evaluating such films.
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