Immediately following the funeral scene, Oscar gave the reason behind all of his actions throughout the sequel to having an empty coffin. "It doesn't make sense." He needed "make sense." sense", a reason for him to understand what happened.
The next series of scenes, through the father and son's favorite game "Exploration Journey", retraced the close relationship between Oscar and his father, and also made emotional for Oscar's extreme resistance to his father's death and the journey of "finding the lock". And the foreshadowing of the ability, the unfinished game "Finding the Sixth District" with the father has also become another plot line in the film.
After that is the memory of the day of 9/11. Key item 1: phone messages, which appeared for the first time, and will appear several times in the film. Why does Oscar hide the comments?
Immediately after key item 2: the key appears. The official start of the "lock-finding journey".
After that is the longest section of the film. Although it includes an acquaintance with my grandfather and a major conflict with my mother, it still feels too long and makes people feel a little out of the way.
In this passage, through the conflict with his mother and his own inner monologue, it shows that Oscar loves his mother emotionally, but thinks that his mother cannot understand him, at least not like his father, which also paved the way for the strength of the final mother-son reconciliation scene. .
The lock was finally found, but unfortunately it was left to his son by someone else's father. In front of a stranger, Oscar finally revealed the reason for hiding his phone messages and punishing himself. The stranger's forgiveness comforted Oscar somewhat. In this scene, the two main mysteries of the phone message and the key are solved, and it also brings out a point of the film, "What matters is not what is found, but the process of finding, because the process itself has brought about change. "
Back home, after a lapse of more than a year, Oscar finally vented his accumulated emotions. Oscar assured his mother that he would return to normal. During the conversation, the mother also made a confession of her concern for Oscar. In shared memories of Hanks, Oscar reconciles with his mother and brings the film to its climax.
At the end, Oscar wrote letters to all the "Black" he visited, and he had already begun to imply the meaning of "The Sixth District of New York", and finally found his father's message under the swing, and the last plot line "Finding the Sixth District" finally ended. , Father's affirmation finally allowed Oscar to find a balance in his life, "Now it's time to go home."
In the final picture, Oscar's smile and the rising swing also echo the fall of the title. After the wind and rain, the rainbow is finally seen.
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