18 years ago, I couldn't understand what it meant at all. I only remembered the paragraph "passengers who woke up in their sleep found that those who were not asleep on the plane disappeared". After so many years, the mention of science fiction flashed across the darkened cabin with the feared faces of middle-aged women in black clothes: they were all gone, all gone!
In fact, my memory is also wrong, there are no middle-aged women in black clothes among the people who wake up. It also happens to echo the theme of the movie: "As long as the past, all the time labels are gone, they are swallowed by monsters", which of course also includes memory.
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