I don't understand magical realism, so I won't comment on the bizarre logic in the story. The time span of the film is too large, and it especially tests the director's ability to control, from the birth of a child to middle age, and the protagonist has a face when he grows up, and he has returned to middle age, not to mention wrinkles, not even a single gray hair, time. The split is based on subtitles, so I don't think it's very successful in terms of timing. In fact, the story format looks cool, but the core is still a more old-fashioned story: female liberation, traditional dross. Moreover, the three sisters are also three different representatives. The eldest is completely inherited from the mother's arrogance and tradition, and the second is the second extreme, desperate for freedom and the bravest, which is also the theme of the film's explanation. Tina is somewhere in between, his real rise comes after the death of his eldest sister's child, when "mother's love" lifts him up and makes him rebel. But the reason why he still didn't have the last laugh, I think is that she was not liberated from the shackles, otherwise the two would not have gotten married after so many years. It was a good ending for both of them.
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