The film is full of symbolic images, the most worth mentioning is Bill Murray's sweatshirt. When Bill Murray wore the same style (two lines from arm to shoulder) but a different color sweatshirt appeared in the camera for the third time, I couldn't help laughing. I wonder how many pieces he has-this is high-level humor, but combined with Bill Murray's silent expression, it has another meaning-but three sets of similar clothes and a blank expression. The face shows the character's boring and complex character alive, which I think is quite clever. I think only Bill Murray's face can achieve this effect. Of course, by the end of the film, you will know that the function of the sweatshirt is more than that.
The film was originally started by an overzealous neighbor who summarized the symbols: pink, red ink, and typewriter. Just ask any woman who doesn't like pink. It's a good joke that the neighbor solemnly summed up a "clue" that is universal for women. And its greater effect is to convey a way of thinking, or way of watching movies, pulling the protagonist and the viewer into the maze of clues together.
Afterwards, the protagonist embarked on a trip to visit his ex-girlfriend, and clues emerged endlessly. All of the ex-girlfriends are acting stars, and only a few words and a look in the eyes reveal the possible mystery. Of course there is the pink everywhere. The protagonist becomes a "detective", even in his sleep, he is still flashing back the fragments with hidden clues. The same is true as a movie viewer.
Back from the trip, the accumulation of clues makes the protagonist more and more believe in the fact that he has a son, and he meets a young man who wears the same style and different color sweatshirt as himself (the fourth piece). He wished to believe that he was his son, and his drenched paternal love was a little nervous, which scared the young man away. Just as he was chasing his supposed son, a car drove by and the fifth sweatshirt appeared. The clues were confused and the protagonist was confused...
This fifth sweatshirt is the irony finishing touch to the end of the film. I actually want to laugh here, but I can’t laugh. Bill Murray’s desire for his son affects his sense of humor. Returning to the topic of symbols, the film has been releasing a large number of symbols and hinting at the truth behind the symbols, but at the end staged a scene of self-deprecating irony, bringing this semi-comedy and semi-ethical film to a new level. Should moviegoers also reflect on their experience of speculating on the meaning from the symbols and the ending from the clues? The protagonist is dizzy, and the audience should realize it.
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