Living in a dream seems to be a relief, away from the tragedy of real life, but it has caused spiritual hesitation.
Let me first talk about this form of expression that I think. It is not easy to be a director. It is very ambitious to mix so many different or even diametrically opposed views in a short film. But I thought it was not good. First, the content of the movie is too complicated, the main line and structure are difficult to see, let alone the movie audience who only watched it once. Second, this kind of mere words for each viewpoint can easily lead to two extremes: it is naive to the audience who thinks more about this kind of philosophy and science issues, and it will cause the overall impression to be lost. For those viewers who don't care much about these metaphysical things, it will form the impression of a hanging book bag. Third, since as a commercial film, the producer and the audience have mutual interest needs, so why bother with these imaginary things to deceive the audience. The whole film is more like the director’s babbling, a secret self-consideration, why bother to show off or deceive yourself. With this effort, the director can fully expand the content of the film and share it in his small circle as an underground or private performance. However, this form of expression is also beneficial. The audience will more or less have similar views, which can be regarded as a collision of thinking.
The content is very obscure, and the people who can really see it and fully understand it are amazing. The director's attitude is, if you understand it, forget it and don't understand it. There are thousands of people, and they don't necessarily have any specific views on the views in the movie. This film may welcome over-interpretation.
I found many things that I hadn't found before.
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