Humans are God's illegitimate sons, and we spend our whole lives searching for the "father" who cast us into this world.
The sister and brother's "searching for the father" in the film is not only a specific incident with absurdity, but also an inquiry about the Greek identity and spirit, and a philosophical thought with a clear symbolic meaning, a question about "Who am I?" "Where did I come from?" Existential thinking.
With doubts, I embarked on the journey of life. On the clear and confused road, there are cowardice, doubts, misfortunes, and absurdities. All the signs of life are like broken hands emerging from the waves, pointing to the unknown darkness The land, like a broken film, shows the tree of life that cannot be seen clearly.
There is always a vast poetry in the cruel world, so that the "growth process" of the sister and brother will not be completely cruel and hopeless. But, does the scenery in the fog really exist? If there is, why "the so-called Yiren is on the water side". If it really doesn't exist, how did we come to this world? What are you living for?
I also wondered whether the encounters between the sister and brother constitute a larger intertext, and does everything they experience on the road contain the life experiences of their parents? Is it the answer they are looking for...
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