The story begins with a soothing music, and the soft tones and lines make people feel the warmth and sadness of this film at once. At the beginning, the father and daughter on the screen are riding bicycles on the river bank, and the shadow of the big tree blocks most of the light, making the whole screen have a depressing feeling, as if something is going to happen. By the river, the father stopped the car and left suddenly, leaving behind the lonely figure of the child when he returned, and the daughter began to wait for a lifetime. Sad, time has turned waiting for my father into a habit, and I often have to wait and see when I go to the river. When the short hair turns into long hair, and the long hair turns into white hair, the daughter still pushes the car to the river to watch. However, the river had long since dried up and was full of tall reeds. Across the reeds I saw the boat that my father was rowing as he walked, the daughter curled up in the boat and the music seemed to stop. When she opened her eyes, she found her father standing in front of her, and the music reached its climax. She hurried to her father and found that she had become young too. The final picture is frozen at the moment when the two embrace each other tightly.
Death, reincarnation, and love, these are what this film is going to tell us, the spinning wheels and children and old people that recur in the film. It implies the process and reincarnation of life. When the daughter's bicycle falls down and no longer wears it, it implies that her daughter's life is over. The father's departure may be a kind of letting go. The daughter's growing up father should "leave" as a matter of course. This is a kind of letting go of love for his daughter. We are all a bit like that little girl who grew up looking forward to her father's return, and longing for her father's love in difficult times.
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