The most important thing in this film is whether the connection with the world outside of oneself is achieved. The old man next door to where he lives, connected to the world by radio. As for Yu Fu, there is not a single shot that shows him taking the initiative to contact others, and he doesn't even see him getting along with his son. Home and Yumiko is just a place he must return to. He forms a closed tunnel of life with the tracks he and his bicycle pass near his home. The train not far from home passed by again and again, taking people from here to the outside world, and from the outside world to here, and he always stayed in his tunnel. Before his son married his mother, the old man next door gave him candy, which gave him a touch that his father hardly ever had.
Yumiko, who had lost her husband for the first time, almost lost her connection, and bowed her head many times, unmoved by her son's cry. In the house in the sea village, Yumiko was asked by the old woman outside the house if she needed to buy crabs, and had a passive contact. The old woman who went to sea for a long time and returned, made her feel the power of life. In the end, she was entangled with Yu Fu's inexplicable death again, and came to the seaside where she felt at ease to seek answers.
After listening to Minxiong's words about his father being summoned by the sea, she took the initiative to sit next to his father and share the good weather with him. She once again accepted the beauty of this world, and in these two old men without a partner, she understood the problem of Yu Fu and finally let go. It wasn't that Yu Fu's death without words made her puzzled, it was just a heart-wrenching hourly chime, and she should have noticed the difference every second.
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