"the world to come" appears after the dialogue between Abigail and Taille about imagination at the end, and a handwritten "the world to come" appears. This should not be the title of the film, but what Abigail wrote in his diary. This sentence can be understood from two perspectives.
One is the tragic ending. There is no doubt that the Taille illusion at the end pushes the tragic color of the film to the extreme. The appearance of Taille gave Abigail great hope, but the people of Taille have gone, this hope is a bubble of disillusionment, when Abigail opened his eyes, the bubble disappeared, and she was still faced with a gray life. The new world can only be reached by imagination, to escape from reality for a short time, and to be liberated. Abigail wrote "the world to come", with the delicate emotions carved by Taille, to image the kind and inclusive world of Taille and Naille. It's a pity that that era did not allow her to turn her imagination into reality.
The second is a hopeful ending. But at the same time, Abigail wrote "the world to come" in her diary, went to image that illusory world, planted the seeds of hope in her heart, and made a beautiful idea for the world she longed for. At that time, information was blocked and social circles were narrow. Taille and Abigail were also exploring a new type of social relationship. It has no precedent, no template, but the emotion just happens. Rather than stifling this emotion, they let it develop, to image what the world this relationship builds up to be. It also found a reasonable reason for this behavior to "farm income, reduce the burden". As people of the later era, we saw that the predecessors who were limited by the era did not give up the exploration of life and destiny, but still made bold and delicate imaginations for the next era. This is a breakthrough beyond the times. The development of the times requires these breakthroughs. From this perspective, the ending is full of hope.
Of course, each era has its own limitations. If Taille hadn't died, the two of them would have been together. I don't think it's HE. What is the standard for measuring HE? Did you kiss? Still living together? Or stay together forever? Then if it is based on the standard of physical contact, this film is already HE (laughs). The situation of that era was there, and it was destined to end in BE. In a situation where life is still threatened and life is not guaranteed, will people's emotions be valued? So the more the environment is, the more precious the relationship between Abigail and Taille becomes. But in the context of that era, this emotion is destined to die, it is better to destroy it at the brightest moment, and freeze the most precious emotion at that moment. It jumps out of a series of natural processes such as the dilution and demise of emotions, and uses the power of the tragedy of the times to set off the preciousness of this emotion.
In the 21st century a few hundred years later, the world of that image, will it come?
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