In the process of watching, I thought of "Waiting for Godot", which is equally absurd. Life is a process of constant repetition, doing the same thing every day, waiting for the savior to come, and becoming a spiritual wanderer. There is also the masterpiece of magic realism "One Hundred Years of Solitude". The history of Macondo has grown from nothing to nothing. The whole society is a circle, and the spiritual shape of all people is a circle, returning from the origin to the origin. The three main characters in this are actually undergoing a transformation, and the inheritance of identities alternates. For 35 years of life, they have been fighting beasts, from one cycle to another, from one identity to another. The evolution of identity, Constantly abandoning identity and forgetting oneself, thus entering into the predicament of self.
What the film shows us is a subconscious world, but it is a reflection of the real world. The journey of our life is not about studying, working and getting married, from student to migrant worker to husband/wife, then to father/mother, and finally to grandfather/grandmother. We are trapped in the "identity" in which we repeat our lives, taking time, until the next stage opens up a new identity, and then repeats.
The director deliberately exaggerated real life, and used alien space to show this day-to-day life. Everyone is trapped in it, getting the same food, doing the same things over and over, eating apples, running stairs, cooking. It was not until the last moment before his death that he remembered his true identity, but he could no longer change any facts. The next person, even after hearing the advice, falls into the same fate - forgetting and repeating.
Faced with this predicament, the director did not tell us the solution. He used a very fast narrative rhythm at the end of the film, making it seem like a mystery, but to put it bluntly, it is actually the simplest truth, "Don't forget your original intention."
The meaning of life is not in Sisyphus' repetitive behavior of pushing boulders, but in Sisyphus' fighting spirit.
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