This animation with a unique narrative perspective uses its spiritual and creepy hand to grasp the wound that is hidden in the deepest part of the human heart and never wants to be mentioned. Although the wound has been scabbed, it was gently As soon as it was twisted, blood was overflowing. After watching the whole animation, I don't want to close the video window, and listening to the wonderful soundtrack with a strong sense of sadness, it feels like sitting on a bus at night, everyone is sleeping in the dark, only you are awake like a dream, watching the speeding to and fro of vehicles, neon lights keep jumping in front of the windows. A sense of alienation of nothingness and emptiness hits you. At that moment, you only feel that your soul is separated from your body, and you are separated from this absurd world. The answer to who I am and what I am doing is not important, I just want to shake it. Sober but asleep in the middle, never wanting to get out of the car or reach the so-called destination.
There is no beautiful story in this movie, but it gives us a poetic feeling with that infinite sadness. In the adventure of this hand, the boy's life is run through the way of episodes. He lost his parents due to a car accident since childhood, and also lost his dream of being a pianist and an astronaut. Delivering pizzas that can't be delivered on time in the numb city every day, we all know that this is far from his original dream, and he has already compromised on life. At the moment when the car window broke and the world turned upside down, the audience understood that everything was impossible. The appearance of the heroine brought a ray of light to the boy's gloomy sky.
The plot where the two meet can be said to be the most colorful part of the movie. It's just two lonely hearts, separated by a 30-story high-rise building, without seeing each other face-to-face, only chatting through the wireless voice of the access control, such a somewhat dramatic setting itself is full of poetry. The conversation started because of the late delivery of the food seems to be plain and gratuitous, but it is infinitely warm. I can't hear the sound of the rain but feel the whistling of the wind. It turns out that we are all products that are out of tune with this world. We have already strayed from the world, but we still pretend that nothing happened.
The male protagonist's life seems to be improving little by little. He learned woodworking from the old master and pursued the girl in his own way. After the director gave us hope for life, he smashed it himself. The taste of tearing apart beautiful things is far stronger than the shock brought by ordinary tragedy. The girl learned of the boy's true intentions and the premise of deception, and left angrily. And when he finally realized what his father said about the joy of catching flies by "deviation", his right hand became involved in the rapidly spinning gears and was separated from his body. Seeing this, we still didn't give up, thinking that this hand would come back to reunite with the male protagonist.
And the meaning of this hand is even more profound. It is like the self that we have discarded as we continue to grow. We are more and more separated from the original self, and even abandon it. The hand is our favorite plush toy that we threw into the trash can in the same year. It is the blessing letter from a former close friend who lost it without caring when we moved. It is the phone call of the parents who hung up because of their busy work and study. We forget ourselves.
The male protagonist who has lost everything, at least still has the courage to make a leap, trying to break free from the shackles of fate. And what about us? Is it like the last jump of that hand using an umbrella as a parachute, being wrapped around by the passing vehicles and constantly spinning, lost in the stars gathered by the lights.
Why are you looking at me full of tears, have you lost your body too?
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