The ruins are rebuilt, but the ruins in Keren's heart cannot be erased overnight. With no other choice, Sumita could only choose to self-destruct to clear the ruins in his heart. And the only thing he thought of to make his sacrifice worthwhile was to hold a few bastards who should have died a long time ago when it exploded.
As for the hope that appears at the end, it's a bit of an absolute. Instead of killing himself after destroying everything, Chazawa saves him and gives him a chance to re-establish order. But, who will save Chazawa? What does it mean to be painted red and decorated with colored light bulbs on a gallows? If you don't fight, you will die? The director will never tell you anyway. Even Sonoko Wen, who was keen on darkness and violence, couldn't bear to stab a few more knives on the devastated corpse.
It has to be said that Yuan Ziwen turned cruelty into absurdity, and the exaggerated expression made the film less hypocritical. From the overall point of view, the tone of the film is still black. Outside the ruins after the disaster is a great fear of nuclear radiation, and a Nazi flag foreshadows everything. We know everything, but we don't know ourselves—rebuilding after a disaster is self-rebuilding, and the truth of the process is fraught with obstacles and built on great sacrifice.
(ps is much better than playing a warm-hearted card after a disaster in a certain country, covering up all the truth and blinding the eyes of the masses. What we need is to confirm ourselves and think about it rationally, not to "support the correctness of XXX")
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