Dec 9, 2022
Artistically beautiful, I'll certainly watch it again, more like an artwork.
I read that even the author of this said he didn't know the meaning of the movie, so I think it's really open, and I really like this aspect of making you think and reflect. But I would agree that the main meaning here is the process of breaking your beliefs and constructing new ones.
I liked to imagine the following. The girl believed in something and lived inside this belief, as if in a dream (the dream of the bird). Due to some reason, this belief started crumbling (the initiation of the flood), and as
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a result, the girl's mind divided into a questioning part (the man) and a part that blindly clings to its old beliefs and seeks refugee in the ark (the egg, the technological ark). In this ark, she becomes lost and loses the notion of time or what exists or not, what is real or not (a crisis). Another metaphor for being imprisoned in an illusion are the fishermen, who endlessly try to catch fish that is not there, and what is a kind of church with a fish vitral (here a clearer reference to the belief system being religion). The girl is afraid of the fishermen at first, but seems to like the fish vitral, probably because she is in a similar state. Throughout the movie, her two parts confront each other, as represented by the interactions between her and the men. In the end, the rational part decides to crush the egg. This completes the flood process and shocks the girl, making her old self drown, giving birth to her new self, a transformation. However, as one cannot leave without something to believe, she produces more eggs, which are new beliefs, but transformed, and the ark finally takes off, moving forward. The old self of the girl becomes yet another sculpture in the ark exterior, meaning that it is now in the past but still makes a part of what she is today.
This is certainly personal and I doubt that the authors thought of that or other possible concrete interpretations while making the movie, but it's interesting trying to interpret it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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