I guess the message that Rich Flu’s ending was trying to convey is that no matter how hard we try, we are always going to be slaves to our materialistic desires. [Spoiler Alert] Laura Palmer, originally named Jake, traveled to the other end of the globe so she could protect her daughter, Anna, and especially herself, but it turned out, in the end, Laura’s journey didn’t teach her anything She remained obsessed with her watch and was willing to do anything to get it back. Maybe some people don’t really understand the meaning of selfless sacrifice. This holds true especially in Laura’s case, who saw everything in life as transactional.

In the second half of the film, I was really struggling to understand why director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia was so focused on Laura’s journey and why he was not giving us the answers we yearned for. For example,...