equals and suppressed, uniformed and deviated, scientific and humanized....

The obvious theme of the film is, as my title shows, about the contrast between the ordered and machinized universe and uninhibitable desire for touch, for humanized contact. This is also what the psychoanalysis is exploring: the gap between the perceptive reality and psychic reality. The uniformed accomondation, the autonomas working and living enviroment, the artificial enviroment, all these creats the half-robotic, half-human beings whoes existence equals nothing. It is the suppressed desire for bodily and emitional connection that spills over the screen, the naked desire for bodily and sensual excitment that drives the film, which is more like the eros, compared with Thanatos, the death drive, the machinary impetous that drives on instead of the emotional blockage.

Another more central, I would say, theme of the films is implicated in the department that the main character is working in, called atoms. As the heroine writes "It is this vastness, inaccessibllity, symmetry, impermanance of the night sky that made it a natural topic for philsophers", It is also this vast, inaccessible, complementary, and short-lived love, mysterious and curing, that dirves the human to explore the meaning of life besides the ambulant living and ordered universe, this driving toward death that makes people to try again and again after each failure. What suppots the obvious theme is this undercurrent that acts like the unconscious desire of the characters in spite of the robotic existence.