"Blue Jelly Sea"
Batya is a waiter who specializes in wedding banquets. She is always groggy at work and her life is not satisfactory: her boyfriend leaves her. He left; his parents, who had divorced long ago, did not often contact him. One day, Batya met a lost little girl at the beach, a cute little girl wearing small swimming trunks, a swimming ring, a face full of freckles, and a pair of big eyes. The little girl stood in front of Batya, with a mysterious smile that confused the girl. Unable to find the little girl's parents, Batya had to take her to the police station. But the little girl with her big eyes open didn't say a word, and the police couldn't do anything. Because it was the weekend and the police station could not take her in, Batya had no choice but to take the little girl home.
Although this little guy is always silent, Batya, who has always been a bit withdrawn, is not bored. In order to find some suitable clothes for the little girl, she called her mother to ask for her childhood clothes. Her mother was the person in charge of a well-known charity event and often appeared on TV to promote fundraising for the homeless. Unfortunately, her mother’s Love didn't seem to care about herself, she told Batya, go find your father, if he still has it. The father, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, didn't even know what Batya did for a living. He was focused on his young girlfriend. Fortunately, he still had his daughter's childhood clothes. While searching, the little girl who went with her pulled out a photo album from somewhere. She flipped through the pages page by page and showed it to Batya. In fact, the album only contained one yellowed old photo - an ice cream shop selling ice cream on the beach. The old man, wearing beach pants and carrying an ice cream box across his body, was smiling at Batya, and his shirt was still fluttering in the sea breeze. This is a really weird photo.
Batya took the little girl to the wedding banquet restaurant where she worked. Naomi, who specializes in photographing wedding banquets, took a photo of the little girl, which angered the supervisor who had always disliked Naomi. The little girl... After mysteriously disappearing, Batya was also distraught, and both of them were fired. Batya went to the police station again to report the crime, but he needed photos to help. Batya found Naomi again, and Batya was extremely interested in the 35mm short film of the female photographer's childhood, as if she never had a childhood. The next day, Batya rushed to a date at the request of her mother, but suddenly found that the swimming ring that had been on the little girl rolled across the road. She chased it and was hit by a car. In the hospital, Batya, who was in a coma, felt her mother and father come and go in a hurry, and she felt like she had returned to her childhood. She was at the beach with her parents. She finally remembered that the old man selling ice cream was always beaten. The impatient mother sent her away; her parents quarreled and sent little Batya to the beach, wearing the same swimming ring she had worn when she was in the car accident. Could it be that she is the lost little girl?
Parallel with Batya's main line, there are many other sub-lines, including the newlyweds staying in the hotel, the female "poet" who is about to commit suicide in the same hotel, and the old woman who needs to be taken care of. , the old woman's actress daughter, the Filipino female caregiver, even the police and the female photographer, everyone seems to be looking for themselves.
There are several small details in the film worthy of attention. The silent little freckle is Batya herself. In the police station, the police asked the little girl how old she was, and Batya said 5 years old without thinking. Batya wanted to take off the little girl's swimming ring, and the little freckles screamed. The swimming ring was what Batya saw when she was in a coma. The one who arrived; the water pipe in Batya's house leaked, and she and the little girl drank water in the same way. And at the end of the film, Batya met the little girl at the bottom of the sea, and she finally met the smiling old ice cream man on the beach, which seemed to mean that she finally found herself.