This interpretation aligns with existential psychology. To ask “who am I?” is already to initiate an escape from a fixed answer. The film posits that a stable self is a comforting illusion; reality is a perpetual motion of becoming. The protagonist’s exhaustion is not from physical labor but from the Sisyphean task of maintaining a coherent identity.
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