The movie “the lost thing” depict that a boy found an strange machine crab on the beach. he took the crab to home, but his family did not welcome that colossus, he try to find out where should the big crab belongs to and after struggle, he finally found a home to the crab and go back to home. From my perspective, the lost thing refer to the childhood.

The background of movie was gray and gloomy. The Director Shuan Tan tried to make the film very old faction, which give us an illusion that the film was produced many years ago. So many viewer’s childhood memory was awake. They recall what they did in childhood, rethink those naive behaviors which make them become abnormal. They may realize, just as the director wanted to convey by the movie, that those behaviors of abnormal and naive may be the most memorable and treasurable stuffs in adult’s lives, which had became unify by “mature thinking” and if we abandon that we will be deadly common.

Under bunch of relatives disagreement, the protagonist became one of the commoners at the end of film. That is a sad story. However, director convey that under social pressure the ending of normality seems to be irreversible.

Everybody born with a lost thing. the lost thing is strange and abnormal. Every one’s lost thing was unique. They kept the lost thing for many years. However, as they growing up, they gradually find it is strange to keep it. “ that stuff make people think you are naive” then they kept it at home, until their family complaint it and be angry of it. many friends abandon it. “you should also throw it to become mature” they throw it and become normal.