Gallery Director Joe Earle says much of the exhibit suggests a sense of human powerlessness and future disaster.

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The sense of powerlessness, the most profound sense of powerlessness, suggested already by the first episode where his mother almost takes back the life she gave him, is rooted in the family.

无能为力之感，极度的无能为力之感，在他母亲几乎,毁了他时就有过，这在他的家庭中深深地扎根。

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