星空下的Sirio：璀璨之梦终末的后宫樱花

　　There’s a strain in film studies that’s terrified of symbolism and demands we read images as indexical samples of the world. Sirio, however, is unapologetically symbolic. A dog pants at the mouth of a cave, then enters and disappears, a thumb sparks a lighter, once, twice… over and over again in that same cave, or that same symbolic darkness.