The turbulent Shanghai beach not only nurtures infinite possibilities, but also hides many dangers. It not only symbolizes the overall depressive atmosphere of that era and the haze of war, but also metaphors the unspeakable secret emotions in the hearts of Gu Qingyuan and Shen Yuming. The layers are full of heaviness. The sense of oppression, the love that accumulates and rolls in the hearts of the two people like dark clouds, is ultimately tightly bound by the torrent of the times, the gap in status and the shackles of ethics, and is never able to pour out heartily. It accurately captures the strong dramatic tension of anxiety, longing but having to endure and restrain.
