sentences:  When the protagonist reaches his grave, a black screen evokes his symbolic death, but the finality of this ending is undermined by the video sequences that follow, which show the actor playing Mr. Badiei lighting a cigarette and the film crew resting.Again, life goes on, but in an off-screen elsewhere.Symbols of death proliferate throughout "The Wind Will Carry Us" with scenes set in a graveyard, the imminence of the old woman's passing, and the ancestors that the character of Farzad mentions in an early scene.