pink clues too obvious

Considering this film was made in the age of computers and the protagonist had made his fortune in computers, why are we all having sooooo much difficult in realising the (fairly obvious) significance of an old manual typewriter, cast out and abandoned on a neglected lawn, that ALSO happens to be pink and has red typing ribbon attached to?

Tilda Swinton was the mother - end of. She was also the angriest of all the women, like so angry at bringing up a child by herself for almost 20 years, with no money, and no chance of her precious child EVER feeling whole, because his father 'didn't really love her', so they parted - boo hoo.

Then, if that wasn't enough, the boy has a pink ribbon attached to his ruck sack that was put there by, wait for it..."his mother" at the start of his journey.

The title 'Broken Flowers' is also another (fairly big) clue, surely? Let's see, he dutifully takes bunches of pink flowers to all of the women in turn, but at one particular location, he doesn't even bother to buy them and picks them from the roadside, then 'accidentally' sits on the flowers, thereby breaking them perhaps? oh and that's because his bruised beaten-up body has been slung on them before being dumped, along with his car, in an empty field.

The fact that he had a son with the woman he probably least would have liked to have procreated with, because of her down-at-heel circumstances and alternative life-style, living in a post-hippy-era biker commune.

She then happens to bring up a wadyano really nice boy, who is not a victim of his circumstances and has an independent mind "I like philosophy" and is a crushingly innocent party to the chaotic mess that adults create with their misspent youth.

Struck by what a nice young man 'his son' is and um, was I mistaken in realising the accuracy of their spontaneous non-verbal communication, that further exemplifies their 'connection', of sorts? "You look hungry". Thinks he ran away, but finds him round the corner with two crates and a makeshift table waiting for 'a chat'.

Furthermore, they had the same stripy track suit style on, for crying out loud - how can people honestly think it was all Sherri's doing.

Pink was representative of a type of person that he gravitated towards his entire life, aka foolhardy romantic type.