Serial Experiments Lain Comments

  • Jaida 2022-03-26 09:01:15

    This animation gives me an unparalleled feeling. I watched it many years ago. It is depressing, but it is very wonderful. It is an indescribable experience. The world is black, the sky is blood red, and in my dreams, it seems that the little girl named Lain is walking towards me again and again. .and as if I was her...who am I, who are my parents, who are my siblings, who am I...where do I come from, what kind of world do I live in, is it all...

  • Shana 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    It feels that the popularity of the Internet in the mid-to-late 1990s inspired a huge wave of creative creations involving the separation of human bodies and wills. The world was cut off by new inventions and depersonalized. The opposite of each utopia has several dystopias (this work Light and shadows on ordinary streets in China), and many of the original imaginations about the media at that time are now gradually coming true. The more I think about it, the more I feel that the blood-red...

  • Rebekah 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    The most obscure and depressing anime I've ever...

  • Lea 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    The work of 1998, this kind of philosophical discussion on self-existence and collective unconsciousness is really advanced. The jumping plot, the blurry and psychedelic editing, the radio interference sound under the blue screen, the switching of the mirrors, and the collective sense of oppression are gorgeous and explosive. But in terms of the plot, this sense of alienation beyond the times is really...

  • Aida 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    Finally finished it after ten years. Such experimental and colorful animations are probably going to sell out in this fast-food era. The narrative technique of stream of consciousness and the sub-mirror of expressionism use a Frankenstein-style story to explore the existence of human beings and the meaning of information transmission, denying structuralism and metaphysics, and affirming language as a weapon evolved by human beings meaning. Humans are by no means mechanical, and memory is not...

  • Dasia 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    Lingyin is almost sacred if we understand the ultimate goal of Buddhist teachings as the generation of a non-human/superhuman consciousness, and the technological existence of the Internet Protocol makes possible the "self-exploration" of the Rong format, the smooth machine , behind the blue electronic screen flickering with wires is the gods and the process of their unity with the self. The gods, or superman, are the opposite of dialectics, savagely generated in a rhizome-like manner. After...

  • Eula 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    It has a certain effect on the small round face. Jin Min's "The House of Weima" was also released in Japan in 1998. In the same year, there were also films such as "The City of Moving Souls", including the same period of the 1999 college entrance examination composition proposition and "The Thirteenth Floor", "The Matrix" and other works ...why there are so many works about memory and the discussion of reality and illusion appear in the same period, one can't help but think that it is possible...

  • Shanna 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    Baudrillard's simulacrum theory should be used. The simulacrum theory believes that the simulacra and reality "implode" in postmodern society. The "implosion" eliminates the boundary between the simulacrum and the reality, and the simulacrum is more "real" than reality, thus forming "hyperreal". "Hyperreality" replaces the reality that shapes the essence of the subject's self. The Yingri Zhengmei in the story is the one who tries to start the "imploding". He yearned for simulacrum, believing...

  • Theo 2022-03-25 09:01:23

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  • Claudie 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    A million stars are...

Extended Reading
  • Leora 2022-03-25 08:01:01

    A Stream of Consciousness Experiment Animation That Inspired Me

    "Lin" is an original animation in the project of serial experiments lain. The first time I saw this work was a few years ago, but because of its stream-of-consciousness narrative, it was a bit difficult to understand in terms of plot, and even more so in terms of thinking. After I combined some...

  • Ryley 2022-03-25 08:01:01

    where is Self?

    Before understanding Lingyin's plot, we must first make some explanations and assumptions about the world around Lingyin, and then we can explain the ins and outs of it in depth.
                             Three Worlds, Two Organizations, and One Opposite
    There are actually three worlds in the play:...

Serial Experiments Lain quotes

  • Lain Iwakura: No matter where you go, everyone's connected.

  • Chisa Yomoda: There was no reason for me to stay in the real world any longer. In the real world, it didn't matter if I was there or not. When I realized that, I was no longer afraid of losing my body.