Our efforts are unattainable

Liana 2022-04-20 09:01:57

Finally finished watching this famous animation.

At the beginning of the story, a big bomb was dropped. For the sake of their dead mother, the two children did not hesitate to use the forbidden book in the alchemist world-human body forging. The result was naturally a tragedy. One of the two brothers lost their body and turned into a walking armor, the other lost a leg and a hand, and then a monster in the shape of a human was created. After that, the two embarked on a long journey of error correction.

Written here, I reviewed the plot in my heart, and found that it cannot be summed up in a simple way with routines, which is worthy of the name of the masterpiece. (So ​​I'll give up the brief plot...)

In the world of alchemists, the author outlines human beings, synthetic beasts, and even rougher soul sustenance bodies, and then throws out such grand and profound propositions as their self-recognition and emotional sustenance for people to discuss. Considering the age of the work, it is not advisable to Not to mention it is really socially meaningful.

Of course it's also heavy.

Even if the protagonist in the text is only a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old child.

But how does the world treat people differently based on whether you are a child or not?

Edward and Al always believed that the Sage's Stone could help them recover, but after learning that the Sage's Stone was made from a large amount of human life, they became angry and confused and even wanted to give up.

Finally, I mustered up the courage to go on, but I found that I had been used all the time, and I had become an accomplice in making the Sage's Stone.

So the meaning of error correction has risen to a new level, and it is also a topic that has been avoided in the plot for a long time - the humanoid monster that the brothers made at a painful price and those artificial humans with the same attributes.

People are stupid, and human nature is mostly similar.

Therefore, in every era and everywhere, there are delusions of resurrection from the dead (and even delusions of immortality, which will be later).

Artificial people, it's not just their name that's awkward, it's their self-positioning.

It has a human form, speaks human words, is smart, strong, or beautiful, and can even have various special abilities that ordinary people do not have.

But they are not people.

Yes, they have all kinds of advantages that we ordinary people might envy.

Only they are not human.

The author does not have a stereotyped Virgin, and strives to preach that all things are equal and the world is one.

They are not human beings, they were created in violation of the rules of the alchemy world, and there is no other way but to kill or seal them.

Because they have no human feelings.

And once they begin to awaken their feelings as human beings for various reasons, and then understand the tragic nature of their own existence, they have no choice but to die.

But when the feelings are not awakened, the goal of most human beings is just to become human.

It's a paradox that goes on and on.

The existence of this paradox is still based on the Sage's Stone.

How did such a bug come about?

So Dante and Hohenheim came out, and the third level also came out. This is no longer the fight between the two brothers and the androids. They may represent the mistakes and corrections of the human evolutionary process.

eternal life.

The sacred is unwilling to believe that its price is the life of a city or a famous family to refine the stone of the sage.

The long time journey made Hohenheim tired, and the warmth of the family made him even more afraid of the ugliness he concealed. All he hoped was to die of old age and burial with her.

However it is not available.

Ironic.

The world behind the last door of the story is pointed out as the real human world. The superficial reason may be to explain the energy source of alchemy. I think it is the author's concern about the human world.

In the world of alchemists, Edward exchanged his younger brother at the expense of himself. In the world of human beings, he hoped that technology would open the door again and return to his alchemy world.

So what is the difference between alchemy and our technology?

What's the difference between what they're going through and what we're going to face?

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Fullmetal Alchemist quotes

  • [after blowing open wall of Lab 5]

    Scar: Full Metal Alchemist! Take your brother and get out of here!

    Edward Elric: I don't need your help!

    Scar: Maybe not, but your younger brother needs you.

    Edward Elric: Let's go!

  • Number 48, Slicer: Older Broher: No, you don't understand. You must destroy us.

    Slicer: Young Brother: He's right. You must destroy us. There is nothing for the defeated but death that is our rule.

    Edward Elric: I'm not killing anyone. That's not what I do.

    Number 48, Slicer: Older Broher: You're too kind with your words. Calling us anyone, not anything. As if we could still be called human in this twisted state. I didn't say kill, I said destroy. Destroy these thing's we've become.

    Edward Elric: To do that, I'd have to admit you weren't human. And for me to do that, I'd have to admit the same of my brother and I can't do that.

    Number 48, Slicer: Older Broher: He's your brother.