It tells about existence, about the possible future, about the perfect ideal type, but it rarely talks about human beings, about love, and about romance. Humans and machines exist coldly, with cold rays of light in their eyes. They seem to be omniscient and omnipotent gods or puppets that are empty inside, without any realistic firework smell, and no experience of life - except for Bart's pet, copy Self-directed pet Basset. Therefore, most eyes can only be attracted by its superficial splendor, or to excerpt the trivial but not necessarily meaningful quotations, or to marvel at the delicacy of the eastern style with the decadence of the end, or to sigh the relationship between Bart and Suzi. Unrequited affection. People love themselves, as long as most human beings have incurable introspection, men want to be included in the world when they see the world, women shed their tears in other people's stories, and look at the magnificent scenery, but the creations are still amazing. To sigh that you can't get a person. Standing outside the definition of "human" to observe and examine human beings is a refined thing, but how can people in the world avoid the commonplace, go to superhumans, or go out and imagine from the dolls that have been created?
Fortunately, this is an animation, and even if I participated in Cannes, it is still an animation. In the final analysis, Mamoru Oshii is only suitable for animation, and his live-action film is somewhat appalling.
If the 1995 version of Gong 1 talked about the doubts of the cyborgized people about themselves, the 2004 version of Gong 2 was the cry of the puppets and the questioning of existence itself. In attack 1, when making cyborg, he sang "Bad", while in attack 2, when making dolls, the singer was more flashy and mournful "Puppet Haruka". Although cyborg will be criticized, it is recognized as a human with a brain and a ghost. If the body part is damaged, it can be replaced and maintained; while the doll is just a toy that is pulled by wires. Waiting to rot, can't even call for help. At the beginning of the story, the puppet destroyed by Bart whispered "help", which was the cry for help and struggle of the little girl who was relying on the ghost who didn't want to become a puppet, and the puppet itself was bombed by seven people because it killed the master. Difficult to repair. In the maintenance room, the older female researcher used electronic amplification equipment to repeat the cry to a disturbing level, and the camera swept across the various dolls on display, as if they were crying. After dealing with the crisis, Motoko took the puppet's mouth and sighed: I am sad for the blood of birds, not the blood of fish. Help, the たすけて read in the film is just four syllables. Is it the last struggle after being pulled by the thread of fate?
Most of the time, people will feel strong loneliness and loneliness, so domesticating pets and creating dolls to accompany them are essentially ignorant and easy to control things. The former treats people as gods, but unfortunately all living things escape But aging and death, and the latter is more like a copy of man himself, with a similar but more perfect shape, but not growing, and not dying. But who will love a doll for a lifetime, and ultimately cannot escape the fate of being abandoned by a master who loves the new and hates the old. This inanimate feature of neither life nor death becomes a burden. There is a word in the island country called "Hundred Ghosts Night Walk", which says that a thing with a hundred years of age will have a soul. Even for people, being abandoned is a painful thing. I can't imagine what it would be like to give birth to a soul from what I discarded from childhood to adulthood.
So compared to Togusa, Bart and Suzi can understand those dolls more easily, because they are cyborgs that have been transformed by 90%, which can prove that they are human, only ghosts and brains are left, and they talked about in Attack 1 Yes, with a piece of ghost program, itself can be regarded as a new form of life. Similarly, can those puppets with ghosts be defined as life existence? If man is a sophisticated machine + soul, can the counter-proposition of a sophisticated machine with a soul be counted as a man?
The overall structure of Attack 2 and Attack 1 in 1995 is very similar. They both start fighting, and then the strange music sings in a shallow way. The screen plays to create a human figure while subtitles are played, and then there is an investigation. The strange music in the middle is played again. transformed street scene. More philosophical and exciting battles followed, before returning to peace. Also, similar to the first film, the interruption of the film was inserted into the puppet ballad ─ Shinsekai Shenshu ひて, gorgeous to saturated graphics and bewitching ballads. The flashy parade is like a gorgeous mask covering up the indifference of the essence, the idols of gods and Buddhas are worshipped by thousands of people, and the whole picture is as beautiful as the end of the day. Gods and Buddhas were bowed down, and discarded puppets were burned. Why did God give Moses the second commandment not to bow down to idols? Idols are man-made, no matter how perfect and delicate they are, they will eventually be destroyed and forgotten. How can such an omniscient and almighty God be confined to a small idol? There is also a sentence in the Tao Te Ching: Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and all things are dogs. The world is impermanent, the prosperous will decline, and people have been constantly striving to create perfection, wanting to surpass the nature that nurtured themselves, and fantasizing about equipping life with more perfect hardware. These have become the source of nightmares.
After Bart and Togusa reached the desolate area where Locus Solus was located, especially after they went to the old perverted Jin's castle, the whole picture was even more beautiful and dreamy. Too bad it's all fictional. Sooner or later, by stimulating the optic nerve, one can give people an unparalleled real experience, whether in space or time, so what is the so-called real existence? On this point, Oshii Shoujing said better than me: "On the surface, it is a question of whether it is alive or not; on the contrary, it is a question of whether things without life are alive. Why do dolls have to ask? It is disturbing because the doll is the embryonic form of human beings, that is, human beings themselves. The fear of whether human beings are reduced to simple institutions and substances is the fear of whether human beings are originally nothingness. ... The science that attempts to explain the phenomenon of life also contributes to the formation of this fear. Naturally calculable, this belief leads to the conclusion that human beings can also be reduced to mere mechanical parts." Because of its own imperfection, whether it is the external expression brought by genes, or the pure cognitive ability. Humans crave perfection, and complete perfection can only be manifested in an omniscient and almighty god or a completely unconscious puppet/idol, and perhaps an animal—the so-called Shelley's lark. Humans have achieved their present achievements because of their cognition. Like diligent coral polyps, they have built complex and beautiful towers on the flat ground. Because in the process of knowing the world and changing the world, I have tasted too much happiness, resulting in a strong self-consciousness, imposing self-will and everything, and being self-motivated everywhere - it is not a good thing. And that kind of unconscious joy, seeing all things in the world flowing through the eyes, appreciating their magic and beauty, but having no distractions, ruthless heart, no desire or desire, is absolutely unattainable. Jin's original words were: "As the descendant of those who covet the fruit of 'knowledge', it is more difficult to do than to become a god."
In the process of making the puppet at the beginning, from what looks like a fertilized egg to constantly pulling the strings together, the last step is to open the eyes. As the saying goes, the eyes are the windows to the soul. All human emotions, happiness, sadness, anger, happiness, and happiness will be reflected in the eyes. Whether it is China or foreign countries, they believe that once they have eyes, they have souls, so they dare not put the finishing touches. In the same way, people who are ashamed in their hearts dare not even look others in the eye. All the dolls in the film, including the incomplete transmission, or the prosthetic eye of the female researcher, and the glass bead eyes of the doll that Togusa gave to her daughter are very beautiful and sparkling, but there is no emotion or soul in them. In it, only the eyes of the observer can be projected, mirror-like reflecting everything that exists. People are in awe of gods and Buddhas, and sometimes they are afraid of puppets, just because there is nothing in them, reflecting the viewer's own heart - facing oneself is often more frightening than facing others, because it is easy to deceive people, Lie to yourself... just like the subtitle - innocence, things without souls are innocent.
In Gong 1, there is a sentence in the whisper of Motoko listening to the ghost: Through the realm of nothingness, we will eventually look at each other. When people look in the mirror, they are either admiring themselves, or peeping into the world that they dare not look directly at, but there is a cloud in the physics book, the mirror is like a virtual image, and if you are addicted to the illusion, you will end up in the devil. Feeding a doll as his own is a lunatic (like the mother who nurses the doll in Mad City). We keep pets, play dolls, play all kinds of chess, and play virtual games. In the final analysis, it is an incomplete simulation of the world, simulating survival, reproduction, and death. If several people hold mirrors, there will be demons. Those who are not according to the devil, make it. And the puppets are finally a mirror that reflects people. People are nostalgic for their perfection and ignorance, but they are killed by the crazy puppets. Is it the puppets or the human beings themselves?
Attack 2 has the most criticized part - dropping the book bag. On the one hand, this is the performance of the director's arrogance. All kinds of philosophical and scientific illusions are covered. Similarly, people will be laughed at for not being original and pulling a bunch of quotes. These quotations are sometimes very appropriate, but sometimes they are inconsistent. For example, Togusa refers to the Bible and Psalms inexplicably. It is not because the people in it are all knowledgeable and well-versed in both China and the West, but because their electronic brains are connected There is an infinitely huge database. As long as you want to call these data, the electronic brain will help you to retrieve the data stream on the network based on a special algorithm. You only need to get it at your fingertips, and you don’t need to read and understand every book. It’s so convenient and terrible. . The tower of knowledge melts into the sea of information and becomes a chaotic flow of information. Similarly, virtual experience can also be integrated into these signals of 0 and 1, making people lost in the cold machine, unable to distinguish where reality is. and warm home. Bart seems to have found Grandpa Deng's famous words in the database and changed some: "There is no difference between recall and memory, and no matter which one is, the fact is the only criterion for testing the truth." Finally, Togusa returned to his family, Bajidu jumped back into Bart's arms, the eyes of the doll were terrifyingly cold, but the people and things in his arms still exuded love and warmth, I hope these will never be simulated.
Let’s talk about something off topic: the
climax part of the battle between Motoko and Bart is very hot, they are really the best companions, Bart himself said: guardian angel. But as for affection, I am afraid that it is more about mutual understanding and mutual pity than love. After all, the latter is based on human reproduction needs. After all, the latter has evolved and sublimated. Cyborg has few human characteristics. Female body, but does not have the function of reproduction. Leaving aside the prime, just the more human Bart, do you think he can fuck?
Bart and Togusa each had an unfortunate experience of hacking their electronic brains by hackers, and the solution was to use special equipment on the electronic brains to stop them like puppets. Although the puppets have advanced to wireless automatic, their movements But it still smells like the limbs are being pulled by the thread. The story itself is really simple, and the ending can be considered happy. Companies that do illegal business will be punished and kidnapped children will be rescued. How the story is told is irrelevant to Oshii Mori's reasoning. He has always been pessimistic and gloomy, telling everyone the ultimate Fate is no better than a puppet, just like this poem.
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