Apart from the tense and exciting fights and the portrayal of the protagonist Shinichi's inner unease, Parasitic Beast actually discusses more about human nature, oh no, thinking about "human" itself.
"Who am I, and where will my future go?" This is a question that every creature with thinking ability will consider, humans are no exception, and parasitic beasts are no exception. For a creature whose intelligence and physical strength are above human beings, they are given more rights to dominate everything by themselves: relying on their own racial advantages to feed themselves with humans, arbitrarily occupy human brains, disguise wanton among humans To deceive them... Maybe from a human point of view, the appearance of "abnormal" parasitic beasts is intolerable, and Shinichi thought so at the beginning, especially after his mother was killed by parasitic beasts ...
but Shinichi's change started with Tamura Reiko's death. When he thought that all parasitic beasts were emotionless and would kill innocent people indiscriminately for their own survival, Tamura Reiko's "abnormal" performance, that is, the brilliance of maternal love, also deeply touched Shinichi. Indeed, the most valuable thing about human beings is that they are different from other species in their emotional abilities. They will sacrifice their own interests to protect others, even if they sacrifice their lives. This is incredible in the eyes of other creatures, including parasitic beasts. of.
It is also incredible for parasitic beasts that human beings are also the only terrifying species on earth that will keep plundering to satisfy their selfish desires. If the reason why parasitic beasts plunder human life is to keep themselves alive, then the reason why human beings plunder other people's life is to satisfy their own interests, not their physical needs; they greedily steal the earth's resources and hypocritically hold high the protection of the earth and the environment This is also a point that the parasitic beast cannot understand. After all, the earth has lived well for hundreds of billions of years without human beings?
In addition, the parasitic beast brought me to think about what should be the attitude of human beings towards other species? Like the police officer in the play, in order to eradicate parasitic beasts, he would sacrifice more human lives? From this point of view, Tamura Reiko created the "omnipotent" Goto. This is Reiko's prediction of what may happen in the future. She has long understood that if humans hunt and kill parasitic beasts recklessly, there are only two choices for parasitic beasts: One is the possibility of becoming a more powerful species and regaining its dominance over humans (but due to the numerical superiority of humans, it will lose sooner or later); the second is to fully integrate into humans and become a part of it. Gotou's death proves that the second way is the best way to survive for parasitic beasts.
So what about from a human point of view?
The parasitic beast tells us that we must never try to understand the thoughts of other creatures. Any idea is just the wishful thinking of human beings. "Maybe it is just lonely." , to discuss the level of human nature. Before that, I was exposed to more books and movies about the dark part of human nature, such as "Lord of the Flies" where the innocent child becomes a terrible executioner because of selfish desires; "One Hundred Years" Ten Years of Personality" describes the dark period of the Cultural Revolution, from ordinary people to the children of high-ranking officials, the ignorance, ignorance, and cruelty of human nature are vividly portrayed during that period; A series of absurd stories made by my perverted voyeurism and curiosity... All kinds of such contacts with the dark side of human nature, which made me understand a truth: to understand human nature more deeply, but thousands of Don't try to test human nature. Human nature itself is mysterious and unknown, but I prefer to believe that, as the most intelligent species on earth, human nature also has a good side. Dedication is so beautiful and great, and this is also the difference between human beings and other creatures, because human beings are a species with emotions, and emotions are the most difficult to understand compared to logic. things, which is why human nature is so attractive to me to investigate.
Hopefully, my worries and my optimism are not unreasonable.
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