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The final season part 1 of "Attack on Titan" was broadcast not long ago, and the original author Isayama Soru also completed the last chapter of the manga. The content of chapter 139 subverted the audience's three views, and a collapsed ending made the audience feel that His giant feelings for nearly 10 years were insulted, and a verbal abuse began to erupt, just like when "Game of Thrones" ended. It's just that "Game of Thrones" was murdered by the producer, while "Attack on Titan" was "murdered" by the original author himself.
Isayama has played with the audience more than once or twice. Like a character who played a lot in the previous episodes, he died without warning in the next episode. There is also the point of view that escapes. The first three seasons were told with the Survey Corps as the main character, and the fourth season suddenly jumped to Marais, which made people wonder if they were watching the same work. But after chasing for three seasons, the audience has gradually begun to enjoy the author's play, but the fourth season completely subverted the traditional narrative routine of Juvenile Manga, which undoubtedly far exceeded the audience's aesthetic expectations. Why can we accept Anakin Skywalker as the devil, but not Aaron Yeager as the devil?
From this point, it undoubtedly points to the aesthetic difference between the two forms of film and animation. No matter how surreal and spectacle the special effects of the film are, it is after all real actors and real shooting. No matter how realistic the light and shadow are, animation is a two-dimensional paper figure after all, and it only exists on paper. The above two points actually determine our aesthetic expectations for two different images. We watch movies and comics with us all the time subconsciously, so movies can be cruel, but anime cannot. The cruelty of the real world can appear in movies, but not Appearing in anime, even if there are many cruel plots in the process, the protagonist will definitely win a romantic, bloody and happy ending for the audience with his own strength. (Only for juvenile manga) We undoubtedly hope to see Alan as hot-blooded as always, and after a hot-blooded battle with the partners of the Survey Corps, they can obtain the freedom they dream of. The name, taking all the credit and fame, is high on the altar, but this kind of plot trend has been denied a few years ago, but the audience turned a blind eye. Because a large number of settings in "Attack on Titan" have strong innuendo, such as countries enclosed by high walls, from natural human rights to revolution to militarism, racial purification, and ideological brainwashing, etc. What Isayama is pursuing is not just the cool feeling brought by an ordinary juvenile manga, and the theme he wants to convey is no longer the slogan of "The hymn of human beings is the hymn of courage".
It is precisely because of its strong innuendo that the armbands that distinguish races have caused some people to sit in the right seats. This drama is like those giants, isolated by high walls. "Attack on Titan" has never praised any kind of spirit. Take the survey corps, which symbolizes freedom, as an example. From a certain perspective, it is also a group of demons who deny the value of individuals, deprive human rights, and sacrifice people for their own goals. The protagonists of justice also trample on other people's lands and slaughter women and children. The racist Marais also befriend the Eldians, who are seen as demons. Why can't Alan, who thought he was the savior, be the devil who destroys the world?
Isayama's portrayal of the rabble and his portrayal of those in power at the top has never been defined in a way, and his characters are not all single-character characters in traditional juvenile manga. The starting point of actions made by each character in the story is never whether he is a good or a villain. Amin drives him to face the super giant because he wants to see the sea. And Allen wanted to be free, so he did not hesitate to slaughter anyone who stood in his way. As Kenny said, everyone is a slave to their own beliefs.
At the same time, the development of the plot is not a story of blindly defeating giants and appearing stronger giants to break through the level, interspersed with political thrillers, power struggles, mass revolutions, the state's blockade of the truth, espionage wars and other narrative bridges . The above and so on are actually the only way for a country to develop in human history, and there are also typical figures in the development of a country, such as the family that secretly controls the lifeline of the country, the puppet king who was slapped up, the president who was inexplicably blown into two halves... ...The giants are just a clever setting. Isayama Chuang just changed the inhuman historical slices and weapons into a packaging form, just to let the audience know that giants are people, giants are products of human race purification, giants After being his comrade-in-arms and the giant being the Pandora's Box of human beings, the nothingness in his heart points to the nothingness of the protagonist's destiny and the nothingness of the history of the real world.
There may indeed be a reason for Isayama to deceive us, but looking at "Attack on Titan" with the aesthetic expectations of traditional juvenile manga is ultimately a wrong thing, because it is too realistic, it has been playing with human hope, Playing with the so-called friendship and faith, but looking at the history of human wars, which history is not like "Attack on Titan"? This realistic cruelty is also the reason why it attracts abuse. From Ultraman, Godzilla to Eva and Gundam, to "Attack on Titan", the Japanese people's discussion of giants is breaking through the limitations at all times, making people scream again and again. So, we might as well, like Alvin, give up our insignificant empathy for teenagers and look at Attack on Titan again, which still deserves the title of the pinnacle of anime 10 years later.
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