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First of all, in my opinion, this animation is a masterpiece of the century that integrates love, family, friendship, human nature, politics, good and evil, family, war, life, life, world outlook, values, and outlook on life. In just 139 words It is not easy to embody so many things, and more importantly, its meaning is more profound than the update of some thousands of words
Some people say that the film is as important to Japan as "Farewell My Concubine" is to China, and "The Shawshank Redemption" is to the United States. I fully agree with this.
In my opinion, the most successful thing about "Attack on Titan" is that its understanding of human nature has reached an unprecedented level. All the people in the play are flesh and blood. The premise of a masterpiece of human nature to succeed is to tell people that this world is not It's either black or white. In this world, there are not only good people but also bad people. Sometimes good people are not necessarily good people, and bad people are not necessarily really bad. reason? No, you can survive if you eat it, but you may starve to death if you don’t eat it, everyone has different opinions. Some of the people who live in the wall in Attack on Titan choose to live in the wall all their lives, living a good or bad life. Most of the survey soldiers who looked at the outside world didn’t have a good ending; the royal family inside the wall felt that it was the greatest protection for the people to never let those inside the wall go out, but they didn’t know until the moment when the giant broke through the city wall. If you don’t have ambition, people in this world have no ambition. If you don’t hurt others, it doesn’t mean that others won’t hurt you. There’s too much proof here from the world; Reiner of Marais, Annie and others once destroyed the wall. The lives of one third of the people in China are unforgivable, but everything they do is for their own country and their families, and is it correct to kill thousands of people for one person? This is again the contradiction between human nature and society, just like a social survey done by foreigners: for the life of your own son, are you willing to destroy the lives of 10,000 people you have never met? Eighty percent of people choose to be willing, this is human nature
Since the emergence of human civilization, in order to explore the world, in order to find the truth of the world, countless people have come one after another, and countless people have sacrificed their lives. The difference is that the death of some people proves something, while the death of some people Without proving anything, they sacrificed their lives in the form of cannon fodder, such as the investigation team in "Attack on Titan",
The deaths of countless of them did not contribute anything to the insiders' search for the truth of the world, but are their deaths really meaningless? In the third season, Captain Erwin made a concluding exposition at the end of his life:
"It's all meaningless. No matter what dreams and hopes you have, no matter how happy you are, it's no different from being smashed by a rock. The end is death. So is life meaningless? Or, is it ours? Is birth meaningless? So are those who died? Are those soldiers who died meaningless? No! No! The meaning of those soldiers will be given by us! Those brave dead, those sad dead... we I think so because we are living! We will die here! Entrusting meaning to the next living is the only way to fight this cruel world! Soldiers, get angry! Soldiers, roar Soldiers, fight!"
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- Erwin Smith
This is a transition from life to death to life to death. All the meanings of soldiers dying to explore the truth of the world, defend or invade the war are reflected here. In the war, there is a special team formed temporarily called the death squad. What is the death squad? of? It is to die, but is it certain that you will win the battle if you die? No, it is very likely that you will fail if you die, so is it meaningless to die? No, because your death makes the odds possible for the victory of the battle, that's what it's all about
Some people say that "Attack on Titan" is a metaphor for launching a war for the island country, which is the reason for the fascists. Especially in the end, the protagonist Allen launched the Earth Scream to destroy the world. Only an ordinary person with strong action can become the protagonist because his father gave him the ability that he is no longer ordinary. The world needs a protagonist, there is always someone who wants to be the protagonist, why can't it be him? His initial dream was very simple, just to see the face of the world, to see those beautiful sights that can only be found in books, this is normal,
So he went to build a hot air balloon and became a survey soldier, but fate guided him step by step to choose the life and death of the entire nation-state world. When he saw the future endings through the attacking giant, it was he who launched the real cry. The reason is based on the development process of the world at that time, and the hatred of the Ai people in the world has reached its peak after the speech in the shelter. Destroy all the Ai people and kill this group of demons. If Pa Dao does not take the initiative to fight, struggling to the death or delusional peace talks on the island, there are only two endings waiting for Pa Dao, one is to perish and the other is to become slaves, there are people here. I will ask again, why can't we launch a small-scale Earthquake that is enough to shock the world, and then make time for the development of Pa Island through the combination of vertical and horizontal? About such a future Allen must have seen in the future
, Allen knew that he was about to die, and the future of the entire Pa Island was basically in the hands of Jinju's descendants. When Jinju's generation changed, what kind of world environment and national environment would they face? In the struggle of the system, can the giants of contemporary attack stand up? I guess Allen must have seen the scene where a certain generation of attacking giants was assassinated by an enemy country in an instant, and then the island of Papa was destroyed, because the absence of the giant means that the island of Papa is gone, and all the giants have become decorations, so Allen only He wants to clear all obstacles for Pa Dao while he is alive. If he does not pass on this responsibility, he will destroy himself in the end. After all, his dream from beginning to end is to kill all giants and make the world no longer threatened by giants. When there is only Pa Island left in the world, giants have no meaning to exist anymore. To end this pain and nightmare, Allen just made a choice that he thought was the most correct, just as the soldier said to Allen back then:
Choose! Do you believe in yourself, or in me and the Survey Corps organization these people belong to? I can't possibly know the answer, it's always been that way. Whether you believe in your own strength or in the choices made by your trusted accomplices, the corresponding consequences are impossible for anyone to foresee. So, in short, try your best to... choose a way that leaves no regrets! "
Let’s go back to reality. Under the military system, the island countries just wanted to invade, expand their territory, and compete for resources. They already have the strength to protect themselves, and they don’t need to destroy the world to protect the country. Their position is completely different from that of Pa Island. Lun destroyed the world in order to be forced to protect it, and the island country was in order to occupy it, just like one person kills for the sake of self-defense, and the other kills for money. After the protagonist is finished, let's go back to the four-member group of supporting characters Reiner and Annie, who live in a country that is brainwashed by military ideology.
, their world outlook, outlook on life and values are completely dominated by the thoughts of the country. The country has taught them that they are descendants of demons. They are treated unfairly or humiliated because they want to atone for their ancestors and to prove their kind Ai people. Going to destroy the demon Ai people of Ai Island,
The ideas that have been passed down from the fathers to the fathers have become more ingrained in their generation. They have to prove that they are kind Ai people who love Malai (Xiao K), and more importantly, the state completely forbids them to seek the truth (Marisha and The younger sister will be severely punished just by looking at the airship) In the environment where speech is not free and thoughts are imprisoned, if you want to live a good life, you must devote yourself to the country. Only by becoming a soldier can your family become a special Ai people, enjoy The living treatment is similar to that of the normal Marais, so Reina wants to live with her father and mother, and Anni becomes a warrior for her father's expectations, and embarks on the road of destroying the Pha Dao demons. After they successfully infiltrated the island, they realized that the people on the island were not demons, but the Ai people of the same clan as themselves, and they were deeply harmed by giants. It was difficult for them to protect themselves, and even more so. Not to mention the invasion of Marai, plus they gained real friendship and warmth in Pa Island, so Reiner began to doubt whether Marai's ideas instilled in himself were correct, and that he had indirectly killed so many Pa Islanders. , is it correct to kill Marco
, began to split personalities, that's why I told Alan on the city wall that I am an armored giant, come home with us, that's why I wanted to commit suicide after returning to Marais,
But when I think of my mother, I didn't have the courage to think of my companions, and lived in torment, while Ani was very simple, just simply wanted to complete the task and go home to meet his father who said he loved him at the last moment of parting. They are all machines of the state. They are all tragic figures of the times. They have flesh and blood, but they have no choice under the system. To do things according to the will of the country is their only choice, and Malee clearly knows the truth of the island, why do they still rest assured that they go to their real homeland , because each of them has relatives in Marai, and they are not afraid of them betraying the country at all, but even so, Marai has never really felt at ease with these demon descendants of the Ai tribe, and has been monitoring them, so the people of Marai Is it wrong to treat the Ai people in this way? That's right, because their Malay minds are also being brainwashed by the state, and they don't even know the truth. They think that humiliating and torturing the Ai is justifiable. If they don't do this, they are not real Malays.
This is the reality of Marley
Most of the people living inside the walls of Koh Phangan are also brainwashed by Wang Zheng to think that the world is so big, they are the only human beings left, and any remarks about outside the walls are considered to be harmful to society
Whether it is the Malai or Pao system, it wants the people to obey their own will, and it is the tens of millions of ordinary people who suffer the most. Their suffering consolidates the centralization of power at the top
, As Armin said, even if there are only Pa Islanders left in the world in the end, Pa Islanders will fight endlessly. This also corresponds to the illustration of the ending, even if Ellen destroys 80% of the world Humans can't stop the demise of Pa Island. The best way to end the war is to have only one person left in the world, because the greatness and darkness of human nature, justice and evil will always coexist.
The space is limited. The above is about the choice of the protagonist and the environment system in "Attack on Titan". There are too many flesh-and-blood people and stories in the play. The captain and the soldier, as well as Armin and Mikasa, this is an extremely rich work, and it is also a work that I do not regret spending so much time researching.
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