Astonishing as a masterpiece of heaven and man, I thought the first half was just a personal level, a reality that could not be faced, and the delusion generated by escaping under heavy pressure. It was not until the second half that I realized that Jin Min's ambition is far more than that, the difference between reality and fantasy. Relationships, the functioning and problems of social groups, are all included.
The surreal style and suspenseful narrative and the transformation of various painting styles are still Jin Min's taste, and many independent stories also have quite obvious themes and a high degree of completion.
It can't even be said that hallucinations have the same importance as reality, but the so-called reality does not exist, we know everything around us in an unstable way, determine our behavior, traumatic impossibility. It becomes a knot in our heart, and it becomes an inescapable inner part of us, so that it spreads around, and further has a huge social impact in mass communication, causing everything to be swallowed up and problems in the whole society.
The ending is very light and heavy, the person who started at the personal level no longer escapes, can accept the huge trauma, the black flood, the delusional agent disappears, and the social level, those disasters really exist. , everything seems to be rebuilt after the war, which is undoubtedly full of metaphors and reflections on Japan's history and environment. The creepy thing is that everything will eventually reincarnate, and collective hysteria seems to be inevitable.
Come to think of it, combining psychoanalysis, real-world environment/problems, and Jin Min's unique style can have a very beautiful discussion.
The death of two teenagers in the sixth episode, part of the reveal of the truth; the suicide squad in the eighth episode; the fantasy and the truth in the 12th and thirteenth episodes, I personally think these episodes are the most exciting.
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