Fantasy and reality, individual and whole

Keith 2022-04-21 09:03:53

Ten years ago, the girl Yuezi took her pet dog Ma Lome for a walk. Due to the neglect of the dog's leash, the dog was run over by a passing vehicle. Yuezi was afraid of her father's reproach, so she lied: there was a man wearing golden roller skates and holding a metal Teenager with baseball bat passed by cynic and smashed to death Malome. Everything is the ptsd of the confinement, so the horror cases of "Road Demon" spread in the streets and alleys, and people were panicked for a while. Because he is a brain supplement, the police are naturally helpless. It is also why the victims who were attacked by the "Road Demon" in the first few episodes of the story have nowhere to redress. Later, it gradually evolved into that only people with poor mental state would faint and die under the stick of "Baby Boy", which also reflected the general low mental state of people in Japanese society at that time from a series of perspectives.

When Yuezi became an adult, because of her childhood memories of "Ma Luomei", she pinned it on the hand-painted characters, and "Ma Luomei" suddenly became a hot mascot in Japan, and the surrounding area was always sold out. The power of faith in Japan should not be underestimated: the fear of "Baby Boys" and the pursuit of "Malomi" made Tokyo a ruin of cholera for a while. .

Then I had to praise Mr. Jinmin for his incredible brains. From the perspective of "Baby Boy", he is a holy warrior who saves the frustrated, just like rescuing a princess who was imprisoned on a tall tower, imagining that he is a prince holding a holy sword. In the process of police officer Ma Ting investigating the truth of the case, he seems to have become the savior. Thanks to his investigation of the truth about ten years ago, everything can be brought to light. The image of "Savior" fits perfectly.

Officer Zhushou almost became a victim of the "Boy Boy". In fact, he has always been very concerned about the fact that his wife's sick body is unable to give birth to children, but due to the responsibility of a husband, although he is brooding, he can't bear to break it, so Blindly drinking and drinking to drink and worrying, I don't even go home often. Even knowing that his wife has been waiting for him, he has been running away. Although he said to his wife, "The idea that you can be saved by running away is just an illusion." But the irony is that he kept running away from his wife until after her death, he suddenly realized, "My destination has long since disappeared, and the reality of losing my destination is the only way to realize it. It's my true home."

"Baby Boy" is Lu Yuezi's fantasy, and it is also her "delusional agent" to avoid her father's punishment. Why doesn't her father escape his strictness towards Yuezi and accompany her to act with her? How many people in Japan did not escape and accept the reality in that era? After all, it was a time when suicide was prevalent, and there was even a park dedicated to erecting a sculpture saying, "Suicide is prohibited here."

The belief that Master Jin Min conveys to us in each of his works is:

1. There is a difference between fantasy and reality, fantasy can never become reality

2. No matter how painful life is, don't give up the belief in life (quotes by delusional agent)

The end of the story: the ruins will eventually pass, and new people will always welcome. I only hear new people laughing, but old people cry. After everything, the sun rises as usual, the earth turns as usual, and everything will pass. There is always the next new thing, the next new people. Things change, nothing stays the same.

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