Ma Lumei and the baseball boy are the self-protection mechanism and victim mechanism of real life. Ma Lumei represents the false beauty, and the baseball boy represents the false destruction-injury. They are all delusional products of Sagittarius to escape reality. You can think of real life, Ma Lumei and the baseball boy as a triangular relationship. Since it is difficult to resist the high pressure of reality, use the "injury" of the baseball boy to escape, and then use Ma Lumei to comfort myself "I'm not wrong, it's all others. fault".
And through the Internet, this phenomenon has extended from Sagittarius alone to the whole of Tokyo. More and more people buy Malume to obtain false peace, and they look forward to the arrival of the baseball boy to escape reality. The power of the baseball boy grows slowly through the dark side of people's hearts, and eventually devours the whole of Tokyo, but the power of Ma Lumei is no match for the baseball boy, and is also swallowed by the baseball boy, which also reflects the false peace is. I can't resist the darkness, and I comfort myself all day long that "everything is fine", and one day I will be destroyed by the self-injury deep inside my heart. And the way to break all this is to recognize the reality, accept the reality, and reconcile with yourself. The police officer Inokari, who broke the two-dimensional beautiful fantasy space created by Ma Lumei, said, "The reality that I lost my destination is my real destination."
After the initiator, Tsukiko Sagi, reconciled with herself ten years ago, the baseball boy who destroyed Tokyo disappeared, leaving behind a "post-war ruin". The police officer's wife, who had beaten the bat boy, realized that the essence of Ma Lumei and the bat boy were false, and said, "I can't escape from reality, and the idea that escape can save me is just an illusion, no matter how painful it is, we must face the reality squarely. Let's overcome it together." "People are like that, no matter how painful it is, they can stand up and face reality."
However, is Jin Min trying to tell us not to escape from reality? The irony is that two years later, Tokyo was rebuilt as before, and it was still the same sick society - people in high pressure state, everyone looked at their mobile phones with painful expressions, and on the big screen was a new generation of "Ma Lumei", who defeated the baseball boy. Officer Ma Ting became a new "ghost father" and continued to write a new generation of reality, echoing the title. The world is, after all, a cycle. Can reconciliation lead to true peace? Jin Min did not give us an answer. In The Red Pepper, it is said that "in the real world without humanity, the only remnant of humanity's seclusion is the dream."
I think, in this society, people have to need placebos such as Malome, Ball Boy, and Dream Therapy in order to live safely. The morbid society that Jin Min alludes to is true, and we have to rely on these to move forward. This is the real irony.
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