The plot of the movie is very simple. A man in Tokyo lives alone in his own home day after day and year after year. It was the eye contact that made him unacceptable. He bluntly admits that he hates people. That is to say, he hates this social existence as a human being at present. In his view, this existence is meaningless and worthless, making him absolutely intolerable. He freely chose to shut himself up at home, in a world where he lived alone. He was only accompanied by toilet paper, flush toilets, money sent by his father on time, a phone and various books for his take-out orders. This was his whole world. And this kind of life was arranged by him in an orderly and regular manner. Like a robot, he lives according to various programs, without hope or despair. His life rings are like the neatly sized toilet paper in his house, with the exact same diameter. In particular, a shot that the director repeatedly shoots: the empty center of used toilet paper and the empty box after eating pizza, which are carefully stacked against the wall, a pile of completely useless garbage, carefully collected by him, this kind of cognitive dislocation from normal people , This shot can be described as vividly expressed, this is the otaku.
However, a robot with the appearance of a young girl - she was a delivery employee at a pizza shop, made the otaku shudder. Her arrival caused ripples in his life like stagnant water, and awakened his sleeping sexual consciousness. When the otaku unconsciously found out that this beautiful girl was actually a robot, who could act only by the activation of a button, the outside world's What is the truth, a shock occurred in his heart, just like the earthquake in a movie, which led him to want to run away from home and face the world that made him desperate and tired to find out. When he discovered that the entire Tokyo city was an empty city, all the people were either otaku or otaku like him, and the only female robot that moved his heart was about to become an otaku robot girl because of the conflict with human beings. He wakes up and realizes the absurdity and horror of this way of being. So he acted bravely, pressed the button of love on the arm of the robot girl, started the love program, and the movie stopped abruptly.
This short film uses realistic and surreal expressions, and the seemingly absurd plot reveals to people the creator's deep concern for the image of the otaku. When human beings enter the industrial or post-industrial society, material civilization has greatly improved, technology The level is becoming more and more developed, the robots in the movies are no different from the human appearance, the socialized production is becoming more and more perfect, people are separated from the communication platform where people have to deal with each other face-to-face, and enter the virtual world, which produces the otaku in the movie. At work, his father automatically sends him money on time, and as long as he makes a phone call, someone will bring him everything, food, water, books, etc. Entering the virtual world of being separated from the society and the crowd, a paradox arises: the more developed the society, the film Tokyo symbolizes a highly developed industrial society, and people are like a screw in a high-speed developed social machine. , the individual must give up the realization of self and self-worth to the greatest extent to ensure that the machine cannot fail. This way of existence that conflicts with human existence is the direct cause of the otaku, but the otaku chose to give up completely and use an extreme form.
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