A very threshold adult animation.
In terms of sound, this animation does a very good job. First, the sound effects are great. It may be because the male protagonist has a habit of collecting sounds, so the sound effects are very detailed and realistic. The sound of flies flapping their wings, the sound of wind, the sound of lighters, the sound of subways pressing down on the track, the sound of children’s laughter, chewing, the sound of knife cutting the wooden plank, the sound of footstepping on the snow...all impressed me deeply. The second is that the BGM is very nice. I like the BGM after the heartstrings are tightened and relaxed. It has a very empty and lonely feeling, which fits the whole work very well.
However, I may not have a deep understanding of the story itself.
I think the theme of this work is still "loneliness", which seems to be an eternal topic. The life of the male lead was simple and happy when he was young, and his father and mother were kind and enlightened people. His dream is to become a pianist who can go to space, and his biggest hobby is to collect sounds in life with portable cassettes. But one day, precisely because of collecting voices, his parents left him forever. Since then, his life has ceased to be bright, and has slowly become an adult who messes around every day.
Finally one day, he met the heroine, and the extra care lightened his lonely life. No wonder he lost his defenses and mustered the courage to approach the light. Helplessly, "lonely" still surrounds him, and the hostess is just a normal attitude towards him. His little igloo blocked the gloomy sky and cold temperature, but life was still peaceful. In the end, I thought he was a bit "idiotic", so-lost his hand.
The "I" in the title is not me, but the hand. This hand shows a different attitude to life from "I". It used its own power to traverse the entire city. It bravely confronted mice, witty coping with changes, and repeatedly demonstrated "parkour" skills, but it also includes gentleness, picking up fallen pacifiers for babies, and secretly sitting next to blind musicians. Listening quietly to his piano, finally gently returned to "me". The latter two episodes, now I think about it, I feel a little bit crying. While sitting there listening to the piano, it recalled how it had played the piano a long time ago, and it couldn't go back to everything when it was a child. The sad thing is that when the eavesdropping was discovered, he was treated as a street rat, beaten with sticks, and bitten by dogs. But when it finally returned to "me", it was exhausted, and it just wanted to go back to its original position and take a good rest. But the director cruelly pulled me back to reality when I thought the work was going to fantasy.
The whole work is almost gray and dark tones, and the only bright spot is the bright mint green when I first saw the real heroine. And in the North Pole he yearned for, it was also a vast area of real cleanliness. Such small people living at the bottom of society must be very common. They have no goals, but are immersed in loneliness, looking for a little bit of light, and then work hard to grasp them, and finally are tortured by life again.
I think the most important thing is to "accept loneliness." Loneliness is the normal state of human beings. People come to this world alone, and they will leave this world alone. The eyes, nose, hands, body and brain all belong to us. Therefore, we must accept loneliness and use our own hands to light up the lighter, instead of pinning the hope of life on the light emitted by others.
The hero accepted this loneliness in the end, so he recorded his loneliness with a cassette. That jump was a carnival facing death, a self-liberation. I don't know if he committed suicide in the end or survived. But I know that that "hand" "let go" with relief.
I don't know if this is considered a kind of perverse, I just saw the comment about "perverse" in the book today. Everyone is more or less a little "pilot", but this kind of loneliness of being unable to get along with others, I don't know if it is necessary to "cure" it.
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