"Everyone is just a short passerby"

Lori 2022-10-29 05:13:50

Autumn 2021 ends in September

It seems to be back to the high school career again. One day is filled with intense study. It is hard to find the time to watch this film on National Day. It attracted me so much that I did it twice in a day.

In the past, most animation productions were hand-painted, although the cost was high, but the pictures were exquisite and full of details, which is very different from the current digital paintings. So much so that this animation movie has reached the level of "one frame and one picture can be screenshots".

This strong artistic feature is almost everywhere full of Gothic style. Coupled with the fragmented ruins of the universe and planets, it renders a strong sense of desolation and powerlessness due to weak technology. It's like the last lingering breath of the nobles who were slaughtered to extinction.

The stage is filled with the future interstellar, and the main line is the pleasure of enmity. Each character's personality is perceptual and transparent, full of romantic rhyme. Reminiscent of "Star Cowboy".

Layla should be the only person in love in the whole film. After losing the brothers who were fighting side by side and seeing the unrecognized love between the nobles and human beings, I was gradually able to give up the hatred of the nobles in my heart and turn to understanding.

So if she can have a family, there will be no home for someone without love. So she would be willing to make an agreement with D to give flowers to the tomb.

What moved me the most was D

He himself is simply synonymous with loneliness. Suffering the pain of eternal life forever, accumulating the unbearable weight of life.

Nobles have endless lives, so they are forgotten by time. For them all are short-lived visitors. No one can escape death.

But in other words, although everyone’s life length is different, each person’s time in each other’s lives has never been the same. You never seem to know who will come to your life and stay in the future. How long and when to leave. Among the many encounters and partings, the gathering and the dispersion, only one's own life is impermanent. Loneliness is the background color of life, you are always only yourself.

In fact, we are as lonely as D.

"If I can't bear this kind of nature, I will cast my blood teeth on humans. When the time comes, I will be expelled, nothing more." D has no longer considered the consequences of choices and the things that will be visible in the future. He knows what will happen but he will do it anyway. This is a knight's choice without regrets and the courage to admit the fate of loneliness.

In the dawn after the bloody battle, the spacecraft took the dead Charlotte and the nobles to Yongye. In exchange for this redemption, it cost such a cruel price. Layla understood that perhaps the rising spaceship was the last solace for them. I hope everyone can get their wish from this cruel world.

"If I die, please offer a bunch of flowers to my funeral." D. Follow the agreement and come with flowers. This is the most "interstellar cowboy" I think. The cold mixed-race nobles also have such a romantic and sentimental scene. Even though time has passed for a long time, things are not, people who remember D have become the descendants of Layla

At the end of the film, watching the biracial horse riding a long journey with loneliness and depression. The rock end ost of the Big Infinity Orchestra sounded, this finishing touch dilutes the sadness of the whole film a little bit, taking a deep breath, it is full of relief to fate and the impermanence of life.

"So people are short-lived travelers"

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Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust quotes

  • [first lines]

    Title card: The distant future... vampires rule the night, but their numbers are dwindling. With huge bounties on their heads, a class of hunters has emerged: Bounty Hunters. One hunter is unlike the rest. He is a dunpeal: a half-human half-vampire. At war with himself, feared by all, tortured and alone, he is... Vampire Hunter D.

  • [Leila throws a knife into Caroline's head]

    Caroline: Now that cleared my head. I really should return the favor, don't you think, honey?