This is a political and philosophical drama in a cute cloak. It wasn't until I watched the last two episodes and then went back and reviewed the BD that I confirmed this complete conjecture. The complex settings in the film are also intertwined to form a complete pattern. What does QB mean when he says that the battle of magical girls drives the development of mankind? Why is Joan of Arc also a magical girl? Why can't Hei Changzhi beat Witch Night? Why is she fighting alone in the end? What is the complex use of the seed of grief alluding to? This magical girl, written as a symbolic story of human history, actually hides a dramatic vision of rationality, modernity and the future.
The Witch and the Magical Girl: The Essence of Modern Combat The
first shady scene of this film, which is different from the traditional magic cute girl film, is the transformation of the magical girl and the witch. Here's a modern metaphor: how contractualism replaced theosophy. The kinky beast in the traditional magical girl film mode is the existence of the godhead, and the battle between the witch and the magical girl is initiated by the gods. Obviously, this is just the sprouting of the struggle between God and Satan in traditional theology.
But the magical girls of the new era fight out of their own desires, and the witches fight under the control of their own desires; the evil here is no longer a transcendental rule, nor is it because it violates the classical balance, but there is nowhere Absence, the desire and the battle itself will constantly generate evil (black in the gem), and not even death can destroy it unless it is swallowed by the QB as a spent seed of grief. This is the modern, godless, chaotic way of fighting. So what is the nature of the QB leading all this battle?
QB: Rational contract / Human ◕ ‿‿ ◕ Human＼
Why does QB say that without him, humans are still apes? Is it the black slate in 2001? Their images are just the opposite (one black, one white; one hard, one soft....). Think again about the QB's own claim that it came from a planet that couldn't understand feelings. The symbolic nature of QB is clear: reason, the devil in Faust. Human beings are separated from apes because of reason; magical girls gain reason, so that their life can be visualized, grasped, and turned into a certain purpose. So, why does it need to sell cuteness to humans and find someone to sign a contract?
Kinky beasts say that their planets need to get energy from their feelings to reduce entropy. The entropy here cannot be understood purely from the perspective of statistical physics, but from the perspective of mathematical logic. Gödel's incompleteness theorem means that a rational existence cannot establish a system that can express infinity. It needs an irrational girl to drive rationality itself toward infinity, and it needs a living piece of meat as its place in time and space. The manifestation of God, that is, the "energy source" it says, which is the incarnation of God in another sense. And the transformation process of Magical Girl-Witch means that the desire that originally drives reason is split with reason. The rational part is brought to its planet by QB as energy, and the madness of pure desire is left to this world to bear. This transformation process is the history of mankind, and every rational progress leaves behind a large corpse of crazy people.
Ba Mami: Classical and naive
first killed the classical world, that is, the U-turn of the senior. The image of Senior Sister is enough to illustrate her symbolic nature, and Charlotte, who bit her off from the African grassland, may also be pinching how anthropology has divided the classical world. This also explains that in the timeline of the second week, senior sister couldn't bear the truth, but she killed Hongmao in anger. Because the red hair symbolizes modern technology, senpai will vent her resentment against rationality in her rejection of modern technology.
Sayaka Miki:
The blue-haired symbol of eroticism in the age of love and romance, who eventually died in NTR. When erotic desire cannot be satisfied, if you turn to reason for help, you will be bound by the desire for gratitude-return, which magic (rationality) cannot solve in the end. This was the romantic age that followed the classical age. The Romantic Age finally abandoned reason and plunged into the frenzied sensualism that Bluefur became the witch.
Sakura Kyoko: Modern technology
and blue hair eventually perish together is red hair. This symbolizes the mutual lily of modern technology and sensualism, finally entering another world together.
Xiaomeiyan:
Hei Changzhi from different cultures and historical rationality came from another time line, and at the same time brought the cause and effect she accumulated: the knowledge about rational beasts accumulated by foreign cultures. But how to convince Little Round Face to believe the truth of the kinky beast? As Hei Changzhi said, the more worlds she has experienced, the harder it will be for Little Round Face to understand her intentions. Getting a late culture to understand the dangers of reason is both difficult and ineffective.
Kagome Yuan: Justice, Kindness, and Revolutionary
Small Round Face As the most traditional magical girl protagonist, under the temptation of reason, she signed the contract last. This is obviously due to Hei Changzhi's historical experience, but it is Hei Changzhi's behavior that has caused Xiaoyuanlian to endure several timelines, which is the evil of all modern civilizations, so if Xiaoyuanlian is finally combined with rationality, will be stronger than ever. This is the powerful regime established by the call of justice, which is enough to overcome all the evils brought about by reason, but after it goes crazy, it is the end of the world.
Little Round Face's final choice is to directly confront the rules of evil and change the world, which is the 〇〇ism revolution. After a seemingly victorious ED, all the magical girls except Kuro Changzhi disappeared, but the evil did not disappear. The small round face (justice) was forgotten in the world after the successful revolution, because since the world itself was created by justice, it should be perfect, and there is no justice against evil. The only one who remembers the little round face is the black long straight left from another world, and only she has the ability to continue to eliminate the evil in this world. But what about after the black grows straight? Reason has been unable to harm the young girls, and let them continue to engage in confrontation and evil battles. This is a tragic ending. Is there a second season?
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