Mamoru Oshii's main animated film works have a very strong personal style, which contains his philosophical thoughts on history and human nature. Oshii Mori's ideas are almost consistent in his major animation works. He adheres to a pessimistic naturalistic theory of human nature, believing that human nature is hopelessly corrupted. He endorses a cyclical view of history—humanity has been repeating absurd mistakes for millions of years. Seeing that bangumi and Zhihu netizens secretly mentioned that there are two important ships in Oshii's works, one is Noah's Ark, and the other is the ship of Theseus. Noah's Ark is featured in Angel's Egg. The story world of Mamoru Oshii can be regarded as the world of "God Absence". Heidegger called Jesus "the last god", because in the West, Jesus ended the age of the gods, but he was killed by people, so Heidegger believed that after Jesus came to his age, gods and gods were absent Dark Ages. The gods here are more in a cultural sense than in reality. In the absence of God, mankind's self-rescue efforts have failed, the world is full of great floods, and mankind can only survive in Noah's Ark. The Ship of Theseus refers to Kusanagi Motoko's thinking in "Ghost in the Shell" about whether he is still the original self after changing his body from a physical body to a mechanical one. The metaphor should be the relationship between existence and essence in the philosophy of reality. Existentialism believes that existence precedes essence, and that only the essence is changed when the body is replaced by a mechanical body. Existence is still existence. The background of "Ghost in the Shell" is a postmodern "cyber society" - full of scum from the failure of self-help. Postmodern society is the result of the failure to overcome the crisis of modernity, the disintegration of the center-periphery order, the destruction of the center, and only piles of fragments remain. Bloch believes that God is just a consciousness of hope, a utopian consciousness, that is, man needs an idol to create God. In Oshii Mamoru's works, God has never really existed, but human beings are full of "original sin" - imperfect in itself, because without God's redemption, it will not be complete. Postmodern society is a society in which grand narratives decline, as well as a society in which beliefs decline, and human beings begin to indulge in "electronic utopias". As Baudrillard said, the "hyper-reality" constructed by "electronic utopia" has more real meaning and influence to people than reality. In the post-modern consumer society, people are more willing to consume for symbols and symbolize themselves through consumption.
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