According to the existing evolution history of the earth, since the extinction of the dinosaurs to the present, if we want to name the current human world, then the world we are in should be called the "meta world" - the second world was born after the extinction event of human beings. Should be a while.
According to Xiao Ang's own understanding, the world depicted by Angel's Egg should be a certain world n.
In that world, there are castles with strong religious connotations and giant machines beyond human understanding. (Refer to the machine on which the male protagonist appears and the floating island where the little girl sculpture appears at the end.) In short, after the metamorphosis of technology and the indulging of human desires, the nth world that welcomes human beings may be the future presented to us by the egg of the angel .
Perhaps it is the influence of watching Otomo Keyo recently, because a large part of Otomo Keyo's worldview reflects the out-of-control technology and the pain and confusion of human beings under this out-of-control. So when I watch Oshii Mamoru's film again, what Xiao Ang finally sees is not some profound and obscure logical reasoning such as religious philosophy, but a profound torn confusion and pain, a kind of unspoken Sensual detachment.
First of all, the roles of little girls and men embody this huge contradiction and tear.
The girl is of juvenile physique, pale complexion, and wears oversized clothes, while the man is fully armed, with deep eyes and broken weapons. Although the two of them don't know where they came from, the girl has protected the egg from the very beginning and regards it as the sustenance of her spirit and soul; but the man got off the armor, holding the weapon, and just drifting on the huge ark from beginning to end.
In this way, it is natural and destined for the two to meet and stay together. At the same time, the death of the girl and the wandering of the man and the ending of the sculpture of the man looking at the girl in the film are also a tragic inevitability.
Xiao Ang's logic is very poor, and this film is just a swipe, so he didn't deliberately delve into questions such as who is God and who is an angel.
But does it matter who is God and who is an angel? Does it even matter whether the final egg breaks successfully? Maybe it is really important for some people who are obsessed with the ultimate, but what Xiao Ang finally saw and felt wanted to cry was the despair and desolation in a world that has been destroyed many times.
In the city flooded by the flood, there were only two people who didn't know where they came from. The others were all dead and identical people. They were holding fishing rods and catching huge shadows back and forth. There was no one in the city, there was a huge ark somewhere, and outside was the pouring rain of forty-four days and nights that the ancients had heard of.
The world is about to be destroyed again, and there is only a girl, a man and an egg that has no idea what's in it.
Both were unknown.
In the end, the girl dies, or transcends her physical form. The man looked at the girl's sculpture by the long water, and found that the world he was in was an ark with leaves.
Speaking of which, the universe is infinite, and the feeling that the avenue is narrow makes Xiao Ang feel a little scared.
Further, there are even some terrifying conjectures. If the legend of Noah's Ark is true, then what world are we in?
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