At the beginning of the movie, there are two hands. First, the girl's hands seem to be stroking and caring for something, and then they become the hands of a teenager. They clenched their fists and cracked as if they were crushing something. This part is the hint of the ending of the story. Broke the girl's egg. So what is this film trying to convey? To understand the story is to understand the symbolism of the important things in the movie. The curator thought that the girl and the boy symbolize the opposite sides of human beings, the girl is feeling and faith, and the boy is reason and science.
The debut of the teenager is accompanied by advanced instruments and machinery, which is a symbol of human civilization. In the dialogue between the two, he emphasized that to know what is in the egg, we should not rely on subjective guesses, but should open the egg shell and examine it objectively. , which is the spirit of scientific exploration and experimentation. Girls have special feelings for eggs, like to collect bottles and observe the world through glass, while teenagers have no hobbies. The girl firmly believed that the bird was in the egg and held it carefully. She said that I heard its faint breathing and the sound of its wings flapping. The egg has not yet hatched into a bird, how could it be flapping its wings. But she just chooses to believe subjectively and emotionally, which is feeling and belief.
On the chariot that the teenager rides, the barrel is so huge, but if you look closely, it actually looks like a fish head and a fish bone, and it also looks like a certain organ of a male apricot.
In this picture, light and shadow are interlaced, one yin and one yang, and the length of the barrel is exactly the distance between the two.
The tip of the boy's weapon has the same structure.
When Oshii was a child, he heard his mother say that women are born with eggs. Although his mother said it very straightforwardly, to the children, it turned into a wonderful fairy tale born with eggs. Then the metaphor of the boy breaking the egg with a weapon is self-evident.
The town is full of fish sculptures, architectural decorations and glass paintings, which are associated with promotions. Because in primitive society, human beings generally have the custom of promotion and worship, which is also the original apricot of human beings, which symbolizes the most primitive belief of human beings. By extension, the fish in the church are old gods and old beliefs. Countless ancient animal fossils in the cave show that many years have passed in the world. If you count the story time of Noah's Ark, it is at least 4,000 years ago. The bird in the story really existed, but it was too long ago that humans have forgotten it and the gods they once believed in. As a result, the church was deserted, and all living beings began to hunt and kill the gods they once believed in. Although everything was just chasing the wind, they lost Ben Xing. The film finally shows that humans are still on the ark and have never been out.
In the picture of the girl sleeping, the blanket over her body is shaped like her legs, which is a reference to the adult female apricot.
After that, the teenager crushed the eggshell, which is a double metaphor for apricot, and also for rational and scientific crushing feeling and belief. When the girl fell into the water, she no longer implied, but directly portrayed a woman, and then gave birth to countless eggs. When the boy walked on the beach, the feathers all over the place suggested that eventually these eggs hatched countless birds, and the birds were actually people. At the beginning of the movie, the girl runs all the way, and it is the feather that falls.
So the girl who gave birth to life became a new god, like the Virgin Mary.
So why does the boy open the egg and it is empty, while the girl can incarnate into countless birds. In fact, it is because the teenager does not believe it, while the girl's belief is extremely firm. Japanese cartoonist Akino Moli's work "The Pet Shop of Horrors" has such a world view. When the Apollo plan was implemented and humans successfully landed on the moon, whether it was China's Chang'e and Tsukigiya, or Japan's Kaguya, they were all destroyed and died. . The continuous development of science has allowed human beings to explore and understand more. It turns out that there are no Chang'e and Kaguya on the moon, old beliefs continue to die out, and human beings have become more rational and pragmatic.
Sometimes, the more you know, the more confused you become. This is the case with teenagers. Philosophy Triple Strike, Who Am I? where am i from? Where am I going? These questions appear repeatedly in the movie. Reasoning and science, feeling and faith are all valuable spiritual qualities of human beings, and they are indispensable. That's probably what Oshii Mamoru wanted to express.
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