An ordinary person, so ordinary that his knowledge of religion and philosophy is not enough to interpret this surrealist work by Mamoru Oshii.
The abstract concept that Oshii wanted to express is represented by countless symbols, including the only two figures that appear to be alive.
It seems that every scene, every object, every behavior, every paragraph of speech has a symbol, limited by cognition, chewing a little taste between what I understand and not understanding, and sharing it with the same ordinary you.
There are only three kinds of "people" who have acted and acted in the whole film.
The first is the "fisherman":
After the appearance of the "fish shadow", they chased and killed the "fish shadow" as if they were "reborn". They hunted with agility and concentration, and their skills were like the most professional hunters. This silent world, which already seemed to be the end of the world, was further destroyed in a ping-pong-pong meal. This is the most beautiful but weirdest hunt I have ever seen, a hunt without blood that is more cruel than death. The world intertwined among destroyers, shadows, and buildings is so desperate.
I don’t know what these people, objects, and scenes represent in religion. I can only watch human beings chasing those illusory desires and turn a blind eye to the more destruction that results. The most terrifying thing is that human beings are all about all this. The unawareness and concentration of the truth.
The second is "girl, woman":
A weak, fragile, and pure girl always holds a precious egg, takes care of it and waits for something, and protects her egg more sensitively when a third party (man) appears. She should be holding something called hope, but unfortunately this thing is as fragile as her protector.
When the egg was smashed by a man with a cross, the girl's crying and blind pursuit were very much like the true portrayal of every human being with hope when his first hope was shattered. And falling into the water, transforming into a woman, vomiting more eggs, and becoming a religious statue, these processes seem to represent a kind of rebirth, but it is more like she who has faith (hope) creates more empty hope and become one of the "Gods".
The third is the "grown man":
Always with an attitude that seems to understand the world, seems to know the falsity of the desire pursued by the "fishing man", seems to know the emptiness of the hope that the "girl" embraces, stares at the building rising in the sea, staring at the stone statue, Staring at the boundless sea, he looked rational and tired.
He seems to be the most insightful, holding a big guy in the shape of a cross, as if he is a real "god", but he is more like a past person who knows a lot of facts, he can see the "capturer" who is in the same dimension as himself. Fish people" and "girls, women", but can't recall too much of the past, can't see the future that can be looked forward to, like a member of all living beings.
Yes, sentient beings, what I want to say is that the three types of people I have seen, whether they are those who pursue desires, those who have faith (hope), or those who hold rationality, are all one type of sentient beings, they are the same Yes, they don't really know what kind of macro world they exist in, let alone whether the direction they choose is really meaningful and has a future.
I'll never know if Oshii is cruelly telling us that we are one of the beings on the "bottom" of the ark(?).
I will never know, what kind of world do we, who are also members of all living beings, exist in, and where is the "God"?
Successful people? religious believer? the scientist?
Who can tell us the real answer?
Regarding the meaning of bottles, feathers, water, etc., whether the egg itself is empty or hatches an angel and then flew away, and whether the land shown at the end is the bottom of the ark, etc., are difficult to chew from my knowledge. Taste, welcome friends who have a more accurate understanding to give pointers.
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