metaphor from the abyss

Finally finished watching this well-received work, let me say a few words

Let’s talk about the conclusion first, this is probably the best TV animation this year. The pictures, music and plot are excellent. It’s your loss for those who follow the drama if they don’t watch this. With beautiful coloring pictures and music bonuses, I surrendered after only 20 pages. Let’s just wait for the second season of the animation. The following comments are all based on the first season of the TV version of the animation, a total of 13 episodes.

$metaphor

In terms of metaphor, the god of this drama is divided into two levels: inside and outside:

There are two levels of characters. The superficial characters are the two protagonists Rico and Reg and the various cavemen they encountered on the various layers of the abyss. On the inner level, those people are metaphors for the entire human being, and the other is opposite to them. The character is the abyss, a metaphor for the entire external world that human beings need to face.

The plot has two levels. The surface level is that Li Ke goes to the bottom of the abyss to find her mother, and Reg is looking for her own life experience. At the inner level, this is actually a metaphor for human beings to find the source of their own existence and the meaning of life. The promotion of the plot On the surface, power is a bond of family affection, but the deeper driving force actually comes from human curiosity and desire to explore, as well as the convergence of the nature of freedom. As the Bible says, you have to pursue the truth, and the pursuit of the truth will give you bring freedom.

$ abyss

This is the real protagonist of the story, and the portrayal of the abyss reflects the author's inner world and the worldview he wants to express. First of all, there is no god here. Although there are all kinds of incredible heritage and situations in the abyss, it is obvious that there is no god here. There is no unreasonable magic, gods and other powers in the inner logic of this work, and even the most mysterious curse of Abyss has slowly revealed its truth from a physical point of view through careful scientific observation and experiments. In the works of the origin and meaning of human existence, if there is no place for God and religion, there is only nothingness instead. From the abyss is from nothingness. Inappropriately speaking, this is a work of scientism :)

From the perspective of individual life, life only comes from the combination of a sperm and an egg. From the perspective of the entire life family, the initial life probably comes from a certain spin of a molecular chain of a certain element, and it came about by chance. Protein macromolecules... There can be no meaning whatsoever here, everything is accidental and random.

But from the abyss is not a world-weary and nihilistic work. The characters in the work choose to face the abyss and explore and move forward without leaving behind. This is a living state of human beings in the universe, a choice of attitude, and also the author's intention. The attitude expressed. Although we all come from nothingness, we still have to find the truth, no matter how cruel what awaits ahead. It is human nature to crawl towards the Abyss as soon as it is born. Valuable stubbornness, it and the grim abyss like a desperate situation constitute the core of the work's tension.

Different from the human beings in the Bible who are forced to leave the Garden of Eden and long to go back and still worship God and love the Lord, the human world in has already entered the stage of "since God does not exist, everything is allowed". If you can go to the next level, you will completely lose basic morality and humanity. The further you go down the abyss, the farther you are from higher creatures, the farther away you are from the ancient times when life began, and the closer you get to the cold, inorganic environment. The same is true for scientific exploration. When deciphering human consciousness and the essence of life, all morals and ethics can only be sidelined.

In the play, Liming Qing is of course the villain, and the author is also critical of him, but it must be seen that Liming Qing is consistent with everyone in the inner level of power, and what drives him to act is the pure desire to explore downward. .On this level, there is only one object of tension that all characters face - Abyss Abyss.

$ free from the cursed cage

The metaphors of the whole work are very clear, but there is a slight turn in the cage of eliminating the curse. Why did the author add a dead and resurrected setting to Li Ke? And let Li Ke be a stillbirth at the beginning, here is the Isn't it a bit artificially cruel and made a gimmick-like trick? Let me guess for a long time. In reality, the history of human understanding of the world is probably like this:

Copernicus: Earth is no different from planets in the sky

Darwin: Humans are no different from other animals

Einstein: Time and space are no different

Modern Cognitive Intelligence Science: Human Intelligence and the Delivery of Electricity Are No Different

Modern life science: life is no different from non-life

With the continuous deepening of research, the sacred coat has fallen off layer by layer. At the source of life, life and non-life are not inseparable. The author made Li Ke a stillborn child and should still emphasize nothingness. tension.

According to this statement, the following plot should further highlight the conflict between her stillborn and the living explorer in Rico, looking forward to the second season.

In the end, even if life comes from nothingness, we can live as brave and useless as Riko, no matter what the price is, our nature will make us look for the bottom of Naruto, and when we take the first step, we will There are no plans to return to the Garden of Eden.