A mirage with the characteristics of "I"

Christop 2022-06-10 20:22:26

I haven't watched the previous episodes. At first glance, I was a little confused. Why did Okabe have those phantoms? There are roughly two settings, parallel world and time machine.

The disappearance of Okabe and the recovery of Kurisu, the essence of the main plot or a character that characterizes people, a world of emotions that can resonate with me? Because of the lack of a solid expression of love, he does not dare to agree with the current beauty and the attitude of being alienated from the real world; because of the lack of trust, he always moves forward alone, hoping for companionship but habitually rejects the ambivalence of others.

Hong Liqi's decision to return to the past is endless. This is a decision that may bring irreversible chaos to the entire time and space. However, I am afraid that I will make the same selfish choice when I am in that situation. After finding the object, the long-repressed need to love and be loved becomes unstoppable. Hong Liqi who is in it seems to find a life-saving straw to find the object, but ignores the rest of the world. , The final result is likely to be one and the other, backtracking again and again to try to mend the past and let yourself and others fall into a painful cycle. At the same time, this also raises a question: If life can be repeated, is this a good thing or a bad thing?

The final ending of the anime was too beautiful, but perhaps because of that resonance, this ending gave me great comfort. To talk about the meaning of this animation to me, there is a vivid metaphor: it is a mirage floating on the wasteland of my soul.

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Steins;Gate: The Movie - Load Region of Déjà Vu quotes

  • Rintarou Okabe: Time-leap machines and time machines should never be built! Even if you can figure out how to do it, you should never ever build one!

    Kurisu Makise: If I don't do something, you'll vanish. You will never have existed... I have no choice but to change the past!

    Rintarou Okabe: And what if you fail? What if it doesn't go well? The answer is simple. You do it again. You keep going back to the past until you succeed. As long as they have the means to go back in time, that's what people will do.

    Rintarou Okabe: But it'll only increase the suffering. A change in the past will always affect something else. It will never change in a way that's convenient for you. If you save someone, you will lose someone... Dreams you finally fulfilled won't exist anymore. Your long-held desires will be snatched away, eradicated... and when the change you hoped for doesn't happen, you will have to keep facing that inescapable reality again and again, again and again!

    Rintarou Okabe: Do you realize the pain of continuously repeating all of that while bearing the responsibility for all of those losses? Do you understand the fear of losing your humanity after it wears you down?

    Kurisu Makise: But...

    Rintarou Okabe: Even if you have the means, the past ust not be changed. You must not turn chance into reality.

    Rintarou Okabe: No one knows the future. It's because the past cannot be undone that people can accept all sorts of pain, adversity, and cruel accidnets, yet still move forward.

    Kurisu Makise: The what are you going to do, Okabe? You're going to disappear! I... I saw it... A world where you don't exist. A lab with only Mayuri, Hashida, and me... Where nobody remembers you... It was crueler than death! Any mark or meaning of your existence will disappear!

    Rintarou Okabe: ...I don't care.