For the convenience of reading, let's do a little popular science about the names of the characters:
Alita = Gary
Doctor Ed = Ed
Hugo = Oko
When the first trailer of "Battle Angel Alita" was released in 2018, I was frightened and persuaded to quit by the pair of incomparably disobedient eyes. I thought, isn't this the female version of Gollum? ? And why did you change the heroine's name? ? But this Ide is a bit handsome... With the release of other trailers for "Battle Angel Alita", I learned that the film was produced and scripted by Uncle Cameron, and I felt that it was still worth watching. After some Amway, I finally watched the movie together. However, the impression the whole movie gave me was that I knew every picture, but when these pictures were put together, I couldn't understand it.
In the comics, Id named the heroine "Gary", and his assistant said it was a boy's name, but Id just smiled. Gary is not as obsessed with her past and identity as Alita in the movie. Just like this slightly boyish name, she bravely faces every new thing and pursues what she wants. Like the robots in "Westworld", they don't look for themselves, just live a new life and don't dwell on the past. In the face of love, too, especially in the handling of the kiss, Alita in the movie is crying in the rain bemoaning that her machine body is not worthy of a human human being, and Hugo hugged her and kissed her. she. And when Gary in the comics faced Oko, although she was also in the same entanglement, she still boldly confessed to Oko and kissed him. Therefore, in the handling of many details, as well as her behavioral logic and ideological roots, Alita and Gary are already two people. From an emotional point of view, this is also the most difficult part for me to accept.
The same is true of Ide, when he picks up Gary in the comics, he is the kind of feeling like finding a baby in the garbage, all he wants is to make her beautiful and let her shine, it is a complex feeling from adults, not in the movie. That simple and crude father-daughter relationship (perhaps easier to understand). Including the old man with the robot dog, the big strong villain, and the hunter hanging with a knife in the movie, every character in the movie is described very rigidly and thinly.
And then let’s talk about motivation. What the movie shows is nothing more than an old-fashioned story of a girl with amnesia who finds herself, gets true love, and faces life, but the comics take Gary as the main line, telling the story of people pursuing free will in a miserable life, dreaming of A story about fulfilling your long-cherished desire.
For example, the character Oko (called Hugo in the movie), in the movie he just wanted to "go to Salem" for no reason, and then killed himself stupidly. But in the comics, Ouke, his father made a balloon and wanted to fly to the sky to see it (it is not allowed to fly in Scrap Iron Town), but was reported by the eldest son, and finally the whole family died in a row. The brand of "going to Salem" was deeply engraved in Oko's heart, "What is there to cause the death of my father and brother?"
As for the Mobile Ball Championship, in the fourth volume of the comic, Gary said that the game was just a "method of pursuit" rather than "the pursuit itself", and although she won the game, she didn't really care about the rolling The iron ball, she just wants to know where she can reach, she is just strong enough, so those teammates who really focus on the game and spend their whole lives will say to her "you are just an outsider". But those who were bent on pursuing victory ended up being the scum that fell on her path to victory.
Although our eyes are always on the protagonist, when we think about the supporting roles and the scum, they are very like you and me in all living beings. Others don’t make much effort, but we become those ashes. All kinds of complicated emotions have contributed to the This is a sad or happy story.
Finally, it is about the core "people" of the story. In Gunmeng's story, the whole world is divided into four layers, from top to bottom are Jerusalem City - Salem City - Scrap Iron Town - Sewer Ruins. The ruins of the sewers are full of rubbish (even living things are rubbish), the scrap iron town is full of broken human beings, the city of Salem is a transformed high-level immortal (but they have no brains), and the city of Jerusalem, only exists on the great legend. Jerusalem City threw garbage to Salem City, Salem City threw garbage to Scrap Iron City, and the Scrap Iron City wrecked garbage sewers, and everyone depended on garbage for a living. The underground people living in the sewers want to climb up to the scrap iron town to realize self-identity, and the people in the scrap iron town want to climb to the city of Salem to realize the value identification, but the people of Salem, who seem to be unattainable, have a higher existence above their heads— —The city of Jerusalem... When the protagonists arrive in the city of Salem, they find that the people of Salem who have been oppressing, exploiting, and controlling them have no brains. They exchanged their brains for chips engraved with their own memories and gained immortality. Although their brains were controlled by the higher-level Yelu Council, they lived more "human" lives, enjoyed richer materials, and possessed clearer goals.
So why are people called people? How much does the human body retain to be considered a person? And what carries the will? Does *free will really exist? Like Gary starts off with only one head, her entire biological part has only one brain, but she can also exist as a human being. These questions are like annoying flies, buzzing and making people sleepless. It was once said that people got wisdom and guidance through the second mind, but with the changes of the times, people got rid of the shackles of the dual mind , thereby obtaining true free will. This work explores this all the time, the fate of people in the story is mostly controlled by the voice of God (a higher being), Salem who follows the dichotomy and Gary who looks for free will, when we move away from the protagonist's point of view , perhaps there is not much difference between the two.
There is no accepted definition of free will . The definition of free will in the philosophical circles is not uniform; and the "free will" that people talk about in everyday life is different from the "free will" understood by the judicial circle and the psychology circle. In the broadest sense, free will is the ability of people to decide whether or not to do something according to the conditions they have.
The bicameral mind discovered that humans did not have full self-awareness until about 3,000 years ago, and before that, humans relied on a bicameral mind - one half of the brain would hear guidance from the other when faced with a difficult situation. Guidance is seen as the voice of God.
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