Unlike others who like the suspenseful parts of the show, what attracted me to this show was the political implications it covered.
The clever setting covers almost all the elements of totalitarian politics, which made me hooked after watching a few episodes.
This is how I know power:
1. Power is so strong that everyone who thinks of resistance and resistance is desperate.
Whether it is the captive children in the orphanage, or their guardian "mother", they only realize after facing the power that the other party is a powerful force that cannot be defeated, and their own resistance seems extremely ridiculous.
There are several hints on this in the play:
After trying his best to climb the towering outer wall of the orphanage, he saw not a smooth road, but a bottomless abyss;
The size, strength, speed, and anti-strike ability of ghosts far surpass those of humans, and their long nails can easily cut off human heads like sharp blades;
The "mothers" who could cover the sky with one hand in the orphanage met their superiors, but they were only servants who were obsessed with their lives, and even their own lives were in the hands of the superiors;
Clooney, who wanted to be a mother, only knew before he died that he had no chance from the beginning, he was just a pawn at the mercy of others, and the advantage of being a mother was only to be able to Without freedom, live a little "better" than you are now.
2. Power does not rely solely on fear to maintain its rule. Violence is used to deter individual protesters who emerge from groups, but in larger groups it relies on information monopoly.
The fully enclosed orphanage has created a fake world. The children of the orphanage live in it innocently and with peace of mind. Until they die, they don't know that the whole meaning of their life is to become a delicacy in the mouths of others!
Then, can the ghosts of the outer world know the whole truth? Sorry, what I want to tell you in the play is that the society of ghosts is the same as that of human beings! As the saying goes, where there are people, there is politics, and where there are ghosts, there will also be politics, and it is no different from human society. Ordinary inferior ghosts have always been kept in the dark by the lies of the royal family and nobles, naively thinking that they are not allowed to drink evil blood because the evil blood is poisonous, and the ruling class killed all the evil blood girls for the sake of the common people, Prevent ghosts from being "poisoned".
Information monopoly makes people live in a world of ignorance and illusion. When encountering this problem in the animation, the author even threw a higher-level problem: "In a world full of warmth, delicious food and full of In a loving home, you won't feel hunger and cold, don't know the truth, and die contentedly, where is the misfortune?"
If wisdom means loneliness and suffering, what is the point of seeking knowledge, and what is the purpose of knowing the truth of life? Wouldn't it be better to live foolishly and happily?
The author then gave the answer through Emma's words: "I don't want this false happiness, I have the right to define what real happiness is!"
3. Monopolize scarce social resources to further control social groups
Lies cannot escape the eyes of the wise, and the lies of totalitarian rulers are not reliable. People with a little logical thinking can find the contradictions in them. If just relying on lies is not enough, how can you control millions of people? The answer is to monopolize the scarce resources of society.
In real life, what necessities can be monopolized? There is nothing more than a good job and the opportunity to make money easily. Do you know why it is difficult to take the civil service exam? Do you know why oil prices never come down?
In the ghost society, scarce resources have become human flesh, and ghosts will gradually degenerate into wild ghosts if they do not eat human flesh. The supply of human flesh is monopolized by the nobles and the royal family. The amount of supply, high-quality goods and similar goods, who will be given to whom, and the speed of supply, are all up to the ruler.
4. Rulers often disguise themselves as saviors, claiming that everything they do is for the good of the people, and that only they can bring benefits to the people and realize the ultimate vision of the nation. Such narratives are often accompanied by propaganda of extreme nationalism and hatred. For example, the world is full of aggressors who are hostile to us, maliciously frame our country, and the bad things in the world are done by other countries. It justifies itself by distorting and vilifying the outside world, by portraying the country as a poor, dangerous, unfriendly, war-torn, turbulent place.
There are many internal conflicts between decent people, Barbara who eats ghost meat, and Norman's extermination plan, all of which conflict with the beliefs of the protagonist Emma, should you hate or forgive? The author seems to be implying, intentionally or unintentionally, that as a total revenge of humans against ghosts, the evil domination of ghosts over humans will transition to the evil domination of humans over ghosts.
How to end all this? To break out of the cycle of hatred, to gain true individual freedom, and to realize an enlightened society?
The author once again uses Emma's mouth to express the main idea: to understand forgiveness, forgiveness is love for others, and only love can eliminate evil and lead to freedom.
It's a bit too much to say, first keep a backup in case of an accident, my mother is behind me.
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