Endless reincarnation, unbreakable destiny - "Air Killer"

Dakota 2022-02-07 14:57:17

The Sky Crawlers is the slowest war movie I've ever seen. After watching the first time, I can't help but watch the first half of the film again. Only after watching the second time can I understand everyone, every action, every sentence, every look, every shot, every piece of music in the movie. meaning.

In a world that has achieved permanent peace, in order to make peace last, and in order for mankind to cherish peace, it is necessary to make mankind remember the cruelty of war, but the records in textbooks and historical materials are not enough - human beings are a kind of Animals who only truly understand what they have experienced or are experiencing. To this end, there are two war contracting companies to operate war performances to satisfy people's desire to experience war, so that people can feel the cruelty of war all the time while enjoying a peaceful life. The so-called war show also uses live ammunition, and of course it is accompanied by death. The performers are the warriors "Eternal Sons" specially created for this purpose, the memory is modified, they only remember that they are warriors and have fighting skills, and fighting is their job. They stop growing after puberty and don't grow old until they die in battle.

"The Godfather" is a legend, he is not the eternal son, he is an adult man driving a fighter plane with black panther livery, any enemy will not come back alive if he encounters him. His method is to bite a fighter first in the battle. At this time, the bitten side will have companions coming from behind to support and want to attack the black panther. At this time, he will suddenly pull up the fighter and immediately stall, and support from behind. The fighter plane will move forward, and he immediately adjusts the nose to directly aim at the support plane at a 90-degree angle, and shoots the opponent at a very close distance. Even if he parachutes, he will be smashed in the air by him.

And this is Yuichi's method. Youyi is the trump card of their company, and the technology is very good. I think "Godfather" is actually Yuichi's prototype. The excellent ones were produced by extracting the genes of the godfather when he was young, when he was already very good. Youyi is the trump card, there is no rival in the Eternal Son, and the Godfather has grown up and has more experience, and the model he drives is also different from others. From the picture, the sense of metal is stronger, the performance should be better, and there are rich The experience and high performance of the body will naturally not be defeated by the younger self who is relatively poor in both aspects. Naturally, he will not lose to other eternal sons.

This is fate, to be precise, the control of human beings over "war performances". The war show never ends because there is never a winner - when one company has a clear advantage, the godfather goes to another company to "balance" the battle. And the fate of the Eternal Son on the other side is to be killed.

When Yuichi went to the station to report, his comrades-in-arms Tsuchizano, Xuyue, and Yudagawa were not the first time they saw the "Reincarnated" Eternal Son. They all already know that their destiny is the same as Yuichi, and they will only die in battle, reincarnate, die in battle, and reincarnate. From Xu Xue's expression, it can be seen that it is a completely negative, a completely hopeless look. He should have lived a long time, and he has seen many excellent ones, and he is completely numb. The cheerful Tsuchizano is Yuichi's long-time friend. He has also learned many things in this world, such as finding happiness in eternal life, and trying hard to find the feeling that makes him feel that he exists outside the war. He enjoys it. The joy of being with the girls, and the bowling clips show that he's already very skilled, but he's still elated -- or rather elated -- every time he hits. He also knew that he could not touch the "Godfather". Yu Tianchuan is quite special. Maybe his "experience" is not as good as that of Tsuchizano and Xuyue. He still doesn't know how powerful the "Godfather" is, or he still chooses to face it when he knows it well. The result was that Yuichi saw the reincarnated Yudagawa, with the same appearance, the same voice, and even the same habit of folding newspapers. Yuichi saw his shadow. He suddenly understood why he remembered seeing the female groomer, why he seemed to have eaten meat patties from that small shop, why he seemed to have been to that inn, and why he liked Cao Zhi. Because before his reincarnation, he liked Cao Zhi, and it was not just the first him before his reincarnation, because his last term only lived here for 7 months. And Cao Zhi has been here for eight years, she even has a child with him, and the child looks at least seven or eight years old. Two people are destined to fall in love, but there is no result. One person keeps seeing his lover die, and then falls in love with the reincarnated him and then watches him die. What kind of fate is this, how does it feel.

There is a long-running legend in the Eternal Son, since no one has ever defeated the godfather, what if someone kills the godfather? Is it possible to break through the curse of fate from now on? Can everything be completely changed? Yuichi is destined to be special. For the love of Cao Zhi, he decided to seek the answer to this legend again and fight against fate. But in the end, he just got another reincarnation.

There may be another reason why the godfather is Yuichi, that is, "no one can come back alive from the godfather", there is an exception, that is Caozhi, Caozhi went to meet the godfather during a mission, and although he was rejected by the godfather. Shot down, but survived. So maybe the godfather is the prototype of Yuichi, the one who really loves Cao Zhi, the father of Cao Zhi's daughter, and he still loves Cao Zhi deeply.

Going back to the legendary question, what if, what if, Yuichi really killed the godfather? I think maybe Yuichi can get rid of the identity of the "eternal son". The company makes him a normal person like the godfather, but he still has to fly a fighter to fight and replace the godfather to become a more skilled pilot to "balance" the war. To perform, to kill one by one - still a slave to fate.

Going back to our side, in fact, sometimes we are like the eternal sons, at the mercy of "fate", after seeing through society, through politics, and even through life, some people are like Xu Xue , Completely lost hope, lost direction, and "survival" in a hurry; some people are like Tsuchizano, succumbing to fate, and looking for the meaning of their own existence and their own happiness in the rules of fate. You can blame Xuyue's decadence, Tusakino's instant fun, and Yuichi and Yudagawa are the heroes. But what about them who fought against fate? Wasn't the result also crushed to pieces by fate?

The director of the film, Mamoru Oshii, said by the protagonist Yuichi: "Yesterday was different from today, and today and tomorrow will definitely be different. You can choose to take steps in different places when you walk on the road, and the scenery on the road is not static. "There are no empty shouts of justice and clichés of inspirational lines, but quiet and sure hope.

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  • Kaleigh 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    It has been about five or six years since the last time I watched it. I fell asleep last time and cried this time.

  • Theodore 2022-03-17 09:01:09

    How about killing me? Otherwise, we'll be here forever