Text: Liu Luwei (singer-songwriter, music producer, guitarist, recording mixer, and founder of Soul Relief) recalls the era when he was obsessed with comics and wandered around every day in various bookstores and was repeatedly driven out. Few works were like the parasitic beast. It allows me to experience the wonderful experience of curiosity, horror, heart-wrenching, moving to deep thinking in reading, and to different age groups, each time I read it, I have a new experience, and I can better understand the author's good intentions in each plot and line. . I'm usually busy, but I always feel sorry for this work for not writing anything, so I come to join in the fun to write some analysis and thoughts, and update it slowly when I think of it. 【Tamura Reiko】 The role of Tamura Reiko is the key to interpreting the core connotation of this work. Let's start with her. Like Xiao You, she belongs to the "abnormal" among parasites. They are all smart and eager to learn. After watching the whole film, although Xiao You (and Shinichi) are the protagonists, in terms of intelligence, they are still inferior to Tamura Reiko. The author's setting is very interesting: the smartest person is not the protagonist but a character who looks like a villain. The reader, like Xiaoyou, always can't keep up with Tamura Reiko's pace, and can't understand what she is thinking, she thinks doing what. Her status among parasites is like a thinker and a philosopher among humans. When others of the same kind were just acting on biological instincts, she was already thinking about philosophical questions such as "who we are, where do we come from, where are we going, and what is the meaning of our existence". She is very intelligent and capable, and Goto is the product of her experiments; the one-to-three battle shows that she has already started experimenting with clones and mastered them well; the reason why the mayor of Hirokawa, as a human being, can also fight with a group of parasites The creatures were in a ball, and she must have arranged it in the middle, or she was the one who contacted Guangchuan first. She is fully capable of being the leader of this group of parasites, but she doesn't seem to be interested in power, and has always been outside the core of power. First of all, doing things is out of curiosity, to satisfy the nature of self-inquiry, rather than for worldly material rewards. This is also a quality shared by heroes among people. She has been "protecting" Shinichi, keeping other parasites away from Shinichi and suspending killing Shinichi, just because she is curious about the "special case" of Shinichi and Xiaoyou? In fact, not only that, Shinichi has a special meaning for her "plan", which will be analyzed later. [The meaning of the existence of parasites? 】 What is the significance of the existence of parasites? No one has more profound thinking and understanding of this issue than her. Like all her kind, at the beginning of her birth, her instinct told her that the meaning of existence was to prey on the "species" of humans. They think humans are too weak, too deceitful, too easy to be preyed on. Parasitic creatures have intelligence and individual combat power far higher than ordinary humans, as well as the ability to adapt to the environment. These creatures are more advanced than humans in all aspects, but why have they searched all the information, but can't find any information about them? How about a description of your own type of creature? She wondered how parasites differed from other known creatures on Earth. The most obvious point is that parasites themselves have no gender distinctions and sexual characteristics. She was curious about the reproductive behavior of humans, and she acted with A, and it turned out that even the offspring of two creatures with parasitic heads were humans - parasites can't reproduce! list of signs The parasites should not be the product of natural evolution. Although it is not known who created them, some higher organisms should have created them for some purpose. Their existence is not an accidental random event, it is meaningful , she must think so. As for her understanding of human beings, like Xiao You, she once believed that if there is an existence in this world that is closest to the word "devil", it is human. In the eyes of humans, parasites, although extremely terrifying, hunt and kill only for satiety and self-defense, just like other creatures that can live in harmony with nature. And human selfishness and desires are like a bottomless black hole. They have not enough to get what they need in life, and they have to waste it. They don't know how to cherish or be grateful. evil deeds. Contempt and disgust for human beings, coupled with an instinctive appetite for human flesh, constituted her (and all her kind) attitudes towards humans at first, and she may have thought that eradicating humans was the meaning of parasite existence. However, unlike others of the same kind, she will think: How did human beings develop to the point where they are today? Why have humans been (or have been) at the top of the food chain? What is the superiority of human beings over other creatures? Is it "feeling"? The fact that her host's mother realized that she was no longer a daughter touched her a lot. Humans are not as simple as she thought. Parasites are emotionless at first, and in the process of treating her children, she gradually felt the subtle connection between mother and child - family affection. She herself also tried to have feelings, to imitate human expressions, human smiles. She also learned that another advantage of human beings over other creatures is that human beings will "sacrifice their lives", which is a behavior that other creatures, including parasites, have difficulty understanding. After the same kind killed the detective's wife and children by mistake, she said one sentence: You have made a big mistake, you don't understand human beings at all. She knew that the detective who had lost his wife and children would definitely come to take revenge with the determination to die. Originally, she thought that the same kind were simple-minded and purposeful, and could be closely united for a common purpose, but then she discovered that, like all other creatures, there are huge individual differences between different individuals of parasites. Parasites are not monolithic, each has its own small abacus, and there will also be differences and contradictions. The so-called consortium will also split and even kill each other. If things go on like this, will the evils that exist in human nature, such as uncontrolled greed, etc., also exist in parasitic creatures? A single human being is very weak compared to parasites and can only be slaughtered, so other parasites are Don't care about humans at all. But after studying history and understanding human society, she knows that although human beings are completely weak in the confrontation with parasites at present, when human beings unite, they will produce great wisdom and power enough to destroy parasites. One day will come sooner or later. If the meaning of the existence of parasites is to be the natural enemy of human beings and maintain the ecological balance of the earth by reducing the number of human beings, this goal is obviously unattainable with the development of human counterattacks. She also tried to clone herself and get out of the human body, but she didn't survive for long; the parasites couldn't reproduce, and if they ate all the humans, they would perish themselves. Later, she even discovered that parasites can actually survive without eating people, which subverted her initial understanding, and she had to rethink what it means to have to live in symbiosis with humans. [Death of Tamura Reiko] She thought she was on a mission, but she didn't know how to achieve it, so she tried from many aspects. Goto, Hirokawa, Shinichi, these are all part of her many experimental attempts. As her understanding of human beings and her understanding of parasites continued to deepen, she gradually foresaw that the "Goto Road" and "Guangchuan Road" would not work, so she finally chose the "Xinyi Road". Thinking you've found the answer, it's time to practice your beliefs. The wisdom of human beings is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they have achieved the status of self-proclaimed "soul of all things", and on the other hand, they have become the biggest sinners who destroy the earth. The existence of parasites is not to eliminate humans, but to allow humans to see themselves more deeply through parasites, "Humans have been enslaving and killing other creatures. If humans in turn become the prey of higher creatures, it will How?" Maybe only in this way will human beings learn to look at problems from the perspective of other creatures, learn to let go of their arrogance, restrain their desires, and see their position on the earth clearly. But if humans only regard parasites as monsters that can only eat people, they will not regard parasites as intelligent creatures that are the same as themselves (or even higher than themselves), and it is impossible to listen and understand calmly. information transmitted by parasites. So there needs to be something to prove that parasites are the same existence as humans, parasites will have feelings, and even parasites will have the most noble quality of human beings - sacrifice one's life for justice! It takes a parasite to give his life to prove it, and that person can only be - yourself! Why must it be her? She foresaw the backlash of humans and the retreat of parasites, but she definitely did not Life lost hope for the future and chose to commit suicide. With her wisdom and ability, she can easily escape this catastrophe, and she can live and live well. Why did she have to sacrifice? Because she was the first to have this kind of consciousness. She chose her own way of death-what an ironic scene: the police did not hesitate to shoot the human baby in her arms in order to eliminate her "extraordinary", and she, a man-eating monster who could have been completely out of the siege, Died to protect human babies! So why did she have to call Xinyilai and have him present? She cannot die in vain, she will use her own sacrifice to achieve two goals. First, in front of these humans, to prove that parasitic beasts can sacrifice their lives for justice. But that's not enough, an important eyewitness is needed, and this person is Izumi Shinichi - the only one she knows that retains the human brain, a perfect example of how parasites and human hosts can coexist in harmony. This Izumi Shinichi is the connection A bridge between parasites and humans! If she herself conveys those ideas to humans, no one will believe her, a monster who has eaten dozens of people. But Izumi Shinichi, except for his right hand, is an ordinary human being, and his words should convince humans. But according to her long-term observation, since Xinyi's mother was killed and a part of his body merged with Xiaoyou, he has become more and more "inhuman". This ordinary human being has become more and more like a parasitic creature. The more ruthless, even lost the ability to cry. So, the second purpose was that she wanted to use her own death to awaken Shinichi's human feelings. When she was walking towards Shinichi next to the bullet, Shinichi wanted to run away, she thought, Shinichi, you can't go, It makes no sense for you to leave. For this reason, she turned her face into Shinichi's dead mother, and this intuitive visual signal finally retained Shinichi. Tamura Reiko died of blood loss. The cry of the baby reminded him of the connection between himself and his mother, his mother's dedication to him, and the guilt and sadness that his mother's death brought him. Finally, he can shed tears again. His human feelings are back. Reiko Tamura smiled reassuringly before she died because she believed her mission had been accomplished, which she said felt good. It's a pity that we know that Shinichi lived up to her expectations. Until the city government wiped out a large number of parasitic organisms in World War I, he never stood up and spoke as Tamura Reiko expected. Maybe he was just trying to protect himself, and he was also protecting the young right. Maybe he didn't trust the human government. In short, he didn't do it. In fact, from another point of view, this also reflects the author's shrewdness. For a high school student, without such great courage and such high consciousness, it will appear more real and less didactic (human beings). They are all arrogant, and they don’t like being reasoned with by others.) Along the way, Xinyi also encountered too many misfortunes, and finally encountered Goto and Urakami. It can be said that he also paid the price. The most important thing is whether we, as readers, understand what the author wants to express through the work.
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