The first season of "Attack on Titan", which was followed in 2013, was also a phenomenal anime at the time. I just finished watching the second and third seasons. Yesterday, the first episode of the fourth season just picked up.
Although I saw the end of the third season, I felt that all the "ideals" and "dreams" that the anime can embody beyond reality have come to an end, including the pursuit of all kinds of will, personality, and even deeper consciousness itself. From simile to straightforward presentation. Until Alan said:
On the other side of the wall, there is the other side of the sea and the sea. It's freedom. I always believed that, but I was wrong. There are enemies on the other side of the sea. No matter what I saw in my memory, it's the same as what I saw in my memory. If you kill all the enemies on that side Can we be free?
That kind of despair, even if you know that this is an animation, a creation, or a fabrication, you cannot come up with a possible ending. Freedom, ideals, yearning, and childhood pursuits, everything is actually despair.
Despair because there is no possible ending to these bewildering questions, there is no way to free ourselves when thinking about them, no one can be at a certain moment, like the moment Armin sees the sea, or we The moment I heard Ellen's question, I could still be as happy and foolish as before.
So here comes the fourth season, and it tells you that there is an ending, there is a way.
The three-dimensional mobile device, the giant, the wall, the town inside the wall, and the survey legion are all obviously fictional and non-existent, and everything on this side of the sea depicted in the fourth season is staggeringly familiar. The beginning of the fourth season OP is bombing, launching, exploding, burning, destroying, and smashing. It is the extreme of violence and destruction currently possessed. The other side of the sea is also the side of the sea, and it is also war, the familiar modern war.
So this is the end and the way. It is telling you that the ending is the world of your own existence here and now, and this world is the world of "freedom" on the other side of the sea.
Armin said in the first season that the arrival of the giants did not turn the world into hell, but the world is hell. So the fourth season is to let us watch this is hell, this hell is terribly familiar, it is in purgatory. Therefore, the first three seasons are metaphors, and the fourth season is documentary; the first three seasons are fictional, and the fourth season is narrative.
So what is a giant, as I said in the first season, a giant is a "human weapon", a power and a tragedy. It is human strength and human tragedy.
I remembered what I read before, "Try on Gao Gao Guan Haoyue, and occasionally look at the red dust with open eyes. Poor body is the person in your eyes." The previous self, Shang Gao Guan Hao Yue opened the sky and looked at the red dust, and in the fourth season, I found that I was one of them.
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