"Lin" is an original animation in the project of serial experiments lain. The first time I saw this work was a few years ago, but because of its stream-of-consciousness narrative, it was a bit difficult to understand in terms of plot, and even more so in terms of thinking. After I combined some plot interpretations, I gradually understood. As for writing this long review, it was because I was on the second brush recently. The more I watched, the more I liked this animation and the girl lain, and I also summarized my thinking by the way.
I won't say much about the plot of this animation, and I should be able to find the plot analysis. I mainly talk about a few points that inspired me.
Stream of Consciousness Narrative: There are a lot of jumping and splicing of pictures in the animation, which are fragmented, rather obscure, and the tone is cold. At the same time, it also gives people a feeling of depression, combined with monotonous noise, such as the white noise of electric current that often appears in animation. , adding to this oppressive atmosphere. The jumping and splicing of a large number of pictures can also be regarded as the first perspective of other "consciousness" (rather than the aggregate of lain), so this narrative method is also suitable for the content.
Virtual and reality: Whether it is Qiansa who committed suicide in the first episode of the animation, or the "pseudo-god" Yingri Zhengmei after that, they all abandoned their bodies and chose to live in the "cyber world". (In fact, the "connected world" in the work is more like the virtual reality we are talking about now, which is vr. At least lain has a complete body in this connected world.) Qiansa regards the connected world as a place of return, while in animation At the end, Yingri Zhengmei even took "virtual" as a higher level of "reality", and Lingyin retorted that "you can't do anything without a phone, TV, and the Internet." It seems that "reality" is a higher level of "virtual". I think that no matter who is above the other, it is just by virtue of their own consciousness, or one world interferes with another world, and a level of relationship between the two worlds of experience is presupposed, so I want to provide a new point of view: from From the perspective of perception, the relationship between us and the world is to perceive and be perceived, but whether it is perception of reality or perception of virtuality, no one has a higher priority than the other, we can only say that these two The world is "parallel". Compared with reality, our perception of virtuality is just a bunch of wires and instruments, but it is not an extra layer of instruments, and the perception results are more "unreal", because human sensory organs are also "instruments", dig out a sense After the nerve, the perception result will not be "higher" than the original. From the perspective of interference, it can also be seen from the debate between Lingyin and Yingri Zhengmei that reality can interfere with the virtual, and the virtual can also interfere with the reality, and no one is more "fundamental" than the other.
Connection: Yingli Zhengmei wrote Protocol 7, and used the Schumann resonance (the frequency is the same as the resonance frequency of the human hippocampus), allowing people to connect without equipment, so Lingyin, which represents the collective consciousness of all mankind, was born. (I think this theory is very romantic, and I hope that "Lingyin" can really appear) The relationship between people is the connection, and Lingyin is the collective unconscious of human beings, which means that she is the connection itself of human beings. Reine, who has a body in reality, is just a projection in reality of the connection Reine. Historically, the cost of human communication has been decreasing, from walking to meet and exchange information, to using transportation, to writing letters, to PC email and chat software, and finally to mobile phone chat. With the reduction of the cost of information exchange, the peripheral banding ring of the connection between people is getting smaller and smaller, and it is closer to a whole. To make an analogy, it is like a net is held by one hand, and as a The subconscious mind of the background will also converge into a collective, tending to one direction. In the animation, this collective is concretized and personified as Iwakura Reine.
Existence: After Reine erased other people's memories of Alice's privacy, Reine seems to have been wandering the connected world, making her observations. At this time, Reine thinks that she exists to connect everyone together. But in the end Alice found Lingyin, and Lingyin denied Yingri Zhengmei. Lingyin should realize that after connecting all human beings, because the cost of information exchange is almost zero, in this case, personal will is very small, and personal privacy disappears. , (these points should be understood when her friend Alice's privacy was leaked) So I reset the world and no longer serve as the concept of human connection, but Reine believes that she exists in the consciousness of others (when there are believers When I believe that Yingli Zhengmei is a god, Yingli Zhengmei is a god, and it is also reflected here), if she no longer exists as a connection of human beings and clears the memories of other people, then Lingyin will deny the "essence" of her own existence, because her Appearance is to connect with human beings, that is, to have her essence before her existence. So at the end, there was a conversation between the two Lingyin and the appearance of the adoptive father that seemed to symbolize the "True God", all of which were helping him to find the meaning of his existence, and the meaning was "Lingyin likes Alice, and Lingyin likes Alice. Everyone”, and finally Lingyin gave meaning to her own existence, that is, Lingyin chose an essence for herself on the basis of her accepted existence.
In addition, I have seen someone discussing the issue of virtual reality and the Gaia hypothesis a long time ago. Although the result is that virtual reality will become the externalized consciousness of the earth, it is difficult for me not to think of "Ling" Sound" This animation...
In addition to these, Lingyin has a lot to talk about, such as the details of the plot, which can lead to different interpretations of the plot, the evolution of human beings, the transcendence of virtual reality and personality, and the form of expression with pictures and soundtracks. Various details... But because these aspects are not what I focus on, I won't say much. Lingyin is also my first animation for the second brush, and the long review is also my first long review. Let's end with a famous sentence.
persistent day, persistent time.
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