When it comes to late-night animations, there are not many quiet ones like Lingyin. The background is a dazzling white, and the trick of repeating the background is more economical than EVA, but it is not annoying at all. Every animation that looks alternative and non-mainstream to many people is mostly incomprehensible to them. For example, EVA, such as FLCL, after reading it, I searched for comments on the Internet. I hope that some god, man, nature, or man will quickly go down to earth and make various reasonable explanations for himself, and then leave a name in his post, saying that he worships the gods.
In fact, Japanese animation is not that difficult. Or maybe what Kamito sees is different from mortals like me. I can always see simple things in complex plots.No matter how obscure the plot is, the plot will never leave the realm of people (if you say that it rises to the realm of God, I will be speechless), so all art is human-oriented, and what we see is only the people in it, confused and confused. Anxiety, restlessness, growth. Lingyin is no exception. even if you could call it a masterpiece.
Abe's characters are very cute. Lingyin was wearing a cute bear pajama set and stayed away from the computer. Don't touch the computer, and don't even know what email is. It's all because of the suicide of a classmate, Qiansha. She gave up her body, pinned everything on the Internet, and sent emails to others in this way. Out of curiosity, Lingyin finally started to surf the Internet and read Qiansha's emails. This is where it all started.
At first, Lingyin was very silent, and even her family members treated her with indifference. Only her father, who was a computer engineer, occasionally cared about Lingyin. I don't have any friends at school; I just walk alone on the way to and from school, and I have to run away when I see a strange sight. Under the premise of this loneliness, it is also expected to be interested in the letter mailed from the dead world. Lingyin opened the letter, and Qiansha said a strange sentence, "There is a god here." If you give up your body, you will get such pure freedom.
Gradually, Lingyin also began to understand the superiority that machinery could bring. In the network, she can be loved by everyone, and she doesn't have to be ignored like in reality. Step by step into the swamp of the network She finally meets the self-proclaimed "God" after she connects herself to the web. She becomes part of the network and can change other people's memories at will, gaining abilities that are not available in reality. And just when she was about to identify with "God", Alice went to her house to find her. On the premise that both her parents and sister left Reine, she walked into Reine's house, which had almost become a nest. "Plop. Plop. Plop." The sound of her heart beating finally made Reine rebel against God. Erase all memories of myself.
"Reality and the Internet are different." Alice said firmly. Even though she was afraid of Reine's appearance of connecting to the computer, she still looked at Reine very seriously and said so. The network is a projection of human beings themselves. Many people believe that their gods exist on the Internet, and that as long as they have access to the Internet, they can give up everything, but this is impossible.Like Plato's spiritual love, it proved unworkable. We are human. We must know pain because we fall, and we must know sadness because we have been hurt. Because the body is the abode of the soul, it is impossible for us to leave the body and reach the pure spiritual realm, which is impossible and unrealistic.
If there is no material, only the spirit, then how can you see the tears I miss you? How can I understand your red eyes for me? The pure spiritual love that we fantasize about does not exist, and communication without the physical body is not perfect. If it wasn't for Alice's heartbeat, which was fast because of fear, would Reine be bewildered by God, and she would treat herself as a screw in the network and lose herself? Maybe. But fortunately, we saw that Lingyin's sentence "Didn't you say that the body is unnecessary?" completely defeated the gods on the Internet.
Because there is no God. Indeed, it is more difficult to believe in yourself than to believe in something as simple as believing in God. Believe that you can truly communicate with others without relying on God's gift. Like Qiansha and Lingyin, they are the kinds of marginal girls who don't know how to communicate with others easily, so they pin everything on things that don't exist. And when Lingyin finally understood the fictional nature of God, God really disappeared from the online world and became an angry young man.
So many words and images discuss the existence of human beings. After Lingyin erased herself from everyone's memory, she began to doubt her existence and crouched in the empty street and cried. History does not exist if no one remembers it. Although this statement is not Marxist enough, it is true for human beings. If no one knows, the truth does not exist in human memory; that is, it does not exist. Another Lingyin, as a self on the Internet, said to herself, "Isn't this the ending you want?" All people do not exist, all people disappear, and you yourself watch everyone as God. But that's not true. Rather than manipulating other people's memories in the illusory online world, Reine prefers Alice, who can easily talk to herself without contact.
I wanted to get in touch with you all, and found that just being in touch is not enough. To get to know you more deeply, understanding is not enough. I want to be with you. Go deeper and deeper. The father, who had always cared about Lingyin, after leaving her, sat down and asked her, "Do you like everyone?" Lingyin cried desperately. I kept hoping this would help me get to know you better, only to find that it pushed our relationship even further. I wanted to do something for Alice, only to find that I was still that stupid girl who couldn't do well no matter what. In fact, it's better to just talk. Wouldn't it be alright if we just couldn't communicate? Reine prefers those warm touches to the empty connections on the internet; it's Alice holding her hand. At the end of the film, everything returns to its original state. When Alice and her teacher were about to get married, she saw Reine again. The two greeted each other gently and said that they might meet again in the future.
Abe said that this is an experimental animation. There have even been episodes in which half-sentence animations use music as the background music without a single line of dialogue. It can almost be compared to the 40-second freeze frame in EVA. I always feel that what EVA discusses is also very simple, that is, the word "growth." Although a lot of people have been fooled by psychology, religious terms, and the future axis of the world. Lingyin is also the same, exposing the various problems of post-modern people relying on the Internet to communicate. When the world is empty, lost, lonely, and crowded, we must rely on our minds to solve problems. Good work is always a space for people to think. I believe Lingyin has been successfully tested. nod.
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